From the U.S. point of view, some form of continued confederation is greatly preferable to a divorce.

He told himself to be pragmatic-humiliation was greatly preferable to death.

They were preferable to starving to death, but not, as far as she was concerned, greatly preferable.

"Sir," Daniel said, deciding to proceed as though none of the previous words had been said--which would've been a greatly preferable situation.

Since it was fed with steaks served in gold-plated bowls, the creature presumably regarded a dog's life in Romania as greatly preferable to its existence in Britain.

Of course, new construction, especially of the owner-occupied sort, is greatly preferable to trash-filled vacant lots and crack-infested abandoned buildings.

A domestic flight would have been greatly preferable.

That was a little more than two centuries previously, when a communal understanding had swept the various governments of Rohagi that from now on diplomacy would be greatly preferable to war.

While their long-term outlook is greatly preferable to the alternative, it may have had a perverse systemic effect.

Mutual and equivalent international commitments covering sectors that are vulnerable to competition would be greatly preferable to the adoption of border tax adjustments to offset trade distortions.