Sentence examples for which preferred to from inspiring English sources

And Barclays, which preferred to tap Middle East investors for funds rather than accept government support, was down more than 8% or 13.1p at 148p.

In reality the US had a "Kardashian culture" which preferred to read and watch comedies, romances and super-heroes, rather than stories involving gun violence.

The A.M.A. also had strong allies, such as the insurance lobby, which preferred to work behind the scenes to combat the bill.

Wuttke looked at which students failed to complete the test and which preferred to increase their speed – even at the risk of increasing their errors.

"In their ardent belief that Negro culture was a constitutive part of American culture, they had defied an entrenched literary mainstream, which preferred to regard black culture as so much exotica — amusing perhaps, but eminently dispensable.

Yet Lewis is a joyous poet, his death was not mysterious (except to the army, which preferred to call a suicide an accident) and his wartime dalliance in India with Freda Ackroyd while preparing to fight the Japanese was astonishingly liberating (for both of them): Lewis's letters to Ackroyd are among the greatest love letters ever written in English.

There is a part of Ireland which prefers to be governed from London.

They are neglected by China's banks, which prefer to make big loans to large companies.

Such arrangements have been especially attractive to foreign companies, many of which prefer to own rather than rent.

Smaller cities are left with industries like manufacturing and transport, which prefer to be on the edge, close to motorways.

Saudi Arabia, which prefers to work its checkbook diplomacy quietly and behind the scenes, sees itself as the regional leader.