The closure is also partly influenced by the fact that on-site commenting is no longer many users' preferred means of discourse.
The irony is that inviting everybody to travel when they prefer means fewer planes arrive or depart on time.
The bike, her preferred means of travel, was an essential part of her life.
He said a mansion tax was still the Lib Dems' preferred means of getting more tax out of the wealthy.
I don't know what the C-word is in Cantonese, but according to the subtitles it was Mary's preferred means of addressing Pai.
Women who were interested in participating returned a reply slip to the researcher, which included preferred means of communication (i.e. telephone, email).
The survey included an item asking whether respondents would be willing to be contacted for an interview, and if so, to provide their name and preferred means of initial contact.
Given the much higher total carbon storage (emission reduction potential) of forests on peat (Table 1), and lower opportunity cost of foregoing peatland development, limiting further conversion of peat would seem a preferred means to reconcile economic growth and emissions reduction.
Well, the truly rich would prefer means-testing, since they would end up sacrificing no more than the merely well-off.
For continuous variables with asymmetrical distributions, median and range (or interquartile range) are preferred to mean and SD.
