Sentence examples similar to that held preference from inspiring English sources
Media captionUS President Barack Obama: "I have a deeply held preference for peaceful solutions" The source added: "It appears that the meeting should start on Thursday and end on Friday, although it is not ruled out that it may last until Saturday". No further details of the proposal have been made public.
These factors might even alter the patient's previously strongly held preference.
Perhaps that long-held preference for society's underdogs — albeit ones they put through various prisms and paces — is what makes their film feel so rooted in our world.
The willingness of Sunni states to openly deploy their militaries is a marked departure from their long-held preference that the US use its powerful military to protect their regional interests.
But in his speech, Obama also defended his administration's approach of sanctions and diplomacy, saying that he would rather see diplomatic solutions prevail than military ones, and that he has "a deeply-held preference for peace over war".
And I have a deeply-held preference for peaceful solutions.
Fifa has a long-held preference for November/December, although North American and South American confederations are against those dates because their domestic seasons conclude around this time.
As millennials join the ranks of homeowners, they're making their mark on how those homes look, and in some cases bucking long-held preferences.
Note our strongly-held preferences, likes, dislikes, inclinations, and beliefs.
The device reconfigures for that preference.
