Sentence examples for preferred that it from inspiring English sources

If the poem could not be published in its "right" form, then he preferred that it not be published at all.

"We would have preferred that it had come from the plane and that we had some information," he said.

If Southeast Asia was going to be lost to Communism, they preferred that it be on another President's head.

As for the registration requirement, Ms. Herman said she would have preferred that it be optional, but she doesn't view it as a major deterrent.

"Now if you look at it coolly, in retrospect, at this point," Nixon said in a 1983 interview, "certainly we would have preferred that it not be done.

Her only problem with the outcome, she said, was the public release of the judgment; she'd have preferred that it remain confidential.

workers preferred that arrangement because it gave them more freedom.

So if you prefer that sound, it's fine, but you're essentially fetishising a flaw.

Mr Bush might prefer that, but it really will not do, and not only for humanitarian reasons.

If an army marches on its stomach, General Stanley McChrystal would prefer that it wasn't full of burgers and pizzas.

"I prefer that it be very emotional.