Some bansuri players and makers prefer linseed oil or walnut oil to mustard oil, owing to its strong odour.

He said the can makers generally oppose mandatory deposits and prefer voluntary recycling.

Afraid of building cars no one will buy, the makers prefer requiring the use of alternative fuel vehicles in public fleets and in large private fleets.

According to Magic Eye, a maker of autostereograms, "most people prefer the diverging method".

The makers of the patches prefer that the new labels not rule out continuous use but leave that up to the patient's doctor, said a spokesman for Ciba-Geigy, one of the companies that sponsored the F.D.A.-requested study.

Yet given the Razor's swift decline from chic to passé, the Trikke's maker, Trikke Tech Inc., prefers to play down the similarities.

Several modern makers prefer to produce pipes pitched at what Northumbrian pipers refer to as F+, a pitch where the nominal G sounds approximately twenty cents sharp of F natural.

In 2009 The Guardian reported that crop circle activity had been waning around Wiltshire, one of the reasons being that makers preferred making promotional circles for companies that pay well for their efforts.

Most makers now prefer to make a baritone drone, rather than an alto, and many use only the bass and tenor.