préférer

Pas étonnant qu'elle ait préféré les baleines.
No wonder she preferred to save the whales.
Où étiez-vous seulement jalouse qu'il vous ait préféré une femme plus jeune ?
Or was it just that you were jealous because he abandoned you for a younger woman?
Il est regrettable que la Commission ait préféré foncer tête baissée, en s'en tenant à une proposition idéologique qui ne tient pas compte des opinions de la population.
It is regrettable that the Commission opted instead to bulldoze ahead with the ideological proposal that fails to pay attention to the views of the people.
- Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Président en exercice du Conseil, je regrette que le Premier ministre Blair ait préféré s’en aller et parler aux journalistes plutôt que d’écouter le débat en entier.
Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, I regret that Prime Minister Blair has seen fit to go and spin to journalists rather than listen to this whole debate.
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