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
The more virile men being absent on military duty, moreover, the less virile members of the sex it is who preponderate in the paternal rôle.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
In the cathedral towns the trades' guilds preponderated in influence.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
If his good works preponderated, he was dismissed to the fields of Aahlu—the Elysian Fields; if his evil, he was condemned to transmigration.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
With the exception of boys—who certainly preponderated in Rutherford—there were far too few human beings to satisfy Audrey.
From Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey
"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
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
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
The Jesuits obtained at an early day a preponderating influence in Canada and in Acadia.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
Bird’s-eye view of the Philippine Archipelago, showing the preponderating importance of Luzon.
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount
