Definition of Preferred

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Definition of Preferred
	Preferred of Prefer Related Definitions: Of, Prefer

Preferred Quotations

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
Marilyn vos Savant

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
Man Ray

Preferred Translations

preferred in German is bevorzugt

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