| Areas with abundant bluebunch wheatgrass and other native grasses along with scattered threetip sage are preferred breeding habitats. |
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| I was devastated, as, whilst I had used a wok in England, I preferred to grill or roast our food! |
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| He liked jazz, preferred informal dress, didn't much care for hunting and shooting, and was openly contemptuous of red carpets. |
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| Because we do not know that the values have normal distribution, the Wilcoxon test is preferred over the Student's t-test. |
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| Politically, the Republican presidential candidates can be assessed on their various preferred visions of Reaganomics. |
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| Housing reformers preferred to rehouse workers in the suburbs, but the cost of transport to and from work was beyond many families' incomes. |
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| The road gang's contract was abruptly cancelled as Arthur's Pass became the preferred route through to the coast. |
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| While the land remained Maori freehold land, the preferred class of alienees had a right of first refusal if it was to be alienated. |
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| He was named after his uncle, but his mother preferred to call him Campbell. |
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| The jacales were made in a variety of sizes and styles, depending on the method preferred by the workers. |
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| The Quakers also rejected the use of you as a polite form of address, and preferred thou, which to them signalled intimacy and equality. |
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| I remember how Robert Motherwell didn't like the term abstract expressionism and preferred abstract automatism. |
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| Only heating well above their preferred temperature, or antiseptic chemicals, can kill bacteria. |
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| For their part, rationalizers preferred minimal requirements to optimal ones. |
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| My preferred rationalisation for this is that the films are too long for me to concentrate all the way through. |
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| However in the course of time, gold has become the preferred metal for use in hand wrought jewellery. |
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| However, most of the residents preferred to stay home instead of taking refuge elsewhere. |
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| Pigs are the preferred species for xenotransplantation on scientific, practical and ethical grounds. |
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| Many consumers just preferred the SUV image and fun over the minivan and increasingly didn't even explore wagons. |
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| The abbot and other monks preferred tap water, but it was not yet available. |
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| They chose wood as their preferred blocking material because it offers more natural, aesthetic options for interior design. |
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| Charles's father, however, preferred business and sports and regretted that his son had turned out an aesthete and a poet. |
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| Vegetable fats and oils with a high proportion of unsaturated fatty acids are to be preferred. |
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| I tried both two-wheeled and three-wheeled recumbents, and vastly preferred the trikes. |
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| She preferred wounding someone or having herself get injured instead of having anyone dead. |
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| Women, they say, laughed more at jokes involving wordplay, while men preferred more aggressive humor. |
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| For years, just-in-time delivery has been the preferred method for meeting those goals. |
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| South African truck drivers are particularly preferred because they give rands or United States dollars. |
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| The most mystical of shades, purple has been preferred by kings, queens and emperors throughout history. |
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| Juvenile salmon clearly avoided kin when they shared shelters and preferred to associate with unrelated conspecifics. |
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| Mid-December to mid-January plantings are generally preferred when growing Koala lablab for grain. |
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| The one working on the side seemed to comb the wet plaster into horizontal furrows, while the one working on the back preferred a smooth finish. |
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| Yorks, Rome Beauties and Winesaps are also good cooking apples, if a red apple is preferred. |
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| Oral administration is preferred, and doses should be given at regular intervals around the clock to provide good pain control. |
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| Tom told him a story about a parolee who stole a car to get back into jail because he preferred it to home. |
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| He evidently preferred not to take sabbaticals in order to keep his summers free for writing and relaxation. |
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| The date of the roadworks could be put back to the autumn if that date is preferred. |
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| Young men preferred bare legs made possible by wearing short skirts, especially those made from kidskin because of its smooth hairs. |
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| Births are occasions for rejoicing, with male babies preferred over females. |
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| That same recreational jogger could keep up with the preferred trotting speed of a thousand-pound horse. |
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| Fermat preferred the algebraic techniques that he used to such devastating effect in number theory. |
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| Tall shrubs provide the higher vantage points and nest sites preferred by birds such as wood pigeon. |
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| Respondents rated the same five legumes that they most preferred as also most preferred by clients. |
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| Some designers and pilots preferred finding the biggest radial engine they could and shoe-homing it into the smallest design possible. |
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| He had become a complete art house junky who preferred a long, boring foreign jobbie to my Stallone pictures. |
