Sentence examples for preferred to characterize from inspiring English sources

Mr. Stoiber preferred to characterize it as "a day of truth and failure" for the chancellor's economic policies.

Dano was filled with what Paul Gianelli, one of John White's defense attorneys, called "a warped sense of chivalry" and Dano's godfather, Gregg Sarra, preferred to characterize as "valor, protecting a woman, honor".

Both the Eisenhower and the Kennedy Administrations, wary of intervention in what they preferred to characterize as a local matter, believed that voting fell within the purview of the federal government.

Wielding a glittering rapier — or a hatchet, as he preferred to characterize it — he lustily hacked away at a slew of targets, among them racism, colonialism, Thatcherism, academia and the aristocracy.

Various analytical methods are preferred to characterize the properties of category 3 particles (Uesugi et al. 2014).

In a memorandum describing his conversations with British Ambassador Lord Halifax in 1942, Welles stated that he would have preferred to characterize the plebiscites supporting the annexations as "faked".

(Hogan, who is now sixty-three, prefers to characterize wrestling as "sports entertainment," because promoters stage matches in advance).

"People don't understand what this bill is," said the senator, Nicholas A. Spano of Yonkers, who prefers to characterize it as a crime victims' bill.

He prefers to characterize real life as something beyond his grasp: "When it came time to go back, I found I was the owner of a small house in Brook Green".

Since he can't, he created Neo, which he prefers to characterize as a "community that includes a communal VC fund".

Most philosophers hold that introspection yields something like beliefs or judgments about one's own mind, but others prefer to characterize the products of introspection as "thoughts", "representations", "awareness", or the like.