In contrast, among the CDU sturdies, who were due to meet on January 11th and 12th, several, including at least three state premiers, prefer Mr Stoiber to their own leader; so does Friedrich Merz, who heads the combined conservative group in parliament.
Mrs Merkel preferred Christian Wulff, premier of Lower Saxony and a rival within her Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Our consumer survey conducted earlier this year already shows that: 1) Costa is the UK's favourite coffee shop, 2) The recent Which magazine survey shows that Premier Inn is clearly preferred to Travelodge.
Truth to tell, most of the party's top people, including the Bavarian premier, Edmund Stoiber, would prefer to see the euro scheme dropped altogether.
Without its captain and playmaker, Claudio Reyna, who had duties with Sunderland in the English Premier League and prefers a slower possession game, the United States moved the ball quickly and decisively, producing a style that was open and entertaining.
Back in his days as Nixon's "media adviser" and the GOP's premier political consultant, Ailes actually preferred the freedom and plausible deniability that came with consultant gigs, quite wisely in the case of Nixon.
Fathom uses a version of the Li Keqiang index, which is reportedly preferred by Li Keqiang, the premier of the state council of China.
He claimed his lucrative Indian Premier League contract caused resentment and he preferred playing in the Big Bash League, where many players participate in franchise cricket in other countries.
Craig Samson chose Kilmarnock over Scottish Premier League runners-up Motherwell because he preferred a return to his hometown club.
That is consistency of a sort and even if the German model is not to be preferred to the unpredictability of the Premier League it starts at home.
