Sentence examples for was our preferred from inspiring English sources

The club's chairman Bill Bratt said: "When we learned that Micky had become available, it was clear that he was our preferred candidate.

"David Cameron was our preferred candidate in the Tory leadership contest last month, and we remain well disposed towards him," announced the Daily Telegraph in a leader last week.

Lions tour manager Andy Irvine admitted Gatland had been the man they wanted: "It has been no secret that after the initial selection process, Warren was our preferred candidate.

Because of this, the fixed effects estimator was our preferred model.

However, listwise deletion was our preferred method and the pairwise deletion analyses were only performed for comparative purposes.

Blade plate fixation was our preferred technique in the presence of a normal subtalar joint, as rigid fixation could be obtained without interference with the subtalar joint in such cases.

"This chairman, though he was not our preferred choice — you play the hand you get dealt, and that's what we're going to do," said a union official involved in lobbying for Pascrell who requested anonymity to speak freely.

Christopher LaFemina at Jefferies was more positive, saying the worst may now be over: Anglo has been our least preferred of the major diversified miners.

"We want to be our customers' preferred partners for running their workloads and it's in Microsoft's and our customers' shared interest to help them to manage everything".

2) What Goes Way Up, Will Go Way Down: Carbs are our bodies' preferred source of energy -- quick energy, that is -- so they deserve a place in any better energy recipe.

While this state of affairs is not ideal, and it is not our preferred form of rebuttal, it does highlight what may be a general difficulty in detecting interactions between endogenous Mfn and other proteins.