Not surprisingly, foreign investors no longer favor Putin s Russia.

I don't mean they can't or they're not allowed to, they just often choose not to.

Bondholders obviously don t like it they would rather get a gift from the government.

So they prefer the term participatory government.

But there are also those who favor import of movies

But sane people would rather avoid inflation.

They may prefer a clear choice.

They prefer to live in freedom and in parliamentary democracies.

Leaders would prefer to speak in the language of readily calculable interests. Talk of care and moral scruples is uncomfortable and unstable terrain.

The critics would say that it is because of the tax preference accorded to debt, or because banks are too big to fail.

That diagnosis better suits those who prefer to ignore them.

Of course, Russia s rulers have usually preferred myth to reality.

Many Islamists may in fact prefer an illiberal to a liberal democracy.

Of course, in the West, an investment plan invites criticism from those who prefer that we do nothing but talk about growth strategies.

First, it has to be assumed that individuals prefer to avoid risk.

President Lula and others on the left mostly prefer to hold their tongues.

Instead, they prefer to establish relatively innocuous working groups and task forces.

Evidence showed that persons knowingly enter into common law relationships by choice and as a result do not wish to be submitted to the marital regime and the obligations that flow from it.

And I say, Why do you think more men are adulterous than women?

Many people enjoy the intestines cooked in a nice gravy served over maize meal porridge.

Many diplomats would prefer to forget the Russo Georgian war or sweep it under the rug.

Most people would rather work for an established company, or for the government.

Religion Most of the Czech population prefer not responding on religious matters in Census (45.2 ).

Iranians do not like to be isolated even the clerical elite has a strong interest in exchanges with the rest of the world, and they like to send their children to Western schools.

We hope that the fact that the outcome document was not definitive on this matter does not provide a loophole for those who choose to have selective amnesia about our long standing commitments.

But many Arabs nowadays prefer to give the US a break.

Time is no longer on the side of those who favor two states.

Historically, both state and federal attorney generals have preferred to prosecute occasional traders, who stick out like a sore thumb.

The Europeans would prefer to withdraw sooner rather than later, and the US will probably follow suit.

Contractors in municipal services, for example, prefer to use children in order to cut costs.

About 80 percent of prospective adoptive parents from the US will choose a girl over a boy.

Many patients however prefer to have food brought in from home or outside the hospital.

Or, as some people, especially academics prefer, beauty is in the culturally conditioned eye of the beholder.

They were saying that they preferred the automated version of their cousin to their cousin.

Easing tensions will not win Bush points with those who prefer a muscular strategy.

And the specialists, the financiers themselves, prefer a status quo that rewards them lavishly.

If representatives prefer to speak from their seats, they may do so I leave it up to them to choose.

This suggests that, although Egyptians may not necessarily prefer strongman rule, they are entirely comfortable with it and may even believe that it is necessary.

It turns out, from earliest childhood, boys, and then men, prefer the company of guys physical company.

The problem is they now prefer the asynchronistic Internet world to the spontaneous interaction in social relationships.

This may be a result of selectivity on the part of the females, who may prefer highly parental males.

Many operators prefer not to use employment contracts and simply see themselves as providing a facility.

Those who favor European unification should take criticisms of its political flaws very seriously.

A recent poll shows that only one third of Germans now favor the scheme, while a majority oppose it.

All things being equal, Afghans would prefer security under any regime other than the Taliban.