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
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
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
Unhesitatingly they sacrifice their property to freedom, and more unbearable than anxiety for their material interests is life in surroundings in which brutality, vulgar sentiments, harsh egotism, malice, hypocrisy and treachery preponderate.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau
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
His respect was of course very freely mingled with irony, and yet it would be rash to say that his irony preponderated.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
On the morning of August 7 the trivial, with us, preponderated.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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 market day close at hand still preponderated over any day even a year off.
From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
"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
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
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
The condition was enjoined upon them that whenever “decidedly preponderating evidence” constrained their adoption of some change in “the Text from which the Authorized Version was made,” they should indicate such alteration in the margin.
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon
Whether men care more for Antiquity or for Variety of testimony; whether Respectability of witnesses or vastly preponderating Numbers, more impresses the imagination,—they must needs admit that the door is here closed against further debate.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
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