1.   Consequently, many countries prefer alternative policies.

2.   Most countries would prefer to do without the smut and the anti-government invective, but none wants to risk being left out.

3.   In any case each country at times preferred or was tempted to act independently of the other.

4.   Giusti added that his country preferred to establish consultations about supply and demand among all major producers and consumers, not just OPEC members.

5.   If a unipolar world were unavoidable, many countries might prefer the United States as the hegemon.

6.   In Israel, the initial reaction was also evasive because the Holocaust provoked a sense of humiliation on which the country preferred to turn its back.

7.   Most European countries prefer to concentrate on perfecting and tightening such controls, and not militarizing the fight against proliferation, a European official said.

8.   Other ASEAN countries have so far preferred to be seen as Internet-friendly.

9.   Some countries prefer to let the past lie.