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| Unlike France, Britain has preferred men of action, pragmatists, doers rather than thinkers. |
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| Woodlands near water are their preferred habitat, although raccoons may also be found in farmlands, suburban or urban areas. |
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| Buying the shares later to fulfill the bond redemption was preferred to paying cash to the bondholders because the share price was declining. |
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| On this level, France would have preferred no regime change and a lifting of sanctions to get back to business as usual. |
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| Today, qwerty is my preferred mode of text input, and I very much want my smart phone to support qwerty as well. |
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| Preston's troupe preferred to circumvent the chaotic jetsam of the central areas by focusing their efforts on the flanks. |
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| He was a quiet person who preferred staying in but when we went out we always enjoyed ourselves. |
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| In most cases I'm sure that the deceased would have preferred that the business of the Borough should not be disrupted on their account. |
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| Nadp is much preferred to oxygen as an electron acceptor in intact chloroplasts. |
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| Its balance sheet is burdened by long-term debt and preferred stock that must be redeemed. |
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| Clearly both players preferred to take it easy and rest for their semi-finals. |
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| The cloth preferred for this is the home-spun, locally-woven and dyed khadi. |
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| The styling and the fancy paintwork were terrific, and I've always preferred cars with rear-wheel drive. |
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| In the wood thrush's preferred concert hall of moist woods, every leaf seems to serve as his sound reflector, imparting bell-like reverberations to his clear, round notes. |
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| Up to now the handsome Prince Rainier has preferred big-game hunting, yachting, car racing and diving into underwater caverns off the south of France, to seeking a wife. |
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| Therefore, two flute end mills are superior in softer more flexible materials and four or more flute cutters are generally preferred in very hard or abrasive materials. |
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| And while some have preferred to opt for the waiting game, there are those who are hoping that they will benefit from the absence of the big players. |
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| Throughout his life, possibly because of crippling arthritis, his preferred medium was watercolour, painted in luminous washes within tight well-defined outlines. |
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| It developed a reputation as the preferred festival drinking spot for Americans and Australians, and it does not disappoint. |
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| According to Lee, the remake had a 140-minute cut that he and Brolin preferred, but the distributor slashed it to 105 minutes. |
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| Both journals are international weeklies, but Science has a higher circulation within the United States and so is often preferred by United States scientists. |
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| According to Swiss press reports, younger cats in the litter are the most tender and, as such, are the preferred cat cuts. |
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| Apple also created the preferred devices for accessing this interface, and the music it channeled. |
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| He preferred the decomposed granite soil in the valley facing False Bay, claimed it, and named it Constantia. |
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| My preferred game is poker but last night we played contract whist. |
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| The authentic Kultur of the German people was surely to be preferred to the artificial Civilization of a cosmopolitan, materialistic French-speaking elite. |
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| In exchange for the cash, Fannie and Freddie issued preferred stock to Treasury that was supposed to pay 10 percent dividend. |
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| Next morning, I wanted to get in among the views, so I tackled the nearby Rhune mountain via rack-and-pinion railway, my preferred method of mountaineering. |
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| This indicates abortus fever and brucellosis are synonyms of a single disease name and the term brucellosis has been chosen as the preferred term. |
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| And whether their preferred candidate wins or loses, they have a right to demand from their representative an array of services. |
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| But if your preferred policy can only be advanced by concealing relevant facts, isn't that a blaring warning of a bad policy? |
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| So while the Irish elk preferred relatively temperate conditions and semi-woodland habitats, the woolly mammoth was adapted to cold temperatures and open tundra. |
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| These coins were legal tender in the USA until 1857, as the young USA had few coins and many merchants preferred the Spanish Reals to USA coinage. |
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| If anything, segregationists like Strom Thurmond would have preferred a focus on economic issues. |
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| Regularly communicate with families using their preferred language. |
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| IndyMac was taking new measures to preserve capital, such as deferring interest payments on some preferred securities. |
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| Plurality voting elects the candidate who is preferred first by the largest number of voters, although this need not be an absolute majority. |
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| In the most common ballot design, they place a '1' beside their most preferred candidate, a '2' beside their second most preferred, and so on. |
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| Consequently, voters sometimes, for example, rank only the candidates of a single party, or of their most preferred parties. |
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| Anne preferred to retain a minority government rather than be dictated to by Parliament. |
