The directors also prefer the option of a rare Middle Sunday to a commitment to a roof over a major court.

At that, the hotel's general director, Sergei Skobkin, prefers credit cards to dollars.

Without being so obvious as to remind one that these are indeed the greatest stories ever told, the director prefers to dwell on their implications.

He replaced a longtime director who is still under investigation concerning the distribution of Transneft preferred shares to the company's top management.

It is often the case that a director approves of the final cut, and even prefers it to the so-called earlier "director's cut."

But the TV camera could, if desired, and some directors preferred it to do so.

That afternoon, I buried three bottles or urns, as funeral directors prefer to call them.

These directors "prefer to be independent, outside of the formal theater system that has existed until now," he said.

The director prefers to call such moments "almost funny."

Some directors, with the luxury of a good tenor section, prefer the natural voice, and with those groups, I sing bass.