It has been ascertained since that Meade's conclusions were correct in so far as they related to the enemy's infantry; but the five cavalry brigades far outnumbered my three, and it is to be regretted that so much was risked in holding a point that commanded the roads to Cold Harbor and Meadow bridge, when there was at hand a preponderating number of Union troops which might have been put into action. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Having denied historic materialism, which sees in men mere puppets on the surface of history, appearing and disappearing on the crest of the waves while in the depths the real directing forces move and work, Fascism also denies the immutable and irreparable character of the class struggle which is the natural outcome of this economic conception of history; above all it denies that the class struggle is the preponderating agent in social transformations. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We do therefore lie, in respect of each other, under a reciprocation of benefits, whereof those received by me being the most solid (in respect that a new house and a new coat are better than a new tale and an old song), it is meet that my gratitude should be expressed with the louder voice and more preponderating vehemence. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Roman institutions and customs had scarcely had time to take root before the German invasion, and they must have given way very easily under the pressure of the conquerors, whose numbers, rapidly increasing, soon insured to them a preponderating influence. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But it had a preponderating tendency, when considered, to become fainter. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The only conclusion, then, had to be that the universe's expansion was accelerating, NOT slowing down, as would be the case if GRAVITY were the preponderating force attempting to act upon that (once believed) EXPLOSIVENESS of the BIG BANG. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Why then, my dear, if you will have it, I think, that, with all his preponderating faults, I like him better than I ever thought I should like him; and, those faults considered, better perhaps than ❋ Unknown (2006)
To-day, I suppose, if it were possible to indicate, in units of energy, the grand total of work upon which the social fabric of the United States or England rests, it would be found that a vastly preponderating moiety is derived from non-human sources, from coal and liquid fuel, and explosives and wind and water. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
It was a long, thin nose, which, as it progressed forward into the air, certainly had a preponderating bias towards the left side. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As, for instance, it is easy to see that far in the interior of the Malay Peninsula, in regions rarely visited by Europeans, themselves without advisers, and away from the influence of public opinion, dealing with weak rulers to whom they represent preponderating brute force in the last resort, the position of “Resident” is very much what the individual man chooses to make it. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
The Rainbow is one of the many tokens of preponderating Chinese influence in the Straits of Malacca. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
No one will deny that in this respect the pleasures of sensibility occupy a higher place than either of the other two fundamental kinds; which exist in an equal, nay, in a greater degree in brutes; it is this preponderating amount of sensibility which distinguishes man from other animals. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Now, our mental powers are forms of sensibility, and therefore a preponderating amount of it makes us capable of that kind of pleasure which has to do with mind, so-called intellectual pleasure; and the more sensibility predominates, the greater the pleasure will be. 19 19 ❋ Unknown (2004)
All the time that he had been speaking, the dubious-looking men with carbines and dirty slouch hats had been gathering silently in such preponderating numbers that even Muscari was compelled to recognize his sally with the sword as hopeless. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sub-Ghauts and lower ranges (say 2000 feet high), of sandstone capped with limestone, the former preponderating. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It is always in the region proper to the element preponderating in the scheme of their constitution that things exist. ❋ Unknown (2002)
“This is a somewhat preponderating combination, but it has a serene and magnificent effect,” he wrote in his Theory of Colours. ❋ Simon (1994)