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| From the 1960s onward, life peerages were preferred, although in 1984 Harold Macmillan was created Earl of Stockton. |
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| Some areas, such as Hong Kong, have preferred to shape their policy around a tighter focus on copyright ownership in the value chain. |
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| In the SI system, use of prefixes for powers of 1,000 is preferred and all other multiples discouraged. |
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| The spiritual insight gained from their ascetic struggles make monastics preferred for missionary activity. |
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| This mode is preferred for its parallel imagery to the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. |
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| Philip Larkin, the preferred nominee, had declined, because of ill health and a loss of creative momentum, dying a year later. |
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| In letters he explained that he preferred simplicity, relating songs to spoken language which should be sung in traditional ways. |
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| Hitchcock preferred to film in studios as he was able to control the environment. |
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| If I'd had a choice, I probably would have preferred to put it deeper into the body of the shoot. |
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| The Common Room and the Library were lit by anbaric light, but the Scholars preferred the older, softer naphtha lamps in the Retiring Room. |
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| They agreed that each would give the Athenians one gift and the Athenians would choose whichever gift they preferred. |
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| Transport by water was preferred where possible, and moving commodities by land was more difficult. |
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| Urban populations and the military preferred to consume their grain in the form of bread. |
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| Rural Quakers preferred simple designs in furnishings such as tables, chairs, and chests, and shunned elaborate decorations. |
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| Burgoyne instead encouraged bayonet charges to break up enemy formations, which was a preferred tactic in most European armies at the time. |
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| The CGF members later voted for their preferred candidate in a secret ballot. |
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| Machining of copper is possible, although alloys are preferred for good machinability in creating intricate parts. |
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| In 2007 the Welsh Assembly Government undertook a consultation to determine which of four options would be preferred for a second crossing. |
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| The revolutionaries assumed that reactionary and monarchist forces preferred regional languages to try to keep the peasant masses underinformed. |
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| When you are striping gears and come to a nuthead run right over it, with fine lines on its edges, or around the nut, as may be preferred. |
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| However all these had difficulty establishing themselves in the contemporary art market, which still preferred history paintings and portraits. |
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| Historically, food that could last for several days and be eaten without heating was preferred. |
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| Baijiu and huangjiu as strong alcoholic beverages are preferred by many people as well. |
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| It would drive its ball through even the oldermost of the tribe of Ephraim, or, if you preferred, bark a squirrel at nearly any distance. |
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| It established Kingstown as a preferred suburb of Dublin, and led to the construction of elegant residential terraces. |
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| In 2015, Cammell Laird was selected as the preferred bidder to construct RRS Sir David Attenborough, a Royal Research Ship. |
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| The habitat of any given species is considered its preferred area or territory. |
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| While the preferred diet of cuttlefish is crabs and fish, they feed on small shrimp shortly after hatching. |
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| Often, this front narrows into one or more preferred routes termed flyways. |
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| There is evidence that this enables the migrants to obtain more of their preferred foods such as fruits. |
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| White was the preferred colour, and sometimes wings or entire birds were used. |
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| A study suggests that males leaned towards competitive birding while females preferred recreational birdwatching. |
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| The size of the preferred prey fish varies depending on pelican species and location. |
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| A preferred stow is to level in lower hold spaces and overstow by other suitable cargoes. |
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| Schaal preferred to attack, rather than give the British time to send reinforcements. |
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| I much preferred a solid shoulder at Argentan to the possibility of a broken neck at Falaise. |
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| The preferred arthropods are the millipedes Glomeris marginata and Tachypodoiulus niger as well as the ground beetle Carabus nemoralis. |
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| Fresh mint is usually preferred over dried mint when storage of the mint is not a problem. |
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| Hence most sailing ships preferred the Drake Passage, which is open water for hundreds of miles, despite very rough conditions. |
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| However, in the presence of a predator, they preferred to seek safety in the space available between stones of a cobble substrate. |
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| Their performances were comparable but according to the team manager, John Wickham, the team sponsors preferred the Hill name. |
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| Village exogamy was preferred but residence was ambilocal so neither the household nor the village formed any kind of definable kin group. |
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| The officers at the antaircraft school preferred Case I to Case III firing even when the modern Buffi equipment is employed. |
