Sentence examples for while preferable from inspiring English sources

The forward deployment of American troops abroad, he said, while preferable, was not necessary.

So let's take a quick detour, because the design of 107-millimeter rocket is such that the launch tube, while preferable, is not necessary.

While preferable to cluster observations at the school-level, the school variable was not accessible to the research team without permission from each school that participated in the study.

While preferable to the hoarse rasp he was left with at the start of his tour, Harrison's "growled" delivery – recorded during a period when, according to Boyd and to Harrison's later admission, his overindulgence with brandy and cocaine was common – ended up serving as the lead vocal for his Christmas single.

While preferable in analysis, these normalised values did not affect the correlation results.

While preferable terrestrial walking speeds for humans average up to around 1.5 m s−1 (e.g. Wagnild and Wall-Scheffler, 2013), typical speeds while wading in water, particularly in deeper water, is probably somewhat slower.

This allows us to design a subgradient algorithm which is shown to be competitive with SDP algorithms in terms of efficiency, while being preferable as far as memory requirements, flexibility and stability are concerned.

For example, maximum lysine yield was obtained when ORP was controlled between the range of −230 and −210 mV, while the preferable ORP range was −275 to −225 mV in homoserine and valine fermentations [6,7].

While probably preferable, absorbable anchors still have the disadvantage of requiring drill holes in the bone.

While scientifically preferable, a randomized trial of contrast exposure is impracticable, as it would mandate either suboptimal imaging or RCM exposure simply to assess toxicity, violating the principal of beneficence.

While ostensibly preferable, adhering to recommendations to focus primarily on patients' self-reports of such health information [ 3, 68] is not prudent if it leads to a loss in parental confidence in the clinician and disaffection [ 69- 71].