So Captain America needed to be someone we could all believe Robert Downey, Jr. would respect and defer to, and someone the God of Thunder would prefer to follow rather than lead.
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But top managers on both sides seemed to prefer sidling up to potential hurdles rather than meeting them head on.
In general, say the organisers, people still prefer to be moderate rather than militant.
Officials are hopeful that a more educated population will prefer to report their finds rather than sell them.
Rather than have sensors lodged inside their bodies, many people may prefer to have them woven into their clothing, or placed next to rather than under their skin.
Also, Microsoft decided that people would prefer to rent rather than buy its software.
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They prefer to blow out the candles rather than celebrate them.
Such a service would appeal to the many phone users who prefer to text rather than exchange emails as well as people with less sophisticated cellphones.
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Young people are now much more likely to prefer to read on a computer screen rather than a printed book or magazine, according to a UK survey.
Because some people really do prefer to get their information via video, just like some people prefer getting their news online rather than in print.
Your best option is to negotiate a payment plan directly with your hospital or provider, who would prefer to get paid over time rather than not at all.
We would always prefer to see businesses broken out rather than hidden in some conglomerate.
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As the economy enters tough times, he said, many consumers might prefer to switch to a low-frills option rather than cancel.
People prefer to address computers by names, such as www.economist.com, rather than numbers (in this case 207.87.8.50, when translated into decimal digits).
Indonesian fishermen, in jail in Australia as a result of people smuggling, prefer to be in jail in Australia rather than free in Indonesia.
We would all prefer to do business with the one smiling rather than the one pouting.
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Few, if any, communities have found shelter for all of their homeless families or funded scholarships for all of their needy schoolchildren, and many donors would prefer to directly help those individuals locally rather than pursue a broader agenda.
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The researchers said 71% of the respondents would prefer to live 15 years in a wheelchair than die after 10 or five years in a wheelchair - but the remaining 29% said they would prefer to die earlier rather than spend 15 years in a wheelchair.
Most of us would prefer to gorge on food, appliances and clothes rather than delay our consumption.
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Both founders and entrepreneurial employees prefer to build something from the ground up rather than join an existing company.
That's not to say he would prefer to chase the lead rather than shoulder the pressure of being in front.
Despite the grim headlines, some leading women and blacks on Wall Street prefer to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty.
Hospitals often prefer to chop a bill down in percentage terms rather than fight over individual charges.
In addition, customers increasingly prefer to buy integrated systems from one vendor, rather than doing the plumbing themselves.
The middle classes would prefer to forget about this situation, rather than pay more taxes to rectify it.
Almost 71 percent of citizens said they would prefer to pay a service fee rather than fund e-government initiatives through taxes.
"There is competition amongst different experiments - so when you compete you prefer to win rather than coming second or third, " he explains.
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However, the offer was withdrawn after Crouch indicated that he would prefer to remain in the south of England rather than move to the north east.
We humans prefer to deal with short-term pain rather than honestly address long-term prevention.
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