Preponderate

One observer after another expressed an opinion, but on the day the convention met, even Gore, who was as much an expert on the subject as anyone, confessed that “I really cannot yet form any judgment of the weight of members, or which side the pros or cons will preponderate.” ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)

Connections to political authorities and centers are important variables in the activities and identities of the trading tribes and their subgroupings, and compared to kuchis and Lohanis, pawindahs appear less subject to state intervention in commercial, military and administrative arenas and more associated with the Pashto language and territories where Pashto-speakers preponderate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And on the roads we take, small Obama signs preponderate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Friedrich Engels brings us closer to some balance in his Letter to J Bloch when he asserts: "The economic situation is the basis, but various elements of the superstructure - ... political, juristic, philosophical theories, religious views ... - also exercise their influence upon the course of the historical struggles and in many cases preponderate in determining their form." ❋ Unknown (2008)

“O, I see your malice!” cried Cecilia; “you were determined to add weight to the value of your company, by making me fully sensible where the balance would preponderate.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

I attended service twice at the Episcopal church, where the service was beautifully read and sung; but in a city in which men preponderate the congregation was mainly composed of women, who fluttered their fans in a truly distracting way. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Blouses, long and short, and velveteen jackets preponderate. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But, in matters of probability, it is not in every case we can be sure that we have all the particulars before us, that any way concern the question; and that there is no evidence behind, and yet unseen, which may cast the probability on the other side, and outweigh all that at present seems to preponderate with us. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The people, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

The question of whether such attacks preponderate in the criticism of Thomas is beside the point. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Almost as annoying as all the nutters who preponderate conspiracy theories about the BBC on here, eh Iain? ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is sufficient, if the whole plan or scheme be necessary to the support of civil society, and if the balance of good, in the main, do thereby preponderate much above that of evil. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It is true that a great and rich soul, like his, falling among the simple, does so preponderate, that, as his did, it names the world. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then weighing both parts in opposite scales, we shall see which is likely to preponderate; or rather which does preponderate. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It is evident, however, that the gravities of the body, and of the bulk of water displaced, are very nicely balanced, and that a trifle will cause either to preponderate. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Boards giving the number of inhabitants, male and female, and the number of horses and bullocks, are put up in each village, and I noticed in Ichikawa, as everywhere hitherto, that men preponderate. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)