Unlike William, he had never had a steady girlfriend, preferring instead to play the field. |
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It's too subtle for that, preferring to transpose space and time to introduce us to real and believable characters. |
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Jonah was a good batsman, which made up for his lack of ability with the bat, preferring to field at mid-off. |
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I never really take any shoes myself preferring trainers as these are more suitable for the types of nights out you have in these places. |
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They spurn soya shepherd's pie and nut cutlets, preferring the more exotic polenta with wild mushrooms or Thai stir-fry. |
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Letwin and Howard are more cautious, preferring targeted cuts in areas such as inheritance tax and stamp duty. |
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I have long been in a minority of one among my friends in preferring the Flat to National Hunt. |
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Blacksmith are plankton feeders preferring zooplankton, including copepods, and the eggs and larvae of other marine organisms. |
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Often doctors and patients don't trust generic medications, preferring the brand name drugs. |
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The Spanish press comments that she rarely wears jewels, preferring showy costume earrings, necklaces and trinkets. |
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He trusts fewer and fewer goons henchmen ministers, preferring unelected brown-nosers. |
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After counselling, she declined the insertion of an intrauterine contraceptive device, preferring the progestogen only regimen. |
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Beetles are frequently associated with poultry feed, preferring grain and cereal products that are damp, moldy and slightly out of condition. |
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He doesn't use a plectrum, preferring to stroke out bass notes with his thumb. |
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It lives in arid and semi-arid areas with little vegetation, preferring highlands and rocky landscapes. |
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Being alive is a very intense experience, we all shy away from it preferring an ambulatory twilight sleep. |
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Unlike most South Africans, he is not fond of beer, preferring cider, which is not sold here. |
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He eschews the uniform of the boardroom boss, preferring sports jackets and casual boots to the traditional Savile Row suit and handmade brogues. |
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Morphinists can take regular meals, preferring well flavored and sour articles, such as curry, pickles, etc. |
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I also curse my lack of preparedness, preferring in my slipshod diva manner to leave all decorating and shopping to the last minute. |
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For fishermen preferring finesse to power, the challenge is to catch bonefish, kingfish and the sleek torpedo-shaped bonito on the fly. |
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Remote and uncommunicative was their description as Whyte avoided the hoi polloi, preferring to spend time with the corporate elite. |
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Trinity College were unforthcoming, preferring not to hold a public debate on such sensitive matters. |
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This man was underhanded and sneaky, preferring to let others do the fighting for him. |
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People no longer like plain insipid soups, preferring instead spicy offerings with an unusual combination of ingredients. |
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He was a brilliant fielder preferring to field in the deep, where he took some outstanding catches, to close in fielding. |
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The rule developed during a period of extreme formality and technicality in the preferring of indictments and laying of informations. |
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But Sid wasn't really the type that offered up information easily, preferring to have his barmates ferret it out of him. |
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I've never been much of a fashion victim, preferring styles that I believe suit me rather than the trends of the day. |
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Given the distance, most people tend not to import goods, preferring to furnish their properties in the local style. |
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He's not really a sweater person, preferring the comfort of polyester fleece to wool. |
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He said he never felt afflicted by the disease, preferring fresh coconut water from Savannah vendors to the drugs recommended by his doctors. |
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In his most characteristic works he carved directly in stone, preferring a hard stone with a coarse texture. |
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But if it is true, humanity owes much of its success to women long ago preferring men of wit and intelligence over musclebound hunks. |
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Aristotle was charged with preferring flimsy theories and sterile syllogisms to the solid, fertile facts. |
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I was no ladylike girl, but a tomboy, preferring riding, archery and swordplay to the more ladylike pursuits of dancing, embroidery and crochet. |
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Beckett never explained just who or what Godot is, preferring to let generations of theatre types hem and haw over the possibilities. |
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The new Iowa State University Crop Adviser Institute offers Internet or CD-ROM training modules to certified crop advisers preferring home study. |
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Working on soaked and stretched Arches paper, Reiger uses many media on one surface, preferring watercolor, sumi inks, acrylic and graphite. |
