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.
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
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
And yet, did not the chances that Craig would not regain his faculties vastly preponderate?
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
It was now almost impossible to say which side preponderated.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
The authority of the ministry was great; its influence preponderated.
From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various
On the whole perhaps the good preponderated, for they undoubtedly aided in postponing a revolution for which the world was not yet ready.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
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
On the morning of August 7 the trivial, with us, preponderated.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
"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
You contend that there is “decidedly preponderating evidence” for reading instead, “Great Is the mystery of godliness, who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,” &c.:
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon
There’s a preponderating number of unattached young men in the newly-opened parts of the Dominion.”
From The Protector by Harold Bindloss
But only by exerting the whole available strength of the VIIIth Corps had it been possible to withstand the preponderating attack of the enemy.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
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
