With Hispanic Catholics, it's the opposite: a clear preference for Obama, with 71percentt preferring him, compared to 23percentt for Romney.
I prefer him to go for a fourth place than try to be second and crash.
But the case for preferring him to quit sooner rather than later is one based on the gradual erosion of that ability as time passes and the power of patronage disappears.
Mothers with children under 18 at home split even more heavily for Jones, preferring him to Moore by 34 points, according to exit polling.
He said they would have preferred for him to have been tried as war criminal.
"That's all their shoes!" This is the kind of joke that reminds me that he traces his gay pedigree back to "Will & Grace," and not, as I might have preferred for him, White and Genet.
He said that she preferred for him to work in a job with more structure and without so much discretion.
The wise or virtuous person acts with a view to obtaining preferred items and avoiding their opposites, but it is as an expression of his perfected reason that acts of selection are good, not because they secure, or tend to secure, preferred items for him or protect, or tend to protect, him from their dispreferred opposites.
Reading Snowden's well-formulated answers, it was easy to imagine why the Obama Administration, and the national-security apparatus, might prefer for him to stay in Russia, rather than have him come home and make his case on a more regular basis.
Eighteenth-century deists believed there was a God but, tellingly, they frequently preferred synonyms for him — "Almighty Being" or "Divine Author" (Washington) or "a Superior Agent" (Jefferson).
