Sentence examples for preferred to open from inspiring English sources

This year, Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" was rejected for competition at Cannes; rather than be relegated to Un Certain Regard, Mr. Coppola preferred to open the Fortnight.

The latest project has taken a long time, the elder Mr. Appel noted in a voice that made it clear he would have preferred to open on Christmas, not Memorial Day.

The cis-decalin isomer is preferred to open the naphthenic ring in a selective way instead of multiple cracking.

Banks accepted deposits in either currency, and most Argentines preferred to open accounts denominated in dollars because they regarded the American currency as stronger than the peso.

Shane Watson and Usman Khawaja were preferred to open as Warner floated in the middle order while Finch, one of only two Australia batsman to score a T20 international hundred, played only the final two matches.

Corrective supracondylar humeral osteotomy has been preferred to open reduction and internal fixation for managing malunited fragments.

Many theater producers and their star actors prefer to open in spring in hopes of having the highest profile possible for Tony voters.

If you would prefer to open files from desktop icons instead of tiny taskbar icons but do not have existing shortcut files, it is simple to create them.

Some combatants prefer to open a bout with a stunning punch to the lower body, but Euan was rarely that noble.

"Of course, you'd prefer to open in 2000, or last November at the height of the market," said James W. McBride, the managing director of the Carlyle.

For the past two decades, according to Matthew, a Manhattan realtor who asked to use only his first name, "most young families prefer to open up the formal dining room and kitchen into a single 'great room.' " And yet people who actually like cooking tend to crave boundaries to want to be, as Julia Child assured us we could be, "alone in the kitchen".