Sentence examples for the method preferred from inspiring English sources

The method preferred by social scientists in determining the divorce rate is to calculate how many people who have ever married subsequently divorced.

"It amazes me that they argue they can do this just because of materiality," he said, adding that he assumed that Xerox would therefore have to change to the method preferred by the S.E.C. in a future period if the two methods produced materially different results.

If instead the data are weighted by GDP measured at purchasing-power parity (the method preferred by the IMF, which adjusts for price differences between countries and so gives more weight to emerging economies) then global growth in the third quarter was an astonishing 6.3%, the fastest since at least the 1980s.

Did kings ever do any actual governing, or did they just fight and fret about who was or wasn't trying to unseat them?" Of course, your pestering might just earn you a beheading, which seems to have been the method preferred by kings and would-be kings of yore for making annoyances go away.

The trend of loading up on N.B.A.-ready prospects for one season — the method preferred by Kentucky Coach John Calipari — has spread to universities like Connecticut, St. John's, Duke and now U.C.L.A., which landed perhaps the top recruiting class in the country.

This study also revealed that only very few producers were aware of the wet salting method of hides and skins, which is the method preferred by the tanners.

Instead he is seeking to prosecute opposition MPs on charges of bribery, which smacks of the methods preferred by the ex-president he ousted, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.

The country is oddly encumbered, too, with two prime ministers, the incoming one anointed through an opaque process that is not so different from the methods preferred in that harsh, cold country.

Maverick was a great pilot, but he flew outside the methods preferred by the Navy.

Except LFA-3, all the methods preferred materials 3 and 5 as the first and second choices.

Shipping, the import method preferred by Abel & Cole, generates 50 times less carbon dioxide than air freight and six times less than transport by road.