as a matter of choice
Example Sentences
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The Madness of England Football Part 2: for decades the national team played this way as a matter of choice.
From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2020
A sovereign people, however they’re defined, could as a matter of choice create a government that is a government of natural aristocrats or an elite.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2018
But more conferences await elsewhere, and as a matter of choice, I stand up and head for the exit.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2018
This statistic has held steady since the 1990s, with some economists and politicians interpreting it as a matter of choice.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2016
It is evident that, as a matter of choice, they would have avoided the battle of the Yalu, though when compelled to fight they fought stoutly.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
