North America has largely ignored the significance of common,'' preferring to focus on market.''

Unnecessarily broad regulations should be avoided in favor of rules that are specifically tailored to the various participants in the market.

Political leaders rarely espouse clear priorities, preferring to seem capable of giving everything to everybody.

But, in choosing restraint over intervention, he has disappointed ordinary Africans and international activists alike.

Several Indian businesses, especially larger firms, resisted, clinging to benefits protectionist measures introduced under Nehru.

Tom, stubborn as he was, refused to change to the sensible metric system, preferring to measure volume in hogsheads instead.

Only 43 of Europeans bothered to vote and many of them deserted establishment parties, often for anti EU extremists.

But demographers rarely use CDR s, thinking instead in terms of age and sex specific mortality rates, usually summarized as life expectancy.

The US wants to resolve the global crisis by providing substantially more financial help, which Europe is refusing to commit, preferring to focus on financial regulatory reform.

They are also often more focused on the plight of actual people than on the promotion of grand principles, preferring concrete progress to abstract victory.

Abbas is thus right to opt for a new peace paradigm, but his plan for a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence might be the wrong choice.

Conrad did not join Richard on campaign to the south, preferring to remain with his wife Isabella in Tyre believing his life to be in danger.

Because of lousy salaries in the state administration, many young and gifted people avoid government service, preferring to look for better paid jobs in the private sector, or to emigrate.

That teenagers and children do not get outside to play any more, preferring to spend their free time looking at screens, has been the lament of many for the the past decade.

We were at a coffee shop, but she doesn t drink coffee, as she prefers hot chocolate, which she likes to sip as she listens to Radiohead and works on a graphic design project for school.

When France s Dominique Strauss Kahn took over the helm in the fall of 2007, even poor African countries were shunning the IMF like a leper, preferring to make deals with non traditional lenders such as China.

I argued for this during East Asia's crisis the IMF argued against me, preferring its big bail out strategy.

Naturally, China is eager to exclude interference by extra regional great powers, particularly the United States, preferring bilateral negotiations with weaker regional claimants that it can more easily dominate.

He spent as little time as he could there, preferring his Ramallah office on the West Bank and spending time with visiting politicians and meeting world leaders there or abroad.

Indeed, many Taiwanese think that, if being Chinese means accepting all that goes under the name of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, they will gladly deny their Chineseness than assume some of that shame.

Yet, the media in Armenia and Azerbaijan never reports on such stories, preferring to emphasize differences rather than similarities, and this is where blogs and social networking sites have stepped in.

Portugal then the administering colonial power in Timor Leste refused to join the negotiations, preferring to wait for the international process which, in 1982, resulted in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS.

It is to be hoped that Taylor's departure heralds the beginning of a new African era, in which Africa's rulers stop protecting the continent's dictators because they would rather incur the wrath of faceless citizens than expel a dictator from among their ranks.