What has happened recently to make canvas preferable to paper?
Gradual change is preferable to sudden, large- scale change.
It may be idealistic But it's preferable to cynicism.
For large, extended chords thrust is preferable to free fall.
For most soybean growers it is preferable to have rows wide enough to permit mechanical cultivation.
It is always preferable to design and code a big application in smaller loosely coupled parts.
Antimonial lead is preferable to chemical lead because of its greater corrosion resistance and strength.
In the world of capuchins, grapes are luxury goods (and much preferable to cucumbers).
Still, however distorting phoney fears may be, they are far preferable to genuine calamities.
But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.
As the edible oil, it is preferable to use olive oil, safflower oil, sesame oil or rapeseed oil.
Experience has shown that a more verbose topic space is preferable to a terse, less descriptive space.
By contrast, his new position on referendums is sensible and mature: even a climb-down is preferable to madness.
A lie that's preferable to the truth. 一个比真相更受欢迎的谎言。
According to the research results, it is preferable to set the direction of the industrial layout in Laiwu City ought to from NW to SW.
To delegate the test run to three remote machines, it is preferable to create three user groups, with each assigned to run on one remote machine.
“It is most often preferable to arrive to Africa by ship rather than by plane,” she said, then stopped talking and rededicated herself to a plate of pasta.
It is preferable to use the waitfor task to test whether the Selenium server has successfully started, rather than pausing for a fixed time.
We have them today. A little more inflation might be preferable to rising unemployment or a series of fiscal measures that pile on debt bequeathed to future generations.
He wanted to escape, but decided after all that Wu Chih-sheng's company was perhaps preferable to roaming up and down alone.
In ideal conditions, it is preferable to have the majority of our data as close to a central location (e.g. mean or median) as possible.
After a while it got boring and just like the French car dealer I started to wonder if maybe ordinary is preferable to extraordinary.
And his assertion that whole-grain dark bread was preferable to bread made from refined white flour was later borne out by the twentieth-century discovery of vitamins.
The test showed that it was preferable to cultivate robust seedling and improved the lodging-resistant capability in soaked S_(3307).
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
Application of evidence preservation right, lawyers-on-site in the special investigation and reading criminal file of attorney are preferable to be adopted.
A multiple-row insert is preferable to multiple single-row inserts; but an even better technique is to place the SQL insert statements in a script file and run the script to insert the data.
Do not put any weapons in your locker. This is guaranteed to get you a one-way ticket out of school. Suspension and detention are not preferable to prevention.
Touch screen buttons with tactile feedback are also preferable to soft-labels with adjacent hard buttons, because again it requires fewer cognitive cycles on the part of the driver operating the system to make the mapping.
Or are they exploiting a passing fad which will fade when the economy recovers and high-flyers realise that safe jobs are preferable to sitting by the phone waiting for the talent agency to call?
This may be preferable to the outlook of American elites, who have a better sense of the middle but also tolerate a degree of poverty at the bottom that would not be accepted in western Europe.
The Whole Wide World is a reminder that great art is sometimes derived from great pain, and that writers who traffic in fantastical tales often find them preferable to the real world.
A drawn-out wrangle in the courts might produce more acrimony after a hard-fought and at times bitter campaign, although a legal scrap would be preferable to street violence.
Everybody wants to believe it,that's what makes it so clever.A lie that's preferable to the truth.每个人都宁可信其有，这就是其高明之处。一个比真相更受人青睐的谎言。
"Suppose I was a soldier like you, and ordered to carry a certain redoubt, and you knew I must be killed in the assault, would you not say to me, as you said just now, 'Go, father; for you are dishonored by delay, and death is preferable to shame!'
