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
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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He specifically stated that "management of the institution must be genuinely international, without preponderate power of veto."
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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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They include the biological nature of the organism and its physical environment, the latter involving conditions in which geographical elements, direct or indirect, preponderate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
In the cathedral towns the trades' guilds preponderated in influence.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
One or the other has preponderated, and thus given distinct characteristics to its age.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
In wealth and resources the North vastly preponderated.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
In such low neighbourhoods as Drury Lane it seemed to me that the men preponderated; indeed, at many places they were the only customers.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
"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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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
"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
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
The juries made their presentments in respect of large masses of peasantry, under the preponderating influence of the gentry and without much chance for the verification of particular instances.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff