Sentence examples for preferred someone else from inspiring English sources

Instead, the most conservative elements of the Republican Party's base expressed their unease with Mr. Romney by sending a resounding message that they preferred someone else.

Can we agree that what happened in Virginia was simply the consequence of voters who preferred someone else over Cantor?

If the guy doesn't like you at all, or has told you that he prefers someone else, then it is preferable to distance one's self instead of pushing one's self to the guy.

While Romney led the party pack with 21%, some 74% of Republican primary voters said they would prefer someone else to be the nominee.

And two Illinois lawmakers from the Chicago area -- Representatives Mike Quigley, a more liberal lawmaker, and Daniel Lipinski, a moderate -- joined those who said they would prefer someone else at the helm.

But it says something about impatient N.B.A. owners and executives that they prefer someone else to validate their talent for them instead of going with someone unproven as an established winner.

I had an uncle and aunt who were teachers, but neither my mum nor dad went to university and my overwhelming memory of school is that the teachers always seemed to prefer someone else who was a bit cleverer.

She turned 16 in May but still prefers someone else to do the driving on the three-hour commute from Long Island to her practices in Hackensack, N.J. "I am begging for her to learn how to drive," Wagner said.

There's nothing wrong with that; but you do need to remember that if a job applicant gives even the slightest impression of disdaining a job, then whoever's doing the interviewing is almost certainly going to prefer someone else.

And President Bush has made it clear that when it comes to rebuilding Afghanistan, he prefers someone else do the heavy lifting (though it seems likely that the United States will be stuck with much of the task).

It will be because I prefer someone else".