(Older women, he declared, were preferable to younger ones).
However, these dysfunctions were preferable for Thatcher's base to the lingering pathologies of the postwar system.
Super sorbets, including plum and mango, were preferable to overly sweet gelatos.
Modest Turkish white wines, $10 to $13 a bottle, were preferable to the rustic reds.
The idea that tools were preferable to politics found a ready audience in a decade of deregulation.
He said dictators were preferable to the constellation of armed forces that emerges when they are unseated.
However, for Sloan Wilson and his wife Betty (together in our picture) there were preferable ways to spend your life.
She decided that an American surgeon and the comforts of home were preferable to their Russian equivalents.
Mr. Bloomberg has taken enormous political heat for his conviction that tax increases were preferable to making drastic cuts in critical city services.
The debate, he says, was "baffling and at the same time quite encouraging", since "hatred and opposition" to the Christian faith were preferable to "comfortable indifference".
Saturns were preferable because it was easy to tell the pale females, which she needed, from the darker males, which she did not.
