Sentence examples for preferred settling from inspiring English sources

Baseball would have preferred settling all of the doping cases stemming from the investigation into Biogenesis, an anti-aging clinic that is believed to have distributed banned substances to baseball players.

As former Northern Alliance commander Moammar Hassan said to me during our talk in Taloqan earlier in my journey, the bribery-infested Afghan justice system had frustrated citizens so much that many actually preferred settling their disputes with the Taliban's traveling sharia law courts instead of relying on the government.

It prefers settling on hard, chalky surfaces.

Many defendants would prefer settling for a few dollars over incurring legal costs of going to trial.

The Japanese populace at the other islands grew at a slower rate although less so for Chuuk, and Japanese tend to prefer settling in low-lying areas like Tomil and Tol.

Initially the banks preferred to settle out of court, and hoped that few others would bother to take legal action.

He told Bloomberg that he would have preferred to settle the matter at trial, but that he wanted to leave Germany "with passably positive impressions".

The Andy Griffith Show's Andy Taylor (played by Andy Griffith), for example, was known on the show as "the sheriff without a gun," and he preferred to settle disputes with homespun good sense rather than brute force.

Before one sparring session last month, members of the entourage arrived early, fetched towels, cleared the gym and debated what type of Gatorade their employer would prefer, finally settling on orange.

Of those still in the pool of plaintiffs, several who sat for a recent interview in their lawyer's office said that they would have preferred to settle, but that they had gotten no satisfaction from the compensation fund, administered by Kenneth R. Feinberg, a lawyer in Washington.

Another option is the permanent transfer, which families sometimes prefer because settling into a new country for the long term can eliminate or minimize stress over whether the spouse or partner should try to adapt or just wait out the assignment.