What is "prefers"

Usage examples of "prefers".

I succeed in procuring English saffron, which Paracelsus prefers to the Oriental saffron.

If it was left to Skilly it would be the Palace, but my guess is that Murasaki prefers Plataia.

She has refused all suitors, finding none she likes, because she prefers to marry for love rather than prestige or convenience.

An ticipating the probable existence of a second fixed point, the chair prefers for the present to invite questions without direct bearing on the fixed point or on the ownership status of the black shepherd.

He is the laborer who has gone astray and who either from apathy, unintelligence, incompetence, or some immediately pressing need prefers his own individual interest to the joint interests of himself and his fellow-laborers.

In the majority of discussions of the labor question the non-union laborer is figured as the independent working man who is asserting his right to labor when and how he prefers against the tyranny of the labor union.

He could have freed himself from all sorrow and ascended into eternity and national immortality, but he prefers to go to Moscow!