The public, it turned out, was interested in Ms Halliwell, but preferred looking at her to hearing her sing.
Former Benetton driver Wurz was also capable of taking money to Jaguar, but preferred to stick with McLaren, where he will share testing duties with Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa.
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The Berkeley graduate considered Haas, as well as Babson, but preferred Wharton both for its reputation and for the fact that top faculty were eager to teach at the West Coast campus.
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Six in 10 affluent Millennials read user-generated product reviews when shopping for luxury goods, 55% have learned about a product in a store, but preferred to purchased it online, and 18% recommend luxury brand purchases through social network sites, reports the Luxury Institute.
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Saying that server can hold 100 players, but players preferred a limit of 50.
We'd liked to have discussed all this with him, but he preferred not to.
Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages now, but we preferred it when he belonged to us.
Pixadores live in poor suburbs but their preferred target is seedy, downtown Sao Paulo, where visibility is guaranteed.
Astra's big shareholders are aware of Mr Mogren's abrasive nature, but have preferred to judge him by results.
The first choice for the lead was Jackie Chan himself, but he preferred to keep making films like Rush Hour.
The change is not only in sector, but in preferred instrument too.
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His own Corinthians, once struggling, were rolling in money, but he preferred his political slogans to the dozens of sponsors now blazoned on their shirts.
He was a master of rhetoric, as he was a master of mimicry, but his preferred figure of speech was one of the lowest, the pun.
After the princes of the church had congratulated the new pope one by one, other Vatican officials wanted to do the same, but Francis preferred to go outside and greet the throngs of faithful.
But my preferred approach would be that all the payers - Medicare, Medicaid, private insurers - would jointly negotiate with all the hospitals in the region a common fee schedule and then everyone would pay that.
We can pick and choose not only our preferred type of media, but also our preferred perspective.
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Harryhausen admired the three-dimensional quality of modern digital effects, but he still preferred the old-fashioned way of creating fantasy.
He was born in Bavaria and studied medicine, but found he preferred birdwatching.
Another 15% were said to be in full-time, long-term jobs in which a law degree is preferred but not required.
The main office wanted the New Jersey branch to get in line with corporate practices, but its head preferred to do things his own way.
He also acknowledged some of his party members were "eccentrics" but said he preferred that to a "bland lot of ghastly people whose names I don't even know".
But older Europeans preferred having a regular salary, thank you.
He says lots of bankers asked him if he wanted to buy back the business, but that he preferred to look through the windshield, and not the rear-view mirror.
After a flurry of phone calls from Mr Dewar, Mr McAllion back-tracked only a little, saying that he was opposed to independence, but that he preferred to fight it as being against the interests of the Scots rather than as wrong in principle.
But due to preferred lies being in operation, where a player can clean and place their ball as long as it is on the fairway, due to several parts of the course being wet from over watering, Ko's 63 will not go into the record books.
There are of course no guarantees on gains or preventing losses of your portfolio, but maintaining your preferred allocation can help spread the risks of your investments more in line with your risk tolerance and lower the levels of swings you might see in your account over time.
Apple added that the proposal Greenlight opposes would not bar the issuance of all preferred shares, but would simply prevent the board from issuing preferred shares without holder approval.
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But the establishment Republicans' worry is that Mr McCain will provide enough of a shock to traumatise their preferred candidate but not enough to revitalise their ailing party.
The corporation always bargained hard on price, but it was the preferred customer to many small businesses.
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