Sentence examples for preferred friendly from inspiring English sources

In Latin America, the United States has long preferred friendly faces in presidential palaces, playing reliable roles, whether or not they are wearing uniforms.

According to this insight, postmenopausal women in the present study preferred friendly-looking male faces as much as premenopausal or young women did.

They prefer "friendly amateurs".

He has also mortified the Japanese corporate establishment, which greatly prefers "friendly" -- that is, silent -- shareholders.

At a minimum though, it shows that tightly bound into the nature of our developing minds is the ability to make sense of the world in terms of motivations, and a basic instinct to prefer friendly intentions over malicious ones.

Hypothesis 3 Pregnant women prefer friendly-looking faces more than nonpregnant women do.

Therefore, in comparison with nonpregnant women, they should weakly prefer sexy-looking male faces and strongly prefer friendly-looking faces.

The only prediction not supported by our results was that pregnant women would strongly prefer friendly-looking faces.

Confirmation is needed for the supposition that pregnant women who are not receiving satisfactory care would strongly prefer friendly-looking faces.

Abbey National P.L.C. refused to rule out a hostile bid for Bank of Scotland but reiterated that it preferred a friendly takeover deal.

One can certainly argue that the Kremlin would have preferred a friendly government in Ukraine under President Viktor Yanukovych to control over Crimea and a hostile government in Kiev.