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It seems to be working as the family audience are slowly preferring it over other films. |
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He neither drinks, nor smokes, preferring transcendental meditation to the highs attained through substance abuse. |
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But there was an unequal ratio with male students outnumbering their female counterparts in preferring Australia for taking up higher education. |
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Judicial activists also downplay stare decisis, preferring to remedy perceived judicial errors. |
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Tents were a luxury that most couldn't afford in those pre-wars days, preferring a doss in a cave or on the floor of a roadman's hut. |
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Given that both constructions are tenable, I have not the least hesitation in preferring the latter. |
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In science class, you abhorred textbooks, preferring to learn through experimentation. |
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Cake, doughnuts and chocolate are the favourite snacks of many workers, with just seven per cent preferring healthy options such as fruit. |
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Culinary relativism is no longer an excuse for preferring gefilte fish to seafood quenelles. |
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He is not an advocate of clerical activism, preferring the traditional quietist approach to politics. |
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In that case, the physicians argued that the trial judge had erred in preferring one responsible body of professional opinion to another. |
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In contrast, Bermuda's papers almost never do, preferring to confine the foreign news deep inside the paper. |
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Bettie, now preferring the name Marilyn, had been on and off of heroin for years now but it was the first junk needle Callahan had let near her. |
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The Bush version excises the whole section on conclusions, preferring not to comment on the likely consequences of oil exploration. |
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They have been avoiding the whole Los Angeles scene, preferring to keep to themselves. |
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Often we artists are a solitary lot, preferring to keep our work to ourselves until we deem it fit for sharing. |
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Downloads to mobile phones show a sharp division between the sexes with men going for games and women preferring ringtones. |
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She never really went for the sparkling golden boys, preferring the calmer, more measured, determined types. |
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He doesn't go in for the trappings of stardom, preferring a quiet family life. |
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True, he has ceased calling himself an artist in interviews, preferring to be regarded as an enlightener and inventor, as a scientist. |
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Cousin to the dog, the gray wolf is a highly social animal, preferring to live in packs. |
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By 1980, major record companies disdained the music, preferring the slicker stylings of the new wave. |
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I have little hesitation in preferring the evidence of Mr Knowles and Professor Luckham on this issue. |
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He will set no time limit for their possible emergence into the senior squad at Maine Road, preferring to allow them to find their own level. |
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Mexicans and Central Americans tend to snack less than U.S. citizens and Canadians, preferring to eat only at mealtimes. |
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Chaetodon capistratus is a browser who feeds on anthozoans preferring hexacoral such as scleractinians, anemones, and zoantharians. |
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For in the realm of diagnosis and treatment negligence is not established by preferring one respectable body of opinion to another. |
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The capitalist profit motive is antagonistic to public health, preferring to treat illness rather than preventing it. |
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Now a confirmed bachelor preferring the company of the grisettes at Maxim's, he shuns Hanna, who nevertheless sets out to win him. |
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In general, he left little room for the addition of more than the simplest graces, preferring to write out intricate Italian-style ornamentation. |
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But he almost never treats it at face value, preferring to allow interpretive openings into this method of interpretation. |
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Neither one had much appreciation for fine art, preferring museums of archeology, natural history and science. |
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The LIttle Grassbird is found in swamps and marshes, preferring thick reed beds, and will occur in temporary wetlands after rains. |
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The Japanese do not often cook gobo as a vegetable in its own right, preferring to combine it with other vegetables. |
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They are mainly arboreal, preferring to stay in the trees and larger shrubs. |
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He tries to make as little hay as possible, preferring to stockpile grass and make haylage. |
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Gerry favors a high forage diet, preferring baled hay and haylage over corn silage, and says that the cows require no additional protein. |
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The Scot hardly spent any time planning or visualising the climb ahead, preferring just to get on with it. |
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He shuns the high-gloss artificiality of big studio productions, preferring a gritty, jittery vision borne of handheld, digital camerawork. |
