"We have an understandable preference for tales of conversion over stories of scorpion squeezing: we want oppressed people to free themselves we want the Israelites to have crossed the Red Sea without help from empathetic Egyptians".
Tyrion is a randy, dissolute, appealing dwarf compelled by circumstance to become Machiavellian and military, despite his understandable preference for bedroom pleasures over going toe-to-toe with Westeros's many sword-wielding nutjobs.
We have an understandable preference for tales of conversion over stories of scorpion squeezing: we want oppressed people to free themselves — we want the Israelites to have crossed the Red Sea without help from empathetic Egyptians.
Vetoing the boys' understandable preference for jam today over college tomorrow, I phone some experts I've met over the years.
This is the normal, understandable preference that we all have for being around people with whom we are comfortable.
As they cause bacterial infections and other serious medical problems, her understandable preference would be not to "wear" them while offstage.
First, there is a certain and understandable preference in psychiatry and clinical neurosciences for research from an author's own country that can be found equally on both sides of the Atlantic.
William, a warm, kind, very elegant intellectual, has perfectly understandable erotic preferences.
It has a cleaner look and lots of clever features, like a very understandable System Preferences window that replaces the control panel.
In particular, where individually negligible effects are involved, as is the case among "creeping environmental problems" such as pollution, "an agent, whether it be an individual or a unified collective, can be led down a course of destruction simply as a result of following its informed and perfectly understandable but intransitive preferences" (Andreou 2006, 96).
