While union leaders would prefer killing the tax, some say privately that they could live with it if the threshold is lifted to $27,000, say, or $30,000.
"I have heard it suggested that the Obama administration somehow prefers killing Al Qaeda members rather than capturing them," said John O. Brennan, in a speech last year when he was the president's counterterrorism adviser; he is now the C.I.A. director.
According to Media Metrix, a company that measures Internet and digital media use, nearly 50percentt of Web site gamers are over 30 and prefer killing time with classics like hearts, bridge, checkers, backgammon and bingo.
He is quoted as saying, of the reason for choosing to assist the Belgian military operations, that "I prefer killing Arabs in the interior to killing time at Boma".
Once again, workers are at the mercy of companies that prefer killing jobs to the "burden" of paying a living wage, but they face even greater constraints than their counterparts on the mainland.
The term "immobilisation" (where the victim is no longer capable of movement or retaliation) is preferred to "killing" because in some accipitrids at least, if the prey is suitably immobilised and subdued, the raptor will commence feeding even before the death of its victim [6] [8].
Megadeth preferred to kill with speed and precision instead of size and power".
They'd prefer to kill me".
Yet the reason that some people with guns prefer to kill some people who use pens is always the same: because it is effective.
And we are all targets -- "soft" targets, since the terrorists (not unlike the air forces of World War II) prefer to kill civilians.
"Personally," he muttered, inspecting the half-assembled laser sight, "I prefer to kill people at close range, when I can see their faces.
