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."
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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.
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While it is true that some Reformed Congregations hold their services on Sunday, the preponderate number of them still cling to the traditional sabbath.
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White, for instance, should be much employed in July, to break the duller blues and purples which then preponderate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 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
So long as the north of France, where the Germanic element prevailed, preponderated in the policy of the country, the fabric of feudalism, or rather its inform remains, maintained their ground.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
The only difference was, when the measure had assumed its final shape, whether the good it contained so far preponderated over its acknowledged evil, as to justify the reception and support of the whole together.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster
As far as he could see by the glimmer of grey morning light that broke its difficult way in by the round windows, it was a well-dressed audience in which ladies preponderated.
From The Chief Justice A Novel by Karl Emil Franzos
The Norsemen preponderated in Man; and the constitution of the island is in many parts Scandinavian, though the language be Keltic.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
"The League cannot ignore the existence of Japan as a world power, and especially as a power with the preponderating position in Eastern Asia."
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This law of nature becomes most apparent when one compares the preponderating power of Rome against Carthage, with its weakness against the Cimbri and Mithradates.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
The more difficult expression is adopted by preponderating textual authorities, and “his house” is regarded as a correction to make the sense easier.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren
Hence the will-reason exhibits its existence in them as a preponderating majority of freemen, or in its “reflectional” universality, which has its actuality vouchsafed it as a participation in the sovereignty.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It has, however, on the highest authority since transpired that when in 1874 Mr Disraeli took office, he had already decided upon acquiring for England a preponderating interest in the international waterway.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott