Sentence examples for preferable to him from inspiring English sources

It's infinitely preferable to him shifting uncomfortably in his seat or being actively hostile.

Surely having him meet a different handler just once would have been preferable to him being shot.

And because Paul couldn't speak, you had to assure the do-gooder that Paul wanted to have his arms held down - it allowed him to concentrate on opening his mouth - and that the "unhygienic" finger-poking was preferable to him lacerating his mouth on a spoon, and - oh, and just piss off, you ignorant, interfering cretin who is ruining what small pleasure Paul can take in lunchtime.

The latter is preferable to him.

Putin's aim is to keep the war going as long as possible and he intends to invade other countries, so to keep him mired in Ukraine is preferable to him sweeping through Ukraine and then attacking the next place.

For the president's opponents, gridlock is preferable to allowing him a victory.

It would be preferable to see him do a simple ball fake without the extreme body movement.

It also emerged that MacAskill had formally asked the US embassy in London for permission to release a letter written earlier this month, which said the US government believed that giving Megrahi compassionate release was "far preferable" to transferring him to serve the rest of his sentence in a Libyan jail under the prisoner transfer agreement ratified by the UK government in April.

Obama's administration has refused to allow publication of the letter, in which the US says allowing Megrahi to live at home in Scotland would be "far preferable" to sending him back to Libya under the prisoner transfer deal brokered by former prime minister Tony Blair in 2007.

A big fee would be preferable to losing him for nothing next summer.

The Times, however, obtained a letter the Obama Administration sent to Scotland a week before the event in which it said that releasing Megrahi on "compassionate grounds" was acceptable as long as he was kept in Scotland and would be "far preferable" to sending him back to Libya.