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| My grandmother Rosemary never cared much for antique shops, she preferred modern goods as opposed to the things of yore. |
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| The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra. |
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| As a benumber or topical anodyne it is much inferior to aconite, hence in neuralgia the latter is greatly to be preferred. |
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| In these cases, a high molecular weight, biostable polymeric carrier is preferred. |
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| He preferred being cleanshaven, but he grew a beard for warmth during winter. |
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| Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evildoing. |
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| In single-level settings, a negative binomial model is often preferred as it relaxes the restrictive equidispersion assumption. |
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| The Chinese gentry, so far as they still existed, preferred to work with him rather than with the feudalist Huns. |
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| Gregory the Great in an epistle simplified the Latinised name Anglii to Angli, the latter form developing into the preferred form of the word. |
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| I preferred to think about school and a government job and how I would one day put on high-heeled shoes and wear a long skirt like other girls. |
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| If it was not preferred in Classical Latin, then it most likely came from the invisible contemporaneous Vulgar Latin. |
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| According to the 2011 Census, 8,248 people in England stated that Welsh was their first or preferred language. |
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| The preferred method of burial seems to have been singular graves and cists in the east, or in small wedge tombs in the west. |
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| It is possible, therefore, that until then Mercia had remained the preferred term, as the quote from Trevisa above would indicate. |
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| But he remained a resented outsider, and the northern British kingdoms preferred to ally with the pagan Norse of Dublin. |
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| William would have preferred to delay the invasion until he could make an unopposed landing. |
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| The political community preferred this to a regency led by the king's uncle, John of Gaunt, although Gaunt remained highly influential. |
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| After 1471, Edward IV had preferred to belittle Henry's pretensions to the crown, and made only sporadic attempts to secure him. |
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| Her father preferred her to stay in England, but Henry VII's relations with Ferdinand had deteriorated. |
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| Hobbes advances detailed critical arguments why the Vulgate rendering is to be preferred. |
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| Socially, Pitt preferred the company of young men, and would continue to do so into his thirties and forties. |
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| George's mother, now the Dowager Princess of Wales, preferred to keep George at home where she could imbue him with her strict moral values. |
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| Its proposal for the West Midlands conurbation preferred instead an area of contiguous county boroughs with no overall metropolitan authority. |
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| Beer in the North is usually served with a thick head which accentuates the nutty, malty flavours preferred in Northern beers. |
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| Those in the minority are asked to give the action they would have preferred. |
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| In the 1950s new psychiatric drugs, notably the antipsychotic chlorpromazine, were designed in laboratories and slowly came into preferred use. |
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| On 1 January 2008, Ford formally declared that Tata was the preferred bidder. |
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| On 31 January 2012, the IAF announced the Rafale as the preferred bidder in the competition. |
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| By contrast, Priestley preferred to observe qualitative changes in heat, color, and particularly volume. |
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| When it came to food, Melissa preferred subtle nuance and lighthanded seasoning. |
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| But by about age 12, he said he did not want to go anymore, as he preferred a scientific search for answers over religious belief. |
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| Brunel's first name, Isambard, comes from his father's middle name, which was also his father's preferred given name. |
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| It was due to this, in their future dealings with Parliament, that it became clear that the authorities preferred Robert to his father. |
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| Boulton generally preferred not to take on lengthy projects, and he warned Cook that its completion might take years. |
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| However, it was Leibniz who developed the notation of the derivative and integral preferred today. |
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| In late 2016, incumbent operator, RATP Dev revealed in a statement to shareholders that it was not the preferred bidder. |
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| There was a wave of slackness, and young men preferred to remain lob-lolly lesser Hindus than to follow their fathers' stern creed. |
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| Mr. Lynch has always preferred the long game and he is banking on luring Democrats home to the Mayor's side in November. |
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| A survey in 1969 found that most educated East Pakistanis preferred a secular identity and placed more emphasis on ethnicity than religion. |
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| I preferred the Dutch apple pie, and my waitress for those few years had legs that belonged in the Louvre. |
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| Demand theory describes individual consumers as rationally choosing the most preferred quantity of each good, given income, prices, tastes, etc. |
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| Here, utility refers to the hypothesized relation of each individual consumer for ranking different commodity bundles as more or less preferred. |
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| Ruggles asserts that the site, on marshland, was chosen because a preferred site several miles to the west could not be obtained. |
