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
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
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
I would have them with their rightful influence in the Senate; an influence which should preponderate in both Houses.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
In the cathedral towns the trades' guilds preponderated in influence.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
His respect was of course very freely mingled with irony, and yet it would be rash to say that his irony preponderated.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
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
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
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 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
The subsequent marshalling of the cells is disguised by their association with a preponderating mass of inert material.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
Such, indeed, appears to be the conviction of the human societies which assign a preponderating rôle to Science.
From The Pros and Cons of Vivisection by Charles Richet
Moreover, even those who attribute to the "syndicate" of factors a preponderating power over historical progress do not attribute to intelligence a greater influence than we recognize as belonging to it.
From Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism by Gabriel Deville
Its effect may struggle as it will: it sinks under the preponderating mass as a butterfly will be beaten down under a dirty, drenching, city rain.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
