Sentence examples for preference to play from inspiring English sources

Other times, he spoke of a preference to play for a defensive-minded team.

"If he is now asserting his preference to play college football, he cannot show he has been injured by the N.F.L. rule," Roberts said in a telephone interview.

Expect a considerably more open game due to Sherwood's preference to play 4-4-2, with Roberto Soldand and Emmanuel Adebayor as his front pair.

Modric was surprisingly clear in expressing his preference to play as a central midfielder on Monday and the following day Mourinho was adamant that the Croat was not bought on a whim.

Knicks officials feared that Anthony — despite his well-known preference to play here — would sign the extension in Denver, or in New Jersey or some other city if they did not get him now.

The inclusion of Ballance in the squad last Thursday caught most observers by surprise, not least because the England head coach, Trevor Bayliss, had hinted at a preference to play Ben Stokes as a specialist batsman in place of the dropped Nick Compton, despite the all-rounder having not bowled since undergoing knee surgery at the end of May.

Susan Dimock (1999), on the other hand, defends the non-tuism assumption on grounds that to allow positive tuistic preferences to play a role in bargaining on morality and justice is to allow individuals to be exploited for their fellow feelings.

Kidney said: "Keith's stated preference is he prefers to play at 13 but Brian (O'Driscoll) is not one to give it up too easily.

"Nathan is a six or eight and while we could play him at seven, our preference is to play him at six and eight.

Matsui has said his preference is to play shortstop in the major leagues, at least eventually, though that could be negotiated.

"I'm not even going to speculate on anything with the Yankees, because I play for the Orioles," said Surhoff, who repeated that his first preference is to play for Baltimore now and in the future.