Most people in town preferred to stay where they were".
In that case, the town preferred to abolish the practice of opening prayers.
Another is that the working-class, anticlerical, Communist-leaning town prefers a Manichaean narrative of the day.
She describes Diamond Head as a state of mind, as though there lingers about it something unreconciled that Tennant, and the town, prefers to turn from.
Few second-home owners, though, buy in town, preferring homes along the lake or in the hardwood forests at the foot of Mont-Orford.
Even today, young people are afraid to use taxis in the town, preferring to catch buses than be taken on the "longest, darkest route home" and be peppered with "flirtatious or suggestive" conversation about sex.
"BILLY ELLIOT" A spunky 11-year-old-boy (the remarkable Jamie Bell), to the horror of his family and neighbors in a Northern England coal mining town, prefers ballet to boxing lessons.
A further component of the original Collins plan - 24 houses on 10 acres that had orginally been the parking area for the factory workers - was held up because the town preferred not to approve any redevelopment of the site on a piecemeal basis.
If these cities and towns prefer to island themselves or become an economic and environmental drag on the region, they should shoulder the costs by themselves.
Just imagine those towns preferring the Tories over Labour: even two years ago the very idea would have been unthinkable.
Fine dining demands repose, and while Mick Jagger stayed at uber-swanky Château du Domaine Saint-Martin (10 minutes' drive out of town), I prefer the town centre's Hôtel le Provence (00 33 4 9358 0421), a sweet two-star with Provençal décor, a flower-filled breakfast garden and rooms from €35.
