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Meanings of preponderant in English
Having superior power and influence.
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Examples for "paramount"
Examples for "paramount"
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Prevention is therefore paramount and a logical focus for future research attention.
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We shall see the law paramount, before we talk of its reform.
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Greg Clark, the business secretary, said: The safety of consumers is paramount.
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Of course, the safety of all concerned must be of paramount consideration.
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Early identification and treatment of sleep disorders is therefore of paramount importance.
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LANGUAGE: Spanish and French are the official languages, though Spanish is predominant.
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According to the experts the predominant contributing factors are technology and quality.
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In the early days of the internet, search was the predominant use.
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The idea of a predominant Power in Europe was part of absolutism.
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Consequently, the predominant strain in the case study was not host restricted.
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But the principle of independence would be the overriding issue, scholars said.
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Security has been an overriding concern for the government and Games' organisers.
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Security has been an overriding concern for the government and Games' organizers.
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That is largely true, with fears about terrorism overriding concerns about privacy.
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The insanity defense is based on one overriding concept in jurisprudence: responsibility.
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However, he restricts his concern to primary schools, where female teachers predominate.
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Both across the world and in the Middle East, socioeconomic concerns predominate.
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In any such view, the wild, the aboriginal, the geographical greatly predominate.
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One or more of the food-stuffs sometimes predominate in a single food.
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With the Irish, feeling and passion predominate; reason must bow before them.
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Hence a fresh weight has only been thrown into the preponderating scale.
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It has several thousand inhabitants, the foreign element preponderating, we should judge.
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She was coloured, but of mixed race, the European element evidently preponderating.
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Why therefore should I-oranyone-offerto discriminate?-since evil is always the preponderating factor.
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For others, again, it is the capillary phenomena which here act a preponderating part.
Usage of preponderant in English
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When he ascended the throne Germany's position on the continent was preponderant.
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Among the most important factors of history one was preponderant-thefactor of beliefs.
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The southern stock, including settlers from Kentucky and Tennessee, was the preponderant class.
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Turkey must become a really Mohammedan country, and Moslem influence must be preponderant.
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S: Then as for him whose good deeds are preponderant, these are the successful.
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No one sect is sufficiently preponderant to admit of that.
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TS'U: semi-barbarous principality alone preponderant on the Yang- tsz River.
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Given its preponderant lead in the polls it certainly looks like Labour's election to lose.
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First, the preponderant type of cells was formed by flattened, spindle cells with sparse cytoplasm.
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Nevertheless, when compared to Cuba, Jamaica cannot be considered the preponderant position of the Caribbean.
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She has still a preponderant power in allocating business.
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But may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed in the lapse of ages?
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Hence, though some novels have appeared of considerable merit, the worthless have been greatly preponderant.
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To be preponderant, she knows it is necessary for her to be a maritime power.
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Bases of salts, preponderant action of, on Drosera, 186
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The congregation is a mixture of working and middle class people; the former kind being preponderant.
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