But having seen the cold comfort Frank had just offered his mistress, jumping was clearly the preferable option.

Outside peak hours, the tunnels would still have been the preferable option to taking a toll road for most people.

This also opens the second, and preferable, option, which is leading him on a wild goose chase.

Promoting walking as a healthy and more preferable option to the motor car for short journeys.

The fact that some see it as totally unacceptable, and view death as a preferable option, shows just how important it can be.

Paying ransoms is always the easiest and most preferable option.

I thought, very often, about suicide as a preferable option to all that miserable waiting.

"I think most people think a military option is not the preferable option," he said.

Some days, it did seem as if death was a preferable option to numbing, soulless labor that would only benefit the enemy.