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The Prosecutor, before preferring the charges against the accused, looks for and gathers the evidence. |
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More to the point, he'd lost his interest in life, preferring to dwell on the past rather than look to the future. |
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Although preferring the dainty white florets of garlic mustard, they occasionally sample a bluebell or two. |
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Einstein also had philosophical reasons for preferring large-scale smoothness, stemming from an idea called Mach's principle. |
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Prior to 1917 the Bolsheviks had opposed the concept of federalism, preferring regional autonomy within a unitary state. |
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The New Forest will also change, with rare reptiles such as the sand lizard and smooth snake preferring the warmer conditions. |
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She knows what the problems are but she refuses to face them head on, preferring sticking plaster solutions instead. |
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I didn't apply myself, preferring to spend most of high school in a gloom, so I got only average results except in English. |
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The kinds of birds and animals that have not yet returned are mostly species preferring old-growth forest habitat. |
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He doesn't rule by fear, preferring instead to foster team spirit and loyalty. |
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We rarely buy a newspaper, preferring to read the news on the internet or using teletext. |
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A biography would bore her, she says, preferring to fill in the gaps left by earlier writers and to give them a fresh, contemporary perspective. |
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They invested in more land, preferring to extend the scale of their operations rather than sink capital into improved productivity. |
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He stayed away from tenebrism, preferring a more even balance between line and light. |
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Grasses and bamboos, on the other hand, hate disturbance at this time of year, preferring to be worked on in the spring or early summer. |
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Mira rejected the official history that viewed her mother as a traitor, preferring instead to cast her as a martyr to the partisan cause. |
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Although it is hard to play favourites with such a loveable bunch of dags, I must confess to preferring mum Janelle to the rest. |
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He has few mates, preferring the company of his current partner, two children from different couplings, a hound and local goats. |
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Yet her fund-raisers and staff have not moved to quell Democrat hopes, preferring that the rumour mill keep on running. |
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Will high culture drive into the cul-de-sac of formalism, preferring museality to the contaminations of experience? |
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By contrast, Salem makers almost never used a single bead on the inside edge, preferring widely or closely spaced double beads. |
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Pine voles inhabit timbered areas, preferring a subterranean life in the soil. |
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There are as many as five species that have been crossed, to produce that perfect fleshy pink or whatever colour she is preferring at the moment. |
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Nuala Ryan, said the women travellers, in the main, want to be housed but the menfolk do not, preferring to remain on the side of the road. |
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Progressives hate the messiness of this, preferring the direct application of reason by the intelligent elite. |
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Zylka was never had ambitions of acting growing up, preferring instead to play football and tag graffiti. |
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He hated actually dealing with business matters, preferring to play the role of the likable artiste. |
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Men may refuse the challenge of trying to right a ship on the verge of capsize, preferring to wait for an easier test. |
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Just as many modern restaurateurs think you should do without a cruet, some modish winemakers abjure oak, preferring to let the grapes speak for themselves. |
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A handful of states do not recognize Columbus Day, preferring alternative commemorations. |
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She said Luke had become withdrawn since the bullying, preferring to stay indoors, sleeping till late in the afternoon and wetting the bed regularly. |
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While meadow voles rarely leave grassy fields to enter forests, white-footed mice are generalists, preferring forests but frequenting old fields as well. |
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Her curating had that same mix of qualities, preferring loose links between works to hammered-out argument. |
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Smallest woodpecker and often elusive preferring the tops of trees. |
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Recruitment drives all but disappeared this year, with all companies preferring to retrain and rotate staff in an effort to maximise existing company resources. |
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I am not a biker, preferring off-road motorcycle sport, but because of the foot and mouth crisis I was considering buying a road bike to use this summer. |
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He outlined the practice of audism in which deaf people shun the traditional deaf community and signing, preferring to use residual hearing, speech and lip-reading. |
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Barely anyone valued the river, preferring instead to live at lofty heights that kissed the clouds, so I had been able to rent a small apartment overlooking the Effenlie. |