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| In India the term dharma is preferred, which is broader than the western term religion. |
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| Romans preferred to engineer solutions to obstacles rather than circumvent them. |
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| Eve's decision is enough to make me consider choosing agnosticism as my preferred faith, or at least maltheism. |
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| By the 1450s guns were the preferred siege weapon, and their effectiveness was demonstrated by Mehmed II at the Fall of Constantinople. |
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| He describes himself as a metalworker, a craftsman whose preferred trade is blacksmith although he is working as a tramp printer when first seen. |
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| Most of the aristocracy preferred this to a regency led by the king's uncle, John of Gaunt, yet Gaunt remained highly influential. |
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| Roasting is a preferred method of cooking for most poultry, and certain cuts of beef, pork, or lamb. |
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| In New Zealand, snapper or gurnard was originally the preferred species for battered fillets in the North Island. |
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| Food that could last for several days and could be eaten without heating was preferred. |
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| Breweries may state whether or not a sparkler is preferred when serving their beers. |
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| Many visitors came to see Johnson as he lay sick in bed, but he preferred only Langton's company. |
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| Jane later disillusioned her by gossiping that Percy had preferred her to Mary, owing to Mary's inadequacy as a wife. |
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| Leigh Hunt's son, the editor Thornton Leigh Hunt, was later asked by John Bedford Leno whether he preferred Shelley or Byron as a man. |
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| Blake started engraving copies of drawings of Greek antiquities purchased for him by his father, a practice that was preferred to actual drawing. |
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| Against Reynolds' fashionable oil painting, Blake preferred the Classical precision of his early influences, Michelangelo and Raphael. |
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| Tolkien ardently rejected this opinion in the foreword to the second edition of the novel, stating he preferred applicability to allegory. |
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| A shy man, he did not welcome this fame, and preferred to be left in peace to compose and teach. |
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| Vaughan Williams's family would have preferred him to have remained at Charterhouse for two more years and then go on to Cambridge University. |
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| Although the organ was not his preferred instrument, the only post he ever held for an annual salary was as a church organist and choirmaster. |
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| In 2008, John stated he preferred civil partnerships over marriage for gay people. |
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| Regent Sound Studios, a mono facility equipped with egg boxes on the ceiling for sound treatment, became the preferred facility. |
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| He rejected a draft by Santha Rama Rau, responsible for the stage adaptation and Forster's preferred screenwriter, and wrote the script himself. |
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| Olivier would have preferred the roles to be reversed, but Richardson did not wish to attempt Lear. |
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| The early balls were made from wood and clay, but the rich preferred to use ivory. |
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| The older style of race favored older horses, but with the change in distances, younger horses became preferred. |
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| Argentina were talented but preferred a tougher approach to the game, which saw them reduced to ten men. |
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| Since 1995 the RFL have preferred to send the home nations as separate teams for World Cup purposes. |
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| The move was a concession given to conservatives, who preferred to keep the old flag, with its Union Flag in the canton. |
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| In 2001, the Northern Ireland Office introduced a system of substitutes as the preferred option. |
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| George Street, north of Princes Street, is the preferred location for some upmarket shops and independent stores. |
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| Washington still favored attacking New York, but the French decided to send the fleet to their preferred target at Yorktown. |
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| The navy said 22 September was the earliest possible date, and proposed postponement until the spring, but Hitler preferred September. |
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| Bomber pilots preferred close screening in which their formation was surrounded by pairs of fighters pursuing a zigzag course. |
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| We fighter pilots certainly preferred the free chase during the approach and over the target area. |
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| William Clito, who was King Louis's preferred choice, remained opposed to Henry and was therefore unsuitable. |
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| Its preferred habitat is scrub and gardens and it feeds on insects, worms, slugs, snails, newts and small rodents. |
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| The preferred habitat is dry ground, including scrub and gardens, and within the Isles of Scilly can be found on shingle beaches and sand dunes. |
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| While smaller and less expensive helicopters still use piston engines, turboshaft engines are the preferred powerplant for helicopters today. |
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| The arrival of British troops on the continent was considered a rarity, as the country preferred to make war by using its naval forces. |
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| As his daughter Degna later explained, he had paperwork to do and preferred the public stenographer aboard that vessel. |
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| Italian scooters were preferred for their cleanlined, curving shapes and gleaming chrome. |
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| Determinate types are preferred by commercial growers who wish to harvest a whole field at one time, or home growers interested in canning. |
