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
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
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
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 petitioners proposed a measure that evidently tended to throw weight into a scale which preponderated too much already.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
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 authority of the ministry was great; its influence preponderated.
From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various
Among the commodities for sale jack-fruits preponderated, it being the month of Asadh.
From Mashi and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
"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 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
I think it must necessarily be so in all countries which are most rapidly increasing in riches, for from whence do riches come but from production preponderating over consumption?
From Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 by David Ricardo
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
One of the results of this movement, consequent upon the preponderating attention given to colour and technique, has been an almost entire neglect of subject.
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler
