Sentence examples for preferred to act from inspiring English sources

He said the Fed preferred to act at regular meetings.

But other than that, the Microsoft people preferred to act like pious missionaries.

Instead, the administration preferred to act unilaterally, usually in a tight circle of secrecy.

The United States, however, preferred to act alone, picking allied units in "coalitions of the willing" to go to war in Afghanistan.

Distrustful of the masses and contemptuous of any faith other than his own stark version of Islam, he preferred to act secretly and unilaterally, until the moment his group could seize power and impose its totalitarian religious vision.

Adams, a short, chunky New Englander and a combative, nonstop talker, might seem the antithesis of Jefferson, a tall, thin Virginian who rarely spoke in public, "abhorred dispute" and, when involved in political controversies, preferred to act covertly.

The ability of AKRs to oxidize non-K-region PAH trans-dihydrodiols is unusual since these enzymes prefer to act as carbonyl reductases with a significant preference for NADPH over NAD+.

I prefer to act  to defend peoples".

THUGS and thieves always prefer to act in the early hours of the morning.

Mr. Bernanke and Mr. Draghi would clearly prefer to act in concert with politicians.

Big powers such as America and the EU may prefer to act unilaterally.