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| However, Lamb remained MP for Newport for only two weeks before also being elected for Bletchingley, which he preferred to represent. |
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| Among Russian travelers not so burdened by classical toponymy, Balkan was the preferred term. |
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| If it was not preferred in Classical Latin, then it most likely came from the undocumented contemporaneous Vulgar Latin. |
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| While travelling on the mainland was quite exhausting, most people preferred to travel by ship on the Danube. |
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| Pork, chicken and beef are the preferred meats, but lamb and fish are also popular. |
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| One possible reason for this distribution is that the population preferred not to live in the forest except in troubled times. |
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| The mode of political organization preferred by anarchists, in general, is federalism or confederalism. |
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| The Huns preferred to fight at long range, utilizing ambush, encirclement, and the feigned retreat. |
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| In these cases, the enslaved people preferred rice that was part of their culture as opposed to the European preference for Carolina rice. |
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| Their main African base was in Mozambique, and therefore the Portuguese navigators preferred to use the Mozambique Channel to go to India. |
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| The brisket, ribs and loin are among the preferred parts, and the hump is considered a delicacy. |
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| From chemical composition to meat quality, the dromedary camel is the preferred breed for meat production. |
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| As Kozhikode offered full freedom and security, the Arab and the Chinese merchants preferred it to all other ports. |
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| Although candles can be used to light the hanukkiah, oil containers are preferred, to imitate the original Menorah. |
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| However, this method produces only a weak magnet so other methods are preferred. |
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| However, support for the rebels had begun to wane, and Isabella preferred a negotiated settlement to continuing the war. |
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| The Mexica supported Tezozomoc's preferred heir, Tayahauh, who was initially enthroned as king. |
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| People loyal to Atahualpa created a new capital in Quito, so they could follow their preferred ruler and gain favor within the government. |
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| Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present. |
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| Fine wool breeds are those that have wool of great crimp and density, which are preferred for textiles. |
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| It is possible that, early on, teosinte may have been gathered as preferred feed for domestic animals. |
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| They also differed in that their market greatly preferred the purchase of female slaves over male ones. |
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| Although they were present on the battlefield King Mathias preferred enlisting shielded men instead due to the arquebus's low rate of fire. |
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| Long pepper, being stronger, was often the preferred medication, but both were used. |
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| They preferred careers in the government bureaucracy, the military, or the church, shunning economic activities. |
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| Ancient Greek has free syntactic order, although SOV tended to be preferred by Classical Greeks. |
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| Since programmers like to keep their code brief, THRU is generally the preferred form of this keyword. |
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| Noteworthy exceptions are modern hinter, munter and unter, for which however Middle High German preferred hinder, munder, under. |
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| In Yorkshire and the North East, hisself and theirselves are preferred to himself and themselves. |
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| For example, he preferred the spelling ache over ake as he wrongly thought it came from the Greek achos. |
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| As a spelling reformer, Webster preferred spellings that matched pronunciation better. |
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| A few languages such as Banda have a bilabial flap as the preferred allophone of what is elsewhere a labiodental flap. |
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| The term objective case is generally preferred by modern English grammarians, where it supplanted Old English's dative and accusative. |
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| Currently, the song Gens du pays is by far preferred by many Quebecers to be the national anthem of Quebec. |
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| She preferred to smoke some good purple, but getting high wasn't an option. |
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| While waiting for the responses, the council also asked Servetus if he preferred to be judged in Vienne or in Geneva. |
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| Basel and Schaffhausen preferred quiet diplomacy while Zurich wanted armed conflict. |
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| Often they were held alongside a traditional service in order to cater to those who preferred contemporary worship music. |
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| Ordinarily, bills of indictment were preferred after there had been an examination before the magistrates. |
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| When the degree of progress is the same in pursuing peace and waging war, peace is to be preferred. |
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| Asquith felt he was not rich enough to accept, and would have preferred to die a commoner like Pitt or Gladstone. |
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| He decided that the time was coming for him to retire as leader, with Heath as his preferred successor. |
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| Barry disliked being away from London not liking life in the country, he preferred the bustle and society of the city. |
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| He preferred science to literature, he frequently attended the Friday night lectures held at the Royal Institution. |
