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Instead, they
preferred
an opaque power-sharing system in which no identifiable person would bear ultimate responsibility for decisions.
Competing for lucrative contracts, global powers have
preferred
to avoid offending Nigeria’s government by drawing attention to its inability to protect its citizens or hold criminals accountable.
Very close species may have similar behavioral systems and, in the case of our close predecessors, the shared features probably included many traits we have
preferred
to consider the monopoly of our species, including symbolic behavior.
These leaders
preferred
terrorism, because they were not ready for a historic compromise with the Jewish state.
Indeed, the Socialists opposed de Gaulle’s decision to withdraw France from NATO’s unified military command, opposed the creation of an independent French nuclear arsenal (they
preferred
the American nuclear guarantee), and were hostile to de Gaulle’s rupture with Israel after the Six Day War.
Of course, like any shrewd politician, Thatcher knew which battles were unwinnable, or had to be postponed; but she always
preferred
winning a fight to reaching a compromise.
He
preferred
to help steer Europe toward monetary and political union, just when its economy had begun to fall behind the rest of the world.
Voters in Argentina and Peru recently
preferred
successful businessmen (Mauricio Macri and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, respectively) to the populist alternatives, whether left or right.
But it is beginning to emerge that many also
preferred
to stay in a social environment that they trusted rather than fleeing to safer, but foreign, surroundings.
They should therefore be
preferred
mates.
Respondents were nearly evenly split on the question of arranged marriages, with half supporting the idea that marriage should be based on parental consent, while 48%
preferred
love as the basis of matrimony.
These lower-cost alternatives are fast becoming developed-country investors’
preferred
destinations.
From creating employment opportunities to providing direct investment in infrastructure, China has been a partner to Africa when many Western investors
preferred
to stay away.
He
preferred
humor to hectoring, gently making fun of those whom he criticized, while always making sure that even the most severe intellectual critique did not deny the humanity of his opponents.
They
preferred
to be paid without working.
But the profession’s internal critics are wrong to claim that the discipline has gone wrong because economists have yet to reach consensus on the “correct” models (their
preferred
ones of course).
The
preferred
Chinese way would be that of cooptation and dialogue.
Given the fiscal excesses of the 1970s and the need to control public spending, the alleged neutrality of the market was
preferred
to government intervention as a mechanism to allocate taxpayers’ money.
Many emerging markets
preferred
to self-insure by accumulating reserves rather than borrow from the Fund.
Doing so usually leads to a focus on policies that are
preferred
by all members – such as lower taxes – instead of measures that are important to the productivity of each member.
Before 2010, most Asian countries would have
preferred
not to choose between China and the US.
Not even 10% of Israelis would have
preferred
the opposition leader, the Labor Party’s Yitzhak Herzog, as Prime Minister.
Then there were those who
preferred
not to fight any enemy at all, particularly the US, whose long-term war-making power, the government knew, far surpassed Japan’s own.
But Trump and Bannon apparently
preferred
not to think about that.
Instead of letting the renminbi appreciate and gradually reducing their reliance on export markets, the Chinese authorities
preferred
to accumulate foreign reserves (US Treasury debt).
Creditors and banks often
preferred
to do business with known borrowers, and where local jurisdictions could settle any disputes.
The second is the one
preferred
by political scientists and European visionaries: greater fiscal union among the 17 eurozone members, or, in blunt terms, German willingness to do for the eurozone what it did for eastern Germany – namely, write large checks for years to come.
They
preferred
control (which is not taxed) to income (which is taxed and at high rates).
For instance, many users
preferred
the word-processing program WordPerfect to Microsoft’s Word, but the ease of having a bundled solution meant that Word had the advantage of being used more widely, and thus drove its rival into extinction.
When in Prussia, he
preferred
his "Wolf's Lair" forest headquarters.
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