Sentence examples for surely preferable from inspiring English sources

Taking people out of tax is surely preferable to reducing inheritance tax for the rich.

But that is surely preferable to the alternative: utter silence or uncritical support for the government.

Such a policy is surely preferable to histrionic declarations about the axis of evil.

Pre-emptive justice is surely preferable to the retributive justice we settle for today.

Yet cohesion in foreign policy is surely preferable to senators sending freelance missives to declared enemies of the state.

(Poets in hats and ranchwear are surely preferable to skinny city-dwellers in turtlenecks, or whatever they wear these days).

As for those bears that prove resistant to all efforts at re-education, selective euthanasia by professional sharpshooters is surely a preferable alternative to the invariably messy exploits of amateur hunters set loose among an indeterminate number of free-roaming bears.

Surely that's preferable to gin & milk.

Workers can boost their real incomes simply by moving to cheap cities. Surely that's preferable to taxing the rich and redistributing the proceeds!Maybe, but maybe not.

Surely this is preferable to the roll-call of celebrities who, it has to be said, seem to leave their seats empty for long periods during the day?

If three no-trump was to be the final contract, it would surely have been preferable to make North the declarer.