I chose to look the other way.

Claire Ulrich also favored A Suitable Boy as a must read.

Alem Dechasa, the Ethiopian domestic worker in Lebanon whose abuse video sparked anger amongst Ethiopians, preferred to commit suicide by hanging herself using her bed sheets last Wednesday 14 March, 2012.

The girls told me to just use vegetable oil (probably because it's cheaper), but I opted for the good stuff.

So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.

Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.

Others, however, felt that it should be addressed in article 1, but in a separate paragraph.

The policies chosen are different, but all states favor solutions that seem most appropriate to them.

At the time the French government favoured new technology, exploring the production of hovercraft and the Aérotrain air cushion vehicle.

What is curious about this development is that the subcontinent has preferred to forget the monstrous injustices that have scarred its recent history.

Being a small country and a consumer of foreign technology, Ecuador has favored research supported by entrepreneurship in information technology.

This tax cutting frenzy comes, incredibly, after three decades of elite fiscal rule in the US that has favored the rich and powerful.

But, despite past US administrations opportunity to make their influence felt, they preferred to permit Israel, an allied, friendly state, to do what it wanted.

Britain and France had turned away from internationalism, adopting trade systems known as Imperial Preference, which favored their vast overseas empires.

Simultaneously, banks gave preference to shedding assets outside their national borders, and risk managers try to match assets and liabilities at home, rather than within the eurozone as a whole.

In some cases successor regimes favoured reconciliation over accountability, and the result is impunity for grave breaches of IHL and other human rights violations.

In this connection, some delegations favoured a non binding instrument in the form of a declaration, guiding principles or a model law, which might serve as a guide for States and also as a basis for a future convention.

This led to the use of the variant Méjico in many publications in Spanish, most notably in Spain, whereas in Mexico and most other Spanish speaking countries México was the preferred spelling.

In some cases New Zealand had preferred the initial proposals, but it felt that the draft articles as adopted on first reading were a sound product with a reasonable mix of codification and sensible progressive development.

The UK wanted a system in which global liquidity would be regulated by a multilateral institution, while the US, for self interested reasons, preferred a dollar based system.

When unemployment rates in Iraq soared to 60 , hiring Iraqis would have made sense but the contractors preferred to import cheap labor from Nepal, Philippines, and other countries.

While acknowledging that issues surrounding compensation for losses to global commons were unique and complex and required separate treatment, some delegations would have preferred the application of the draft principles to the global commons.

With another general election due next year, civil society groups preferred that priority be given to lowering the 10 electoral threshold for parties to enter parliament, thus broadening political participation.

The President suggested that paragraph 2 should be replaced by the following wording Each State Party guarantees the right of victims of enforced disappearances to an effective remedy during the term of limitation. However, several delegations preferred the initial wording.

Others thought it was preferable simply to state that the State had an obligation to provide information concerning, inter alia, the circumstances of the disappearance and the fate of the disappeared person they noted that the right to truth was already mentioned in the Preamble.

Concerning the three options offered by Costa Rica, some delegations felt that the second option had merit, while other delegations preferred the third alternative of concluding a separate protocol on the matter.

Concerning the three options offered by Costa Rica, some delegations felt that the second option had merit, while other delegations preferred the third alternative of concluding a separate protocol on the matter.

This is what you have honoured above me ! If You defer ( my term ) till the Day of Resurrection , I will bring his progeny into complete subjugation , barring a few .

He said , Behold this the one whom You have honoured above me if You give me respite till the Day of Resurrection , I will surely crush his descendants , except a few . ( Prophet Adam . )

He said , ' What thinkest Thou ? This whom Thou hast honoured above me if Thou deferrest me to the Day of Resurrection I shall assuredly master his seed , save a few . '

lblis said bethinkest Thou This one whom Thou hast honoured above me if Thou deferrest me till the Day of Judgment , shall surely seize his progeny save a few .

Iblis ( Satan ) said See ? This one whom You have honoured above me , if You give me respite ( keep me alive ) to the Day of Resurrection , I will surely seize and mislead his offspring ( by sending them astray ) all but a few !

He said , Do You see this one whom You have honored more than me ? If You reprieve me until the Day of Resurrection , I will bring his descendants under my sway , except for a few .

This is he whom You have exalted above me ! If you will grant me respite till the Day of Resurrection I shall uproot the whole of his progeny except only a few .

He said Seest Thou this ( creature ) whom Thou hast honoured above me , if Thou give me grace until the Day of Resurrection I verily will seize his seed , save but a few .

Said he , Do You see this one whom You have honoured above me ? If You respite me until the Day of Resurrection , I will surely lay my yoke on his progeny , all except a few .

What do You think ' he said ' This whom You have honored above me , if You defer me until the Day of Resurrection , I will root out all but a few of his seed ( by misleading them ) '

Iblees said , Do You see this one whom You have honored above me ? If You delay me until the Day of Resurrection , I will surely destroy his descendants , except for a few .

He continued , Remember , this one whom you have honored more than me I shall bring him and most of his offspring under my sway if you will give me respite until the Day of Judgment .

He said Tell me , is this he whom Thou hast honored above me ? If Thou shouldst respite me to the day of resurrection , I will most certainly cause his progeny to perish except a few .

and further said , Do you see this being whom You have exalted above me ? If You reprieve me until the Day of Resurrection , I will bring all but a few of his descendents under my sway .

He said Seest Thou ? this is the one whom Thou hast honoured above me ! If Thou wilt but respite me to the Day of Judgment , I will surely bring his descendants under my sway all but a few !

One view is that their surpluses were a corollary of the policies favoring export led growth that worked so well for so long. China s leaders are understandably reluctant to abandon a tried and true model.

The world, including the United States, disapproves of the Israeli settlements. But, despite past US administrations opportunity to make their influence felt, they preferred to permit Israel, an allied, friendly state, to do what it wanted.

Those delegations that preferred the retention of paragraph 3 noted that the paragraph was necessary to reflect the reality that natural disasters also occurred in situations of minimal risk, for example, in States where there existed a stable social order.