Sentence examples for preferable to just from inspiring English sources

But spinning can be preferable to just falling flat: at the end of that crazy week, we weren't so far from where we started.

It is an admission not just of failure, but of fear of failure: through the play the coach expresses his doubt in his team's ability to move the ball the requisite number of yards, and the belief that it is preferable to just give the ball to the other team and play for position rather than making them take it.

Some suggest that it is preferable to just equip your child with a credit card ― something that never goes out of style ― and let her buy what she needs once she has experienced what freezing really feels like.

… While it would be preferable to just do … two and a half days … it ends up being easier, in terms of seeing people again.

They demonstrated that for scanning four mice, combined axial and radial displacement is preferable to just radial displacement, as the latter leads to higher noise and spillover ratios and lower RCs.

First, benefits that phase out gradually (as the earned-income tax credit currently does) are preferable to benefits that just disappear abruptly when you pass an income threshold — or when your learning-disabled child starts mastering the ABCs.

The understanding that unity is preferable to individuality is just as inherent as our egoism.

American hegemony is preferable to fundamentalist Islamist hegemony, just as it was preferable to Soviet hegemony.

In headlinese, where compression is key, "murder suspect" is preferable to "alleged murderer" (or, just as bad, "suspected murderer").A so-called "indicted criminal" has an even stronger complaint than an "alleged criminal".

"Asal" features a Muslim woman, Gulia, caught in the tide of educated immigrants arriving in America "to scrub toilets and change sheets", the petty humiliations of her present life being, as always, just preferable to the horrors left at home, where news that her husband's other wife has doused herself in kerosene in a fit of jealousy is nothing terribly out of the ordinary.

However, because a supplemental elimination is likely to occur during hemodialysis, it seems preferable to administrate the drug just after the end of the hemodialysis session.