Sentence examples for work preferred from inspiring English sources

New immigrants, discouraged by the seasonality and unpredictability of garment-industry work, preferred jobs in hotels, which provided steady income.

SMF research found that most households whose members were out of work preferred to budget weekly, or even daily.

Yet Levinson, who had been a private investigator since retiring from government work, preferred to gather intelligence, and did so in several Latin American countries for the CIA while being paid by a friend there, Anne Jablonski, evidently to conceal the extent of Levinson's intelligence work.

But as a fledgling composer eager for a commission, he did some research and pondering, and found a solution -- only to discover that the director who asked for the work preferred the episodic approach that Mr. Adamo found so dramatically uninteresting.

Some rarely bothered to show up for work, preferring to operate from their political party offices.

He never completed this work, preferring to join the family business.

The critic has reacted negatively to her work, preferring "the studied cadences of an earlier version".

He tended to avoid literal representations in his work, preferring instead to emphasize quietly lyrical abstract design.

Eggleston, forgivably wary of those who presume to pin down his work, prefers to let the pictures do the talking.

A pupil of the Paduan engraver Giulio Campagnola, Domenico did not follow Giulio's stipple technique in his own work, preferring a looser touch and picturesque effect.

Discreet and retiring, Keogh and Shaw rarely comment on their work, preferring to put forward their talent instead, but their handiwork can also be spotted in the work of Ken Loach and Jimmy McGovern.