Sentence examples for preferred to influence from inspiring English sources

While most of the other billionaires have preferred to influence the government from outside, Poroshenko served as national-security minister, central-bank chief, foreign minister, and minister of trade and economy.

"You would prefer to influence it in a positive way for yourself but it does not always happen".

Though influenced by the Continental designers of the time, she preferred to work on films with a decidedly British feel.

The Jewish community has long preferred to attempt to influence the political process through discreet advocacy and relationship building rather than through public demonstrations and campaigning.

We prefer to work with companies where we can influence the design--usually earlier on.

While their rural placement was not generally noted as the most important reason influencing where they would prefer to work, 65% of students reported their NRUDRH placement as a factor that would encourage them to work in a rural area, with 50% of students also reporting a previous rural placement as being a positive factor.

In general, therefore, for a lamination scheme of realistic structures in composite materials, a symmetric laminate is preferred to minimize influence from coupling of stiffness terms.

He may prefer to try to influence events from behind the scenes.

Feith, though, preferred to discuss the influence on his thinking of Edmund Burke, the political philosopher who feared instability as much as neoconservatives seem to embrace it.

Large economies such as those of the United States, Japan, and Great Britain continued to float their currencies, as did Switzerland and Canada both relatively small economies that have preferred to retain some influence over domestic monetary conditions.

For this study, a global perspective is preferred to minimize the influence of biogeographic phenomena, i.e. local extinctions.