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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

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

In Madeira proper the darker varieties would seem to be typical; whereas in Porto Santo the brightly coloured ones preponderate, and in fact are all but universal.

From On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera by Thomas Vernon Wollaston

The occipital and parietal lobes preponderated in mass as compared with the temporal and frontal.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot

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 Norsemen preponderated in Man; and the constitution of the island is in many parts Scandinavian, though the language be Keltic.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

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

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 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

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

Moreover, even those who attribute to the "syndicate" of factors a preponderating power over historical progress do not attribute to intelligence a greater influence than we recognize as belonging to it.

From Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism by Gabriel Deville

There’s a preponderating number of unattached young men in the newly-opened parts of the Dominion.”

From The Protector by Harold Bindloss

"Certainly," he says, "the part taken by the missionaries in expeditions of this character, was a preponderating one."

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur