Sentence examples for preferred effort from inspiring English sources

The parameter c* thus corresponds to the a priori preferred effort level for the couple, and it plays a key role in the analysis.

He disfavored imprisonment of convicts except for murder, preferring efforts to reform criminals through labor; he also opposed courts-martial for military deserters.

But surveys show a majority of voters against a confrontational or retaliatory stance against North Korea, preferring efforts at peaceful coexistence, according to the New York Times of June 2.

So, prevention is to be preferred over efforts at cure.

Mr. Abbas prefers the effort led by the French, who have traditionally been more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, and he must maneuver carefully to keep the Russians from pointing at him as the obstacle to peace, analysts said.

He seems to prefer our efforts to love those who are different over our efforts to seek righteous sameness.

(Some, apparently believing they could force more water out with extra effort, preferred to rhythmically smack the button).

Have one-an-others backs, preferring good efforts -- and wanting each to win their "events", whether in business or other just causes.

The use of the highest available resolution has always been preferred and many efforts have been made to maximize the information content of data and thus improve its predictive power and reduce the costs of maintenance of hydrometric sensor networks.

Overall, the data obtained from the reward magnitude and delay-to-reward manipulations were indistinguishable; subjects experiencing low-response effort requirement behaved in a risk-indifferent manner and subjects experiencing high-response effort requirement preferred the variable schedule.

Conversation was a chore for him; it required an effort he preferred to expend at the lab.