Sentence examples for preference for us from inspiring English sources

"The mayor expressed a preference for us to stay downtown, but it was not a demand".

Across the board, the military pledged their preference for US equipment but professed an inability to influence the process.

"There's a preference for us to really do something worthwhile with this technology".

Amid a bass-heavy Jawsy John Williams score, it's mainly a race against time and the desperate hope for the flaw that usually saves the human race, like the film Triffids' fatal water allergy or (until recently) the Daleks' strong preference for terrorising us in bungalows.

My boyfriend and I have tried to gently suggest that we go to a restaurant instead, or participate in an activity that is not oriented around food, like visiting a museum or going hiking, but she remains adamant in her preference for having us over (oddly enough, as she is a full-time lawyer and it's obvious that she doesn't particularly enjoy cooking).

Just as our innate preference for sweet things served us brilliantly in driving us to seek out energy-giving foods back in the good old days before we were surrounded by cheap sweets, SSS also somewhat backfires in the modern world.

In fact, however, industry's preference for Securities and Exchange Commission rulemaking tells us far more about inadequacies in the SEC's regulatory approach than it does about any imagined flaws in the DOL rule proposal.

I'm also not claiming that men shouldn't shave or wax or laser their bodies if that's what they prefer, but I would like to at least raise the question of why hairlessness is the preference for so many of us and address the stigma that often comes with being hairy.

And what does our preference for certain integers say about us?

Small Talk's preference for lazy stereotyping had led us to hope you might say pies … Yeah, I do like the odd pie, but no – I won't be eating those during the Olympics.

How he can so blithely dismiss a boy of obvious talent in preference for runners - God help us - is a question that everybody at Hampden should ask just as soon as they stop beating their head against the wall in disbelief at his comments.