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

In the case of inland letters, the first and third factors preponderate to such a degree that their cost alone need be taken into consideration in fixing the rate.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by A. D. Smith

In the cathedral towns the trades' guilds preponderated in influence.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Of course this new tongue modified itself with the exigencies of those who spoke it; and as the French ingredient declined, the Milesian preponderated, till at length it became far more Irish than French.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

Among the commodities for sale jack-fruits preponderated, it being the month of Asadh.

From Mashi and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

There was altogether a strange mixture of worldly wisdom and of female folly in her character, for first one and then the other preponderated, as circumstances occurred.

From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope

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

"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

It has, however, on the highest authority since transpired that when in 1874 Mr Disraeli took office, he had already decided upon acquiring for England a preponderating interest in the international waterway.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

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

The more difficult expression is adopted by preponderating textual authorities, and “his house” is regarded as a correction to make the sense easier.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

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