Sentence examples for preferred he was from inspiring English sources

Rather than seeking to scrap the whole notion of "disparate impact" law, as some of his more conservative colleagues would have preferred, he was content to restrict the scope of its application.

He no longer had the independence he preferred; he was required to produce two coloured pages a week for Leblanc's magazine a tall order.

When the South African War broke out he volunteered for service with the South Australian Bushmen's Corps, but mounted officers were preferred, and he was not selected.

"Americans prefer Europeans, and Europeans prefer Europeans," he was told.

Mr Cantor was smoothly evasive about which cuts he prefers, but he was smiling and pleasant throughout the exchange.

"I would prefer if he was on one leg," Jones said, joking.

Paul, according to reports, gave Rose a list of teams he preferred if he were traded.

I'd have preferred that he be a professor of mathematics.

One young father [Farmer, 20 yrs., NR] preferred homebirths because he was born at home.

"He's the man Brahimi prefers and he is acceptable to the administration," said the official.

If we must have an extremist, we prefer that he be incompetent.