Sentence examples for recently preferred from inspiring English sources

The SFO has yet to confirm whether it has launched a formal investigation, but legal experts say the SFO's new director, David Green, has signalled an end to a perceived trend that the SFO has recently preferred settlements to prosecutions in recent times.

It has recently preferred to run articles on how the leftist Sandinistas of Nicaragua helped the Salvadoran rebels.

One is that evolutionary biology, until recently, preferred a "nature red in tooth and claw" view that had no place for kindness.

Academic literary studies have until recently preferred to treat the "opaque," "difficult" writings of high moderns Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, and Eliot, and the more accessible work of the low moderns Kipling, Shaw, and Wells in separate categories.

Though he delivered his usual stump speech, just short of 15-minutes, Mr. Romney — who until recently preferred to stay above the fray, ignoring his Republican rivals and instead focusing on President Obama — lit into Newt Gingrich within the first 30 seconds.

It can seem difficult to square Mr. Hinton's 12-year run at News International — a company whose papers ran pictures of nude women and paid sources for information — with his leadership of Dow Jones and The Journal, a paper that until recently preferred sketches over photographs.

This seems like a trite point to make, but all too often we tend to ignore what children describe about their lives, and indeed until recently actively preferred them to be "seen and not heard".

If Mr. Holt maintains his lead and returns to Washington in January, he will have solidified his hold on a district that until recently had preferred Republican legislators over Democrats.

When friends from the Balkans visited London recently, they preferred a photo opportunity with the sign for Peckham – which they saw fleetingly from a bus – over a visit to Abbey Road.

Usually, we positioned the nerve over the membrane, although more recently we preferred to lay it under the buccal periosteum.

Blank has a reputation, one agent said recently, of preferring the big splash.