Sentence examples for sometimes preferred from inspiring English sources

The term "executive assistant" is sometimes preferred.

Even as military planes, old aircraft are sometimes preferred to new ones in Latin America.

I sometimes preferred riding alone, though, watching eagles soar as I rolled on through.

He sometimes preferred those topics to the repetitive nuances of South Asia's dysfunctional politics.

Venice is sometimes preferred, though Venice somehow has an inseparable sinister side; witness Proust and Thomas Mann.

Because of the interfacing problems contact-less liquid delivery is sometimes preferred over tube couplings for sample and reagent delivery to the chip.

Sharansky also rejects the course of action, sometimes preferred even by democratic leaders, of propping up friendly dictators rather than supporting the rights of another nation's unpredictable electorate.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Frank – or Francisco as he sometimes preferred – developed a passion for jazz at an early age.

Both terms are acceptable, though same-sex marriage is sometimes preferred to make clear that the expression covers both gay men and lesbians.

On the high islands, people also wanted access to lagoons, although easily defensible sites were sometimes preferred, such as the tops of steep cleared slopes.

See van Rossum, supra note 22 (stating that, despite management preference for commercial software, software engineers sometimes prefer the open source versions over the commercial products).