Sentence examples similar to won preferred from inspiring English sources

Instead, he watched on television as the Knicks won, preferring to stay behind to clear his head and comfort his family.

Ms. Nguyen (pronounced win) preferred naming the area the Saigon Business District, saying that Little Saigon would politicize the designation.

Again, those describing a big win preferred the healthier snacks; those who had to write about a narrow defeat comforted themselves with something waist-expanding.

Ji-won prefers to bake hers for 15 minutes in a 400-degree oven, but suggests it can also be pan fried in olive oil.

In that poll, 39percentt wanted the 49ers to win, 20percentt preferred a Bengal victory and 41percentt expressed no preference.

After all that has been said of and written about the 1986 Mets — principally in Jeff Pearlman's 2004 book, "The Bad Guys Won!" — he prefers to remember them as the team that best embodied baseball's most cherished adage.

But in an interview three days later, she said she had not checked to see who won. "I prefer to be in the dark because of all of the hostility going on," she said.

He also has the support of party leaders in 18 of the state's 21 counties, a factor that will help him easily win the preferred position on the ballot on primary day.

The elimination of candidates and re-counting of ballots continues until a candidate wins enough preferred votes to pass the 50% mark.

The union has never relied on representative institutions to win legitimacy, preferring instead to think the process of integration itself would win popular support.

On 8 May 1790 Talleyrand's proposal in the Assemblée that the new measure be defined at 45°N "or whatever latitude might be preferred" won the support of all parties concerned.