It has taken a while for the management to recognise that England's approach to one-day cricket is more tentative and shackled than most of their opponents, and while it is always possible to over-attack, it would be preferable to see them fail while trying to lift their game than to watch the batsmen prodding about and apparently frightened of failure.
Your intention to win must be forcefully communicated, not just because it is preferable to losing, but because the alternative to victory in this War for the Free World is unacceptable.
" Dobson has written a letter to his supporters saying, "I believe a Republican meltdown is preferable to enabling the present disregard for the moral agenda to continue.
Fundamentally, unless you're going to be shopping for groceries every day, it'd be preferable to work out your diet on a weekly basis, but there's no evident way to offer this up in Nutrino's present form.
ENGADGET: Nutrino is a virtual nutritionist for iOS, we go hands-on
That would be less preferable to Andreessen as CEO but still a pretty close second.
"Enabling the private sector to accomplish this goal is preferable to taxpayer funded efforts, " Churchill says.
This is a key reason many economists consider mild inflation to be preferable to mild deflation.
In other words, more quality educational play-time is preferable to more testing, measuring, and evaluating.
But the expense of new drugs is preferable to not having them at all.
WSJ: Should Patents on Pharmaceuticals Be Extended to Encourage Innovation?
Smart leaders understand an open position is preferable to filling a position with the wrong candidate.
This is preferable to snacking, says dietitian and nutrition blogger Jenna A. Bell.
In fact, they are preferable to ill-fated acquisitions, bad business decisions and lackluster product lines.
He thinks devaluation is usually preferable to raising interest rates to prop up a currency.
Conducting a plebiscite is not easy, but it is preferable to another 80 years of conflict.
After nearly four years of siege, even a flawed settlement is preferable to war.
Fighting a war on our terms is eminently preferable to fighting one on Iran's.
It should be clearly preferable to be a friend of the United States, not its enemy.
When it comes to papermaking, long fibres of cellulose are preferable to short ones.
It is always preferable to have the informed consent of Congress prior to any military action.
But that is surely preferable to the alternative: utter silence or uncritical support for the government.
For McGaughey, being the favorite in the Preakness is preferable to coming in as the long shot.
After much soul searching, I've decided that a plain marshmallow peep is preferable to one dipped in chocolate.
In fact, for the single viewer it might even be preferable to TV for certain kinds of shows.
It is very possible, and preferable, to have truth and compassion co-exist without being subject to political correctness.
Perhaps they believe that even a deteriorating status quo is preferable to a heightened risk of sudden change.
He is not universally liked in the army, but is regarded as preferable to one of the in-laws.
Germanium still offers certain attributes that are preferable to those of silicon, so it has its own niche market.
Plain and ordinary is preferable to the pretentious signature buildings of celebrity architects.
Shareholders are likely to consider these arrangements preferable to losing or diminishing the motivation of a high-performing chief executive.
Industry groups, though, maintain that self-regulation is preferable to government requirements for a fast-changing, global medium like the Internet.
应用推荐