1.   Courageous governments have preferred better patient care to a quiet life.

2.   A Russian diplomat here said that his government would prefer that Albright not raise the issue, and that Moscow was holding talks with Belarus to resolve the impasse.

3.   According to Bubitz of the Central Council of German Jews, the Israeli government would prefer that all the Jews from the former Soviet Union went to Israel.

4.   But he said the government preferred to negotiate.

5.   In a very tight market, the city government has preferred to enter into joint venture agreements with tenants for rents based on turnover.

6.   Salinas has offered to return to testify, but the consequences are so potentially explosive that the government would prefer that he stay abroad.

7.   That would mean pushing cuts in social programs or military spending through a notoriously undisciplined Congress, a task that the government would prefer to tackle after the elections.

8.   The day is coming to an end when government prefers some of its citizens over others because of skin color or gender.

9.   The government likely would prefer going to the polls after a rate cut.

10.   The government prefers not to listen, knowing that such a law would scare away investors.