In the early years of optimal control (circa 1950s to 1980s) the favored approach for solving optimal control problems was that of indirect methods.

Smearing the victim with sexual innuendo, a favored approach in rape cases, is always a high-risk tactic.

In studies so far, Dr. Shirley said, neither the direct or rendezvous mission has emerged as the favored approach for returning a rock sample.

Such methods defy the favored approaches of many public school systems, including New York's, which downplay or altogether omit drilling and memorization.

The outlines of the favored approach were agreed to at a Washington meeting of finance ministers in April.

But college has become the favored approach, the one that business most applauds.

Mr. Costello has dubbed his favored approach to purchasing weapons the "could cost" method.

Da Camera's favored approach to thematic programming is to draw together disparate works that have literary and intellectual connections, not necessarily musical ones.

This trading of pollution permits is the Administration's favored approach for letting the marketplace choose how to reduce emissions.

Foreign businesses have embraced an obscure United Nations-backed program as a favored approach to limiting global warming.