The more people attended church, the more strongly they preferred him.
Collectively, delicately, John McEnroe's players let it be known that they preferred him on the sideline, where a Davis Cup captain belongs.
This has led old-style Republican legislators like Bob Dole and Trent Lott to say they preferred him to the harder-edged Mr. Cruz, with his checklist of "principles".
This was the lesson — or one of them anyway — from the shrunken presidency of Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer with the soft voice and the cardigan sweaters who insisted on carrying his own suitcase: Americans like the idea of a people's president, but in practice they prefer him to keep a kind of Olympian remove.
Hicks of Official Xbox Magazine and Andy Robinson of Computer and Video Games both called Niko "charismatic" and "likeable", stating that they prefer him over previous protagonists of the series.
However, they still preferred him to Barack Obama.
No, he says, of course they have not fallen out, well, yes, they have had their differences, and to be perfectly honest they would have preferred him to stay on staff, but, no, he couldn't classify it as a row, and, yes, he hopes to be doing lots of work for them in the future.
They would have preferred him at the helm, and his money, but sadly good things must come to an end.
Mr. Speaker has said that county officials told him they preferred he not travel, but that they never forbade it and did not seem concerned about his ability to infect others.
The letter invited Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich, or any other English bishop, to come to a debate with him; if they preferred, he wrote, they could settle the matter for both countries through single combat.
Independents preferred him, but they constituted less than 20percentt of the total participants.