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| They are trained that, ideally, no machine should stop working for more than one minute, with faster turn around times being preferred. |
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| Hardwood is preferred over softwood because it creates less smoke and burns longer. |
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| This was rejected by the British Army, who preferred the guns from Armstrong, but was used in the American Civil War. |
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| Hydrochloric acid is the preferred acid in titration for determining the amount of bases. |
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| Families and women, in particular, preferred it because it allowed them to generate income while taking care of household duties. |
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| A plain weave was preferred as the added skill and time required to make more complex weaves kept them from common use. |
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| Some British birds such as the whinchat and the nightjar use bracken as their preferred habitats. |
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| If preferred Middle Fell can be used as a stepping stone onto Seatallan from the same point. |
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| However, the term snap trap is preferred as other designations are misleading, particularly with respect to the intended prey. |
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| Small amounts of coal were dug during the Middle Ages but wood was plentiful and turf was preferred to coal which was inferior in quality. |
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| In neighbouring limestone areas, gritstone has often been preferred in the past for use as gateposts and lintels. |
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| Early agricultural peoples preferred good forests on hillsides with good drainage, and traces of cattle enclosures are evident there. |
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| In the end, I preferred Goblet of Fire because it's got that kind of cup of destiny feel about it, which is the theme of the book. |
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| In August 1976, the Department of the Environment announced the preferred route was through the National Park. |
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| His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person. |
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| In one of the coaches was a snack-bar, but uniformed attendants brought trays of food to those who preferred to remain seated. |
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| Disclosed examples and preferred embodiments do not constitute a teaching away from a broader disclosure or nonpreferred embodiments. |
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| A statement that a particular combination is not a preferred embodiment does not teach away absent clear discouragement of that combination. |
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| Kahn was not a big man and he had a voice that was a little more tenor than most preferred. |
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| She soon discovered that the customers preferred toplessness to cheaper drinks. |
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| He preferred the clarity of science and left the touchy-feely stuff to others. |
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| For the sale, UBN selected Aso Savings as the preferred bidder, after a bidding process. |
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| For the majority of organizations, tape backup is the preferred solution to protect Exchange. |
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| The preferred female shape was curvy with wasp waists and wide skirts over many underskirts. |
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| The LTA will provide ADAT and SR Technics a preferred pricing structure and world class Turn-Around-Time guarantee. |
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| Sceloporus occidentalism preferred body temperature of the western fence lizard. |
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| He ran well on his only appearance last year at Newmarket and is preferred to National Pride and Alabastrine. |
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| Alpha emitter provides many advantages when compared to beta emitters and photon therapy, making it an increasingly preferred mode of treatment. |
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| Therefore, surgery has traditionally been the preferred treatment for LM, despite the relatively recent successes of radiofrequency ablation. |
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| Arkansas required a louder and deeper tone to reach through the green timber and a raspier bark was preferred for the marshes of Cajun country. |
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| The corporation is recapitalized to create a class of voting preferred stock and a class of nonvoting common stock. |
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| It can be cut with either a rotary or a reel lawnmower but, for a more even look, a reel mower is preferred. |
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| Iranians preferred the populist they did not know to the crook they did. |
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| Their preferred 2016 nominee, Marco Rubio, looked a dead man walking. |
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| The Labradorian asked Nalcor Energy why Barnard-Pennecon was selected as the preferred contractor, as opposed to Astaldi Canada. |
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| The preferred location for the ostium created by DCR is through the lacrimal bone in the anterosuperior part of the lateral nasal wall. |
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| I've always preferred acting on stage to acting on film, but who knows where Lamda will take me? |
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| The architect had problems with the bishop, who preferred a traditional Latin cross plan and disliked the pagan associations of the Pantheon. |
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| Those who preferred barbells and dumbbells frequently wouldn't allow machines in their training rooms. |
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| Intimidation was widely practised by Ribbonmen and their like, and many magistrates preferred the quiet life. |
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| Rocamboles produce large cloves, which are easily peeled, making them preferred by chefs and food processors. |
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| The irony of it all was that while Brucher accorded great value to these collected seeds, the Soviet authorities preferred Lysenko's ideology and his primitive Lamarckism. |
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| Outdoor competition shooting is preferred under benign weather conditions, although conditions may change, competition is only abandoned when safety becomes an issue. |
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