Sentence examples for preferred to represent from inspiring English sources

He would ultimately have preferred to represent his native Trinidad and Tobago, a British colony until it achieved independence in 1962.

Would surely have been an England fixture for years but preferred to represent the Samoan roots of his father, Shane, who settled in the north after coming over to play for Salford in the 1980s.

And once the question of "what-are-ya?" was posed to the Australian public in the 2013 election, it was clear which one the electorate preferred to represent them.

A multi-body approach has been preferred to represent possible configurations of the large cis-lunar infrastructure: interconnected simple structural elements - such as beams, rods or lumped masses linked by springs - build up the space segment.

Harrison Hansen, the Salford forward who was born in the city but has always preferred to represent his father's Samoan roots and was due to lead them in last year's World Cup until he was injured in a warm-up game, has already declared his desire to play in the Four Nations and his Red Devils team-mates Junior Sa'u, Francis Meli and Tony Puletua would be eligible to join him.

Henry VIII preferred to represent himself as the embodiment of the "union of the families of Lancaster and York", says Dr Davies.

In a survey of my own, divorce lawyers by more than two to one said they prefer to represent men.

Players are born in Luanda, Bissau or Praia but end up in Lisbon or Porto and often prefer to represent Portugal.

They prefer to represent novelty acts like Mia St. John, a Playboy model, who posed on the magazine's cover nude with boxing gloves.

This treatment is significant because, as Vincent Debaene points out in a cheeky introduction to the volume, France much prefers to represent its scientists and thinkers as great literary figures, rather than celebrate what they said or discovered.

Mrs Smith, moreover, refuses on principle to accept money from corporate political action committees, declaring that she prefers to represent the little guy; she seldom misses a chance to denounce government subsidies to industry as "corporate welfare".