He would always prefer hi children before mine--that is natural.
How can he learn humility when there is no one to prefer before himself?
Red foxes prefer to hunt in the early morning hours before sunrise and late evening.
She preferred nearly every other species before them.
Why can't a man have both bread and wine and not prefer one before the other?
"I don't have the strength to resist you, but at the Order we prefer chastity before marriage."
And I prefer another now, far before him, a million at least.
But they prefer open court hearings before a judge, as is done in California.
Perhaps Soviet officialdom would prefer a prettier version of life before the war.
But the maiden said: 'I prefer my own property before some substitute.'