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This is why Darwin resisted the use the term preferring the word “transmutation” which I think came originally from Lamarck whose scheme was also progressive but involved environmental mechanisms as well as God-given drives to complexity and spontaneous generation.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Why Should Words Have Meanings? (Chapter 1) - The Panda's Thumb 2006

This idea of evolution was toally alien to Darwin and he refused to use the term preferring “descent with modification” which implied no direction. bystander

Special Magazine Issues on Darwin, Evolution, ID Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Mr. Isherwood however, in preferring to use his coveted editorial pulpit for snarky, unfunny asides -- "I invited a Beatles devotee to join me, but she reacted as if I'd asked her to come along to two weeks of jury duty" -- casually damns Rain with faint, and mostly fudged, praise.

James Rotondi: "Rain" On Their Parade: Why the NY Times review of "Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles On Broadway" is All Wet James Rotondi 2010

Mr. Isherwood however, in preferring to use his coveted editorial pulpit for snarky, unfunny asides -- "I invited a Beatles devotee to join me, but she reacted as if I'd asked her to come along to two weeks of jury duty" -- casually damns Rain with faint, and mostly fudged, praise.

James Rotondi: "Rain" On Their Parade: Why the NY Times review of "Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles On Broadway" is All Wet James Rotondi 2010

Mr. Isherwood however, in preferring to use his coveted editorial pulpit for snarky, unfunny asides -- "I invited a Beatles devotee to join me, but she reacted as if I'd asked her to come along to two weeks of jury duty" -- casually damns Rain with faint, and mostly fudged, praise.

James Rotondi: "Rain" On Their Parade: Why the NY Times review of "Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles On Broadway" is All Wet James Rotondi 2010

Perhaps, indeed, this is why the Christians follow the Jews in preferring to avoid the name at all, preferring to simply call him Lord.

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO Hal Duncan 2007

The first and lowest were the Dicteriads, so called from Diete (Crete), who imitated Pasiphaë, wife of Minos, in preferring a bull to a husband; above them was the middle class, the Aleutridæ, who were the Almahs or professional musicians, and the aristocracy was represented by the Hetairai, whose wit and learning enabled them to adorn more than one page of Grecian history.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

What gives the sign its linguistic value is the system of differences, on the one hand between signifiers, on the other be - tween signifieds (or significata, some writers in English preferring “significatum” to “signified” as a noun).

STRUCTURALISM PETER CAWS 1968

Undue delay in preferring or prosecuting charges should be investigated with a view to prompt disposition of the case or, when appropriate, the release of the accused from arrest or confinement by competent authority.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214 1951

Although charges should be preferred promptly (25; Arts. 10, 30b, 33), the accused is not automatically released from restraint because of any delay in preferring the charges.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214 1951