preponderate
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“If his own opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at others. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019
He specifically stated that "management of the institution must be genuinely international, without preponderate power of veto."
From Time Magazine Archive
While it is true that some Reformed Congregations hold their services on Sunday, the preponderate number of them still cling to the traditional sabbath.
From Time Magazine Archive
These seek their complement in the other sex cell, but if the male micro-cellules preponderate in number over the female the result will be a male embryo, and vice versa.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the consequences which flow from dining copiously, what is beneficial is evidently stated to preponderate over what is hurtful, the qualifying "sometimes" being only attached to the latter.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
He was of dual nature,—and where the philosopher, the metaphysician and the divine preponderated in him, they completely over-weighted the exquisite, ethereal imagination, which was so infinitely more precious, had he known it.
From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
The General was too cool and self-controlled to be always the loser, and up to the time of our story, this one active vice had rather preponderated in favor of his own interests.
From Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
It was now almost impossible to say which side preponderated.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
In the cathedral towns the trades' guilds preponderated in influence.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
If his good works preponderated, he was dismissed to the fields of Aahlu—the Elysian Fields; if his evil, he was condemned to transmigration.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
"The League cannot ignore the existence of Japan as a world power, and especially as a power with the preponderating position in Eastern Asia."
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether men care more for Antiquity or for Variety of testimony; whether Respectability of witnesses or vastly preponderating Numbers, more impresses the imagination,—they must needs admit that the door is here closed against further debate.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
In sum, while most of the evidence points to a preponderating importance of the nuclear matter, it cannot be said to be an established proposition that the nuclear matter is the germ-plasm.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Suspense between hope and dread, dread preponderating, 132 is the state of feeling represented in the present chorus.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
There’s a preponderating number of unattached young men in the newly-opened parts of the Dominion.”
From The Protector by Harold Bindloss
