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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

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

He considered the matter of imparting knowledge a mere question of effort, in which the physical element preponderated.

From Hoosier Mosaics by Maurice Thompson

The Royal Audience, in reply, made its representations and protests, but finding that the power of the Governor preponderated, they yielded up the point in the mean time, and appealed to his Majesty.

From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol II (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Martinez de Zuniga

But the Doric religion seems here to have preponderated, and to have supplanted the elementary symbols so evident in the Hyacinthia.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

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

The reader must ask his memory whether their weight in the balance has preponderated for orthodoxy or for heterodoxy.

From Satires And Profanities by G. W. (George William) Foote

"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

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

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

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

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