Brad Stevens, the 34-year-old Butler coach who preferred a long-term contract to stay at the homespun Indianapolis college through the 2021-22 season rather than auction himself to go elsewhere after the Bulldogs' 61-59 loss to Duke in the N.C.A.A. championship game.
Though military leaders would have preferred a long-term scientific study before rolling out the program Army-wide, they had to act quickly and rely on the best available evidence, Platt said.
Most now prefer a long list of journal articles to a second thesis.
Others prefer a long commute so that they can enjoy the culture and nightlife in cities like Bonn, Cologne and Düsseldorf.
While as eager as any to see him punished, they prefer a long trial at which the details of the atrocities they suffered can be fully aired.
For all her devotion, she refused Churchill's repeated offers of an electoral pact, preferring a long electoral winter to the end of principle.
In 1869 The Real Estate Record and Guide predicted that the "average American is not prepared to live openly in part of a house" and would prefer a long commute to the suburbs.
"Despite all the talk of the death of the book because of competition from other media," she says, "people who love to read appear to prefer a long and immersive narrative, the very opposite of a sound bite or snippets of information that we all spend our lives downloading from Google.
In contrast, a remote environment monitoring system prefers a long lifetime of years with a low duty cycle.
I know some people prefer a long checkbook style wallet, or carry a trifold, but I've always been a fan of the bifold style.
As shown in Fig. 2, the STM tip has a rapid decrease in curvature over a short distance which is required by surface probing, while the needle electrode prefers a long and gradual taper towards the apex which helps to reduce the fluctuation in the surface electric field.
