However, advances in the development of bolt-action rifles made them increasingly preferred over lever actions.

Employers increasingly prefer or even require that the medical assistants they hire be certified.

Young professional singles and couples, he said, increasingly prefer an urban environment.

But many people in the field, especially museum professionals, increasingly prefer the term self-taught.

There have been the predictable complaints that people increasingly prefer to watch than to play, that we are producing a generation of armchair athletes.

Adjusting bar prices failed to help matters significantly, as by the mid-80s crowds were increasingly preferring Ecstasy to alcohol.

American consumers increasingly prefer energy drinks and bottled water to soda.

Why Disney increasingly prefers motifs from postwar or turn-of-the-century years rather than modern times is a puzzle.

By far, Americans increasingly prefer white wine.

Egyptian migrants increasingly prefer their children to maintain religious endogamy, especially in the case of their daughters.