Devaluation, with its adverse consequences, has historically rarely been a preferred strategy.

Table 4.1 shows that the preferred strategy varies as a function of age.

When all else failed the preferred strategy was to invoke the name of the dreaded director.

The first, which involves selling the right to buy shares of a stock at a set price, is the preferred strategy when call premiums are high.

When does it pay a young male to remain with his companions operating a preferred strategy of delayed takeover?

Using the stock market as a savings vehicle for long-term goals such as retirement or a child's education is the preferred financial strategy.

Waiting until autumn had not been the Senator's preferred strategy, nor was it ours.

But the performance of each group suffers when it is impeded from engaging in its preferred strategies.

For several minutes they played without speaking, gauging each other's skill, experience, preferred strategies.

People feel that their preferred strategy just "feels right."