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As I mentioned in a previous post, most grocery stores have very few artisanal breads, preferring the shelf life and profit margins of the bagged sliced breads. |
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He rejects the convention of wearing white tie and tails, preferring to conduct in a loose, floppy shirt that better suits his loose, floppy style. |
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In the other are those who forcefully reject new tourist attractions, preferring to remain a quaint backwater, undisturbed by 21st-century concerns. |
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In general he eschewed complicated effects of pulsating or flashing lights, preferring a bare and simple presentation that brought him within the orbit of Minimal art. |
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Pizzetti is the artist who has rejected the volatile and ephemeral seductions of fashion and the servitude to others by preferring loyalty to himself. |
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I have eschewed cough syrups and lozenges preferring to suck on the occasional spoonful of honey, which seems to soothe the tickle enough to let me get to sleep. |
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We hired no bearers, preferring to transport our own expedition. |
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A tutu clad Swift refuses to pirouette with her fellow ballerinas, preferring to pelvic thrust like a rebel instead. |
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Unlike some serious walkers, she said she shuns isotonic sports drinks and energy bars to refuel her body during walks, preferring instead to drink water and munch nuts. |
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I never wore the fancy gowns and dresses of the town girls, much preferring the worn leggings and tunics handed down to me when they became to small for my brothers. |
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Generally, the Bolognese exhibited less of a taste for philosophical issues than the Neapolitans, preferring to address concrete problems in specific fields such as anatomy. |
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The raiders gave up their hunt for booty and did not try and steal anything from the salon, preferring instead, it appears, to beat a shame-faced retreat. |
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Mature larvae of the hide beetle, Dermestes maculatus, have the habit of boring into various hard surfaces to pupate, usually preferring softwoods. |
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Kennedy disliked having girlfriends, preferring one-off conquests instead, but made an exception for Mary Meyer. |
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Periods of decreased river flow enlarge the proportion of the estuary habitat favored by stenohaline organisms preferring highly saline conditions. |
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He no doubt could have been roused to fury if a real kafir contributed to his younger brother preferring a-h-h-h-h to Allah. |
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He brings little passion to the part, preferring instead to present Andre as a low-key, open-faced friend of the people who's almost too good to be true. |
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Even those who have the opportunity of viewing their child at a chapel of rest may still choose not to do so, preferring to remember their child as they were in life. |
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History shows that many kings met their tragic ends because they did not pay heed to the advice of faithful courtiers, preferring the honeyed but false words of sycophants. |
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He is evident here, too, as a distinctive colourist, preferring quieter pinks, violets and yellows to the bolder oranges, reds, greens and blues of Bellini and Titian. |
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Despite the best efforts of Hollywood's image-spinners, she refuses to play the game, preferring to relax, ignore the hype, and flaunt her coltish figure. |
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As fashion has readmitted fur, designers have continued to steer clear of old-fashioned pelts, preferring to woo fur virgins with fitch, wolf and coyote. |
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Ehlers may alienate those uninterested in being taken on a tour through dissonant post-classical territories, preferring instead a stay in pleasanter climes. |
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Going forward, neither party will be drawn on joint development potential, preferring instead to point to the synergies and cross-selling opportunities that exist. |
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The choice of fluid to use for resuscitation varies widely, with some centers preferring crystalloid solutions while others use albumin or other colloid solutions. |
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He confesses to another, personal reason for preferring the incumbent. |
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Couples preferring a civil ceremony are increasingly choosing an approved location such as a hotel or stately home with a licence rather than a register office. |
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People have become lazy, preferring their favourite programmes to films. |
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They look at the stupid action on the part of the police, in preferring those charges against Mr Ardern, and ask just what planet these people are on. |
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The record doesn't want you to just kick back and listen, preferring to taunt you from your chair via head-nodding blues punch-ups and brawling rock 'n' roll. |
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People rarely walked up this way to Tamberly Road and the large houses looming at the end of it, preferring to purr their way up in sleek black cars. |
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Laboratory mice deficient in the gene were found to consume excessive amounts of alcohol, preferring ethanol to water and evincing highly anxious behavior in a maze test. |
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She does without herbicides as well, preferring to weed by hand. |
