Sentence examples for preferred the position from inspiring English sources

Friends said that Mr. Kempthorne preferred the position of interior secretary, though there is no indication that Gale A. Norton, the current secretary, is leaving the post.

Although the 3CL-configuration was initially preferred, the position of the 3rd nail was later chosen in accordance with the plane which was assumed to be the least stable.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd preferred the positions taken in the 2009 white paper prepared during his first prime ministership (Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030) during his brief return to the office between June and September 2013, and incoming Prime Minister Tony Abbott made a commitment to develop a new white paper by 2015.

I prefer the position of that sometime Baptist, Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island and was first in America to champion religious freedom.

For example, in India, supervisors did not like participatory problem solving as they preferred the status of their position in a hierarchical system (51).

And if in the end it wasn't completely satisfying -- I would have preferred the top position, and am displeased at being obliged to content myself with a lesser one; it does not suit my temperament at all," Pompadour griped after 14 years at Versailles -- the wonder of it is that she got as far as she did.

A majority of respondents preferred the secondary position in scenarios with a clear kerbside lane.

Of the three, Shaughnessy said he preferred the tackle position.

The ortho effect is normally explained by assuming that the bulkiest aryl groups prefer the equatorial position over the apical position, because, in trigonal bipyramidal geometries, the latter positions are more crowded.

"We would have preferred the White House's position be presented in another manner," he said in an interview this morning.

In addition, animals that ate more meals/d were fatter and animals that preferred the gate-end position of the feeder were heavier.