Sentence examples for preferable status from inspiring English sources

The preferable status of intrahepatic lesions, that is, no lesions or only a single (<3 cm) intrahepetic lesion, was positively associated with good prognosis and negatively associated with disease progression in the SFN group.

We are skeptical of the likelihood and benefit of significant competition with Fannie and Freddie, so prefer the latter alternative, but either course is preferable to the status quo or a return to the old duopoly.

Not that this means any kind of differentness is automatically preferable to the status quo.

But though we favour its abolition, a reformed monarchy is preferable to the status quo.

Nor does it mean that hastily-arrived-at solutions, even ones that are labelled "grand bargain," are necessarily preferable to the status quo.

But that's preferable to the status quo before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, when insurers could cancel policies on a whim.

AV, which is no such thing, may be preferable to the status quo in their eyes, but not by a big enough margin to get them excited.

But a system with safeguards, begun as a pilot to resolve ethical and practical aspects, is surely preferable to the status quo that allows thousands to die each year.

Any is likely preferable to the status quo, which gave rise to the current map's racially skewed configuration; it packs African American voters into districts around Richmond and Hampton Roads, thereby diminishing their overall electoral muscle while keeping adjacent districts more heavily white — and Republican.

In fact, Mr Summers reckons that while fiscal policy is the first best means to address stagnation, using higher inflation to reduce real interest rates and boost private demand is a clear second best, preferable to the status quo (and certainly to doing nothing at all).My sense is that Mr Summers reckons the inflation strategy is not as easy to deploy successfully as I make it out to be.

The problem is that there are no options that appear preferable to the status quo ante enjoyed by the United Kingdom.