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She eschews the politics of personality, protecting her privacy, tending to shy away from the media and preferring to play her role dead straight. |
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Can you blame me for preferring cosy dreamland to horrible reality? |
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From then on, the Portuguese were infrequent visitors to the islands preferring to buy their nutmeg from traders in Malacca. |
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However, he was not Denis' favourite son, the old king preferring his illegitimate son, Afonso Sanches. |
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In the circumstances, the period occupied in preferring appeals to the President and the Prime Minister was not incondonable. |
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Unlike Julius, Alexander never made war unless absolutely necessary, preferring negotiation and diplomacy. |
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Abdullah has not yet revealed his choice for the No 2 post when he takes over as prime minister, preferring to keep his cards close to his chest. |
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The conquistador borrowed as little as possible, preferring to invest all their belongings. |
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Some traditional priests are deserting for the Roman church, presumably preferring paedophiles to pederasts. |
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Others have stayed on, preferring the comfort of a cold bed and the heat of the Hungarian brandy palinka. |
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In a touching move her family cancelled their Christmas celebrations, preferring to wait until Paige left hospital in January. |
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They are described as preferring to defeat their enemies by deceit, surprise attacks, and cutting off supplies. |
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She's influenced by Keith Jarrett as opposed to, say, Don Pullen, preferring cool flourishes to earthy percussiveness. |
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And when we get there, we don't send a postcard home, as a rule, preferring the convenience of sending a picture message instead. |
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Rowling recalls doing little work, preferring to listen to The Smiths and read Dickens and Tolkien. |
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However, Sikhism has never had a literal system of angels, preferring guidance without explicit appeal to supernatural orders or beings. |
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More and more consumers have started preferring dairy product packaging materials that are environment friendly. |
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Platonically, the unfallen inhabitants of Malacandra disdain reading, preferring to know, and reaffirm what they know through conversation. |
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The number of species preferring dry desert habitat is small compared to the above but several species of lark and wheatear can be encountered. |
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England's seamers operated mostly at a full length from the outset, preferring to seek outswing rather than bounce. |
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He refuses to sanctify and symbolize any allegory of passing, preferring to create a kind of textual and materialist version of cryptal art. |
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After the Watson tragedy Eubank never again showed any desire to knock opponents out, preferring to retain his title through points victories. |
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He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital. |
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Two of Carol Smillie's kids also give pasta the thumbs up preferring family favourites spaghetti bolognaise and macaroni cheese. |
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George I took little interest in Windsor Castle, preferring his other palaces at St James's, Hampton Court and Kensington. |
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With these hot nights most of us had ditched our pyjamas, preferring our birthday suit in bed. |
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The Villa boss will certainly not be spending January pumping iron in the gym, preferring instead to use stress to stay in shape. |
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Many are reluctant to embrace creative innovation, preferring trite, formulaic approaches. |
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The man remains perched firmly on top of his woman, with 61 per cent women preferring the missionary position. |
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He has a few favorite trees he will not harvest, preferring to leave them as seed trees, and he refuses to fell mature hemlock. |
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He is playing to the gallery of maximalists on domestic surveillance and is preferring them over the general public. |
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The Naga use oil sparingly, preferring to ferment, dry, and smoke their meats and fish. |
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Red squirrels occupy boreal, coniferous woods in northern Europe and Siberia, preferring Scots pine, Norway spruce and Siberian pine. |
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Many of Llywelyn's Welsh allies had abandoned him during England's invasion of Gwynedd, preferring an overlord far away rather than one nearby. |
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In Abbo's version of events, the king refused to meet the Danes in battle, preferring to die a martyr's death. |
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Whereas Hopkins, preferring the spontaneity of a fresh take, liked to keep rehearsals to a minimum, Winger rehearsed continuously. |
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While generally preferring the sound of guest vocalists, Oldfield has frequently sung both lead and backup parts for his songs and compositions. |
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He was an undistinguished pupil who shied away from school, preferring reading. |
