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While 40% of Ukrainians, based mainly in Yanukovych’s electoral heartland in the east and south of the country, would prefer to join the Customs Union, 60% of voters see their future with or in the EU.
What politician wouldn’t prefer money that gives him more freedom to do what he likes?
Likewise, weaker eurozone economies like Greece and Spain, which would prefer stronger monetary stimulus than their more competitive counterparts in Europe are willing to accept, may suffer.
The new NATO operational fund would clearly be more equitable than today’s system, which penalizes proactive member states and rewards members that prefer to do nothing.
Indeed, some in the developed world would prefer a smaller, more exclusive body – a G-14 or even a new G-7.
The question is whether key HDZ leaders prefer losing the presidency (and that is where real power in Croatia lies) to Granic's ascending the throne.
Because a parliamentary system usually results in predictable outcomes, with the ruling majority typically getting its way, India’s opposition MPs (and any government MPs who disagree with the cabinet’s position on a specific issue) prefer disruption to debate.
Indonesia’s government would undoubtedly prefer to see Ba’asyir languish in jail, but without any legal measure to justify continued detention, it had little option but to release him.
For example, in several countries, stable patients who prefer to visit their health-care provider less often receive multi-month supplies of medications.
More inequality led legislators, at least in that case, to prefer less competition and less expansion in lending.
I, for one, prefer making political decisions to wallowing in doubt and self-pity.
In fact, a majority of Europe’s citizens prefer that European forces be deployed only for non-combat missions.
Faced with the prospect of monotonous, repetitive work for eight hours a day on an assembly line or flipping hamburgers, they prefer the higher pay and shorter hours that the sex industry offers.
So the government will prefer to muddle through the crisis, rather than risk any decisive reform.
Democracies, for example, tend to use torture secretly and prefer techniques that target core psychological, neural, and physiological functions.
But suspicion of the IMF persists, and most countries, especially in Asia, still prefer costly self-insurance to a form of mutualization perceived as uncertain.
While universities and industry may be wary of taxation, they might prefer a tissue tax over endless negotiations with countless tissue donors over the sharing of uncertain future benefits.
Turkey would prefer that Kirkuk, with its large Turkmen population, be given special status in the forthcoming draft Iraqi constitution.
For example, in the standard economic analysis of workplace gender discrimination, men do not like to associate with women on the job – in the same way that they might prefer apples to oranges.
Given the differing views of President Dmitri Medvedev and former President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin – the main candidates in next year’s presidential election – many Russian bureaucrats prefer to avoid offering bold initiatives regarding BMD or other strategic arms-control issues until they know who the next president will be.
Is there something in their DNA that makes them prefer the status quo so much that, more often than not, they are taken aback by rapid changes, neither foreseeing them nor knowing how to respond once they begin?
There are not two or three Argentina's, one following the experiment that I described above, and another adopting the policies that I prefer.
While the Chinese may have good reasons to prefer the status quo on the Korean Peninsula, continuing to indulge the North Korean leadership’s nuclear ambitions is a risky option.
Leaders of the poor prefer to romanticize the past.
The Europeans would prefer to withdraw sooner rather than later, and the US will probably follow suit.
I, too, prefer an environment in which governments do not interfere with imports and exports, and in which US firms can operate freely in foreign countries.
If you want America to lead by the power of example, you favor Barack Obama; if you want to be reassured by the continuation of America’s power in a traditional security sense, you probably prefer John McCain.
A very conservative regime naturally tends to prefer a Republican candidate over a Democrat.
With universities having become so accessible, Chinese families will continue to prefer them to what they consider second-class schools.
Importers prefer a strong exchange rate; exporters prefer a weak one.
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