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.
" 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.
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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.
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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.
After nearly four years of siege, even a flawed settlement is preferable to war.
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.
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.
Perhaps they believe that even a deteriorating status quo is preferable to a heightened risk of sudden change.
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.
For all its sabre-rattling, Israel still says that diplomacy is preferable to war.
Voluntary subscription is also preferable to the compulsory, universal variety that pays for the BBC and other European public broadcasters.
In the small towns of Chumbivilcas, this may be preferable to living side-by-side with someone you harbour negative feelings toward.
But a deal may prove preferable to more years of court cases and the continued enrichment of the lawyers involved.
And it wouldn't surprise me if other MPs found the job of Police Commissioner for their area preferable to backbench life.
Obviously, it would be preferable to mount that operation in vehicles that are faster and better protected than the 40-year-old AAV.
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For us, it's still preferable to placing the buttons along the top edge-- especially on a bigger-screened device like the Eluga.
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