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
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
He specifically stated that "management of the institution must be genuinely international, without preponderate power of veto."
From Time Magazine Archive
Among their seniors there was a great deal of gabble to very little purpose, with a preponderate share of bustle and agitation.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
He considered the matter of imparting knowledge a mere question of effort, in which the physical element preponderated.
From Hoosier Mosaics by Maurice Thompson
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
The only difference was, when the measure had assumed its final shape, whether the good it contained so far preponderated over its acknowledged evil, as to justify the reception and support of the whole together.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster
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
The General was too cool and self-controlled to be always the loser, and up to the time of our story, this one active vice had rather preponderated in favor of his own interests.
From Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
"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
Though they certainly function to a preponderating extent, it has been shown that gaseous particles can act similarly, particularly when air is ionized.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
If Condorcet wrote just before his death his immortal Sketch, Voltaire took a preponderating part in the creation of the intellectual atmosphere in which Condorcet lived and could develop his genius.
From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by G. W. (George William) Foote
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
He sees so much to say on all sides that he never clearly defines on which side lies the preponderating reasoning.
From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