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Lord Chancellor Gardiner and the House of Commons petitioned Mary to consider marrying an Englishman, preferring Edward Courtenay. |
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He lacks Sherlock's interest in physical investigation, however, preferring to spend his time at the Diogenes Club. |
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Indians resisted cultivating sugarcane themselves, preferring to tend their subsistence crops. |
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Queen Elizabeth II does not play, preferring racing demon, complicated games of solitaire and six-deck bezique. |
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Fortunately for the others on that same lonely bitumen, he gave up drinking and driving big rigs, preferring to cameleer in the Northern Territory. |
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Some declining species, such as the ringed plover and bar-tailed godwit seem to be shifting away from wintering in Wales, preferring to spend the winter in continental Europe. |
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And now he has stirred another storm by preferring to be sent to judicial custody as he refused to furnish a bail bond in the Nitin Gadkari defamation case. |
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In this land, too, there dwelled a young man who was a fowler, but a bit of a strange bird he was, for he only captured his birds, preferring not to slaughter them. |
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Archbishop Aspinall has also stated that he does not take an official position on the ordination of gay clergy, preferring instead to encourage respectful conversation. |
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In 1906, the Arctic explorer Sir Martin Conway thought that the Spitzbergen spelling was incorrect, preferring Spitsbergen as he noted that the name was Dutch, not German. |
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Carloman resigned office in 746, preferring to enter the church as a monk. |
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Except for the London trained bands, both sides in the Civil War made little use of the militia, preferring to recruit their armies by other means. |
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George II rarely used Windsor either, preferring Hampton Court. |
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However, the Cherbourg workers do not lean towards radical or revolutionary movements, nor to yellow unionism, traditionally preferring the reformist tendencies. |
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The navy of the Ottoman Empire only sortied out of the Dardanelles once late in the war during the Battle of Imbros, preferring to focus its operations in the Black Sea. |
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The chief executive, Brian McMaster, did not appoint a replacement to Geliot as principal director during the 1980s, preferring to engage guest producers. |
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Shelburne was initially hesitant to granting full American independence, instead preferring the colonies accept Dominion status, though such intentions were never realized. |
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Those preferring the Roman tonsure considered the Celtic custom extremely unorthodox, and associated it with the form of tonsure worn by the heresiarch Simon Magus. |
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Constantine himself disliked the risks to societal stability that religious disputes and controversies brought with them, preferring where possible to establish an orthodoxy. |
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Following this machine aesthetic, modernist designers typically rejected decorative motifs in design, preferring to emphasize the materials used and pure geometrical forms. |
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Eleanor attended the local Methodist church, whereas George would not regularly attend church, preferring on Sundays to work on engineering problems and meet his friends. |
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Initially the Court took a restrictive view on what consisted of torture, preferring to find that states had inflicted inhuman and degrading treatment. |
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While defending ourselves is a must, it might have been nice had a French Socialist president stepped up as an educator, preferring pedagogy to demagogy. |
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They refused to attribute the defeat at Tenerife to him, preferring instead to blame poor planning on the part of St Vincent, the Secretary at War or even William Pitt. |
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Philip II's successor, Philip III, was a man of limited ability, uninterested in politics and preferring to delegate management of the empire to others. |
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Do not miss the Lofoten and Vesterlen islands, while Hammerfest, 'the world's northernmost town', and Troms are good alternatives for those preferring a more 'urban' setting. |
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Though Prokovsky sometimes prolongs a scene, or overdresses it with too many characters, audiences usually respond joyously, preferring excess to understatement. |
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The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics. |
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Leibold says the Sierra Club opposes shooting burros, preferring the adopt-a-burro policy jointly pursued by the Bureau of Land Management and NPS at Lake Mead in Nevada. |
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Dry cleaning, it appears, is a discretionary spend, with consumers preferring to go a bit niffy rather than fork out pounds 10 to have a suit cleaned. |
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One of the highlights is expected to be Stella McCartney's much-anticipated return to London's catwalks after preferring to use Paris Fashion Week to showcase her designs. |
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Assimilators usually show a higher degree of anxiety than those preferring Integration, but they are also agreeable, friendly, and not aggressive. |
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Many brawlers tend to lack mobility, preferring a less mobile, more stable platform and have difficulty pursuing fighters who are fast on their feet. |
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