preponderate

“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

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

He specifically stated that "management of the institution must be genuinely international, without preponderate power of veto."

From Time Magazine Archive

Gold is left in the anode slime when copper or silver are refined by the usual processes, but if the gold preponderate in the anode these processes are inapplicable.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

If the number of sheep who were black, or even grey, preponderated and if laxity were general in the community, the chapter would not concern itself to raise its own standard.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power

With the exception of boys—who certainly preponderated in Rutherford—there were far too few human beings to satisfy Audrey.

From Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

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 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 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

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

What we term national character, is the aggregate of the qualities preponderating in a community.

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

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

"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