Cash is better.

The hard to do is preferable to the unacceptable and the unthinkable.

Poverty with honesty is preferable to wealth obtained by unfair means.

Poverty with honesty is preferable to wealth obtained by unfair means.

To that end, mental damage is preferable to physical injury.

But is early admission to EMU preferable to postponing membership?

For most people, stability, even if imposed by authoritarian means, trumps disorder.

In more corrosive environments (such as salt water), cadmium plating is preferred.

A perception of unfair treatment can be deadly to economic growth, because it means that people will lose trust in businesses, and hence be less willing to offer to them their precious capital and labor. Is that outcome morally superior to a bailout?

Is that outcome morally superior to a bailout?

The government must avoid relying too much on proposals for tax increases, which ultimately feed back on growth and sustainability. It would be far preferable to balance tax increases with some reversal of runaway government spending.

In that case, surely an orderly divorce now is preferable to a messy split down the line.

And a trial, however unsatisfactory, is in most cases still to be preferred to an assassination.

It would be far preferable to balance tax increases with some reversal of runaway government spending.

A multi polar world, many thought, would be vastly preferable to more Pax Americana.

Despite Russia s history after 1917, one dominant political party is preferable to none at all.

But attention to sensational cases of amputation and death by stoning, while justified, obscures the reality that the bulk of Sharia cases involve family matters and ordinary commercial law. Sharia, with its emphasis on swift justice, is often preferable to civil law in a country such as Nigeria, where courts are poorly administered and cases move slowly, when they move at all.

Even if the system were to become something like Japan s democracy in the 1920 s, with two more or less conservative parties competing for power, this would still be preferable to a one party state.

Sharia, with its emphasis on swift justice, is often preferable to civil law in a country such as Nigeria, where courts are poorly administered and cases move slowly, when they move at all.

I believe that early adoption of the euro is not only possible, but preferable to delay.

Was it preferable to start with economics try and get rich, quick, but don t rock the boat politically in the manner of the Chinese?

Throughout 1998 it would have been preferable to lower interest rates and let the Real move to a realistic level.

But evolutionary progress is always preferable to revolutionary upheaval, and, despite all the difficulties of genuine incremental reform, the prospects are not absolutely hopeless.

Sometimes, such as when violence was recently used to quell South Chinese peasants protesting official land grabs, the CCP still shows its willingness to use boot on the face suppression. Still, there have been more moments lately that favor Huxley s vision of political order over that of Orwell.

Designing an environment to suit animals psychological and physiological needs would be far preferable to the minimalism, otherwise known as standardization, that is currently employed.

Still, there have been more moments lately that favor Huxley s vision of political order over that of Orwell.

But evolutionary progress is always preferable to revolutionary upheaval, and, despite all the difficulties of genuine incremental reform, the prospects are not absolutely hopeless.

Given scarce resources, we must ask ourselves do we want to do a lot of good now, or a little good much later?

For the French, Sarkozy s determination to act, despite the odds, seems far superior to the passive cynicism of those who preach abstention or satisfy themselves with empty words.

The classical line starts with 9.c3 when Black may choose from 9...Na5, 9...Be7 (the main line), and the aggressive 9...Bc5.

Now, one might argue that the dignified pomp of Queen Elizabeth II is preferable to the tawdry grandiosity of Silvio Berlusconi, Madonna, or Cristiano Ronaldo.

The intellectual father of the euro, Columbia University s Robert Mundell, once famously opined that the optimal number of currencies in the world is an odd number, preferably less than three.

A clean sweep, however, will ultimately be good for stocks and certainly much better than cover up and lingering doubts about what the books really look like.

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Still, it is preferable that this culture of the supermarket prevails, rather than one in which everyone's gods, habits, and beliefs are in perpetual conflict.

But, given the US housing market s fragility, raising interest rates could cause prices to plummet, sinking the economy again. Despite their complaints, it is not clear that emerging economies would prefer another deep US downturn to the current flood of inbound capital that that they must manage.

True, Asian democracies, however unstable, are preferable to autocracies, whether military, as in Pakistan and Burma, or communist, as in China and Vietnam. But the danger in a weakened democracy is not merely blocked legislation and ineffective government.

True, Asian democracies, however unstable, are preferable to autocracies, whether military, as in Pakistan and Burma, or communist, as in China and Vietnam.

In Ukraine, the US and the EU seem to have decided on a sensible course of action or, rather, on a realistic two track response that is unlikely to produce spectacular results, but is certainly preferable to passivity.

And suppose... suppose a refusal is in store for me?...

If only.

But, what if ...

If only.

If you want.

If you like.