Sentence examples for preferred negotiations from inspiring English sources

The anti-Taliban forces here have preferred negotiations over fighting with the Taliban, since members of both sides come from the same Pashtun ethnic group.

Louis R. Tomson, a longtime aide to Mr. Pataki and now the president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, said that government officials who preferred negotiations to arguments were sometimes unfairly tagged as disloyal.

The Admiral of Castile preferred negotiations and exhausting all the possible peaceful options first.

While the court party preferred negotiations, Gaunt and Buckingham urged a large-scale campaign to protect English possessions.

Unlike his Venezuelan counterpart, however, Lula preferred negotiation to confrontation and refused to amend the constitution so he could run endlessly for office.

Even before he succeeded Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, Mr Abbas stood out as a man of peace who preferred negotiation to violence, whereas Mr Arafat, at least in most Israeli eyes, had always juggled the two.

He used his influence with the Ministry of Labour to pressurise companies who refused to employ West Indians, but generally preferred negotiation to confrontation, an approach that was often successful.

The downside to all of this is that sometimes companies and executives will prefer negotiations as an ostensible excuse to favor a preferred bidder at the expense of shareholders.

The conservatives prefer negotiations between trade unions and leaders in each sphere of economic activity.

Do they prefer negotiations, a strong defense, modernization and trade, or an emphasis on China — or some combination of these choices?

But Mr. Abbas has made clear that he would prefer negotiations over an appeal to the United Nations this September, the other path he has been pursuing.