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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

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

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

It must have a great influence on Amy's mind, either for good or evil; and there was much reason to fear that the evil would preponderate.

From Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Sewell

Since the time of Charlemagne Germanic influence had preponderated in the West, as is shown in the expansion of the Church no less than in matters of ecclesiastical law.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

On the whole perhaps the good preponderated, for they undoubtedly aided in postponing a revolution for which the world was not yet ready.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

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

They came from Tonga in 1835 and naturally settled first in the eastern islands, where the Tongan element, already familiar to them, preponderated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

The authority of the ministry was great; its influence preponderated.

From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various

"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

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

"Certainly," he says, "the part taken by the missionaries in expeditions of this character, was a preponderating one."

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

If Condorcet wrote just before his death his immortal Sketch, Voltaire took a preponderating part in the creation of the intellectual atmosphere in which Condorcet lived and could develop his genius.

From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by G. W. (George William) Foote

To produce an act of choice, therefore, we have only to awaken a preponderating desire.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan