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Meanings of preponderant in English

Having superior power and influence.

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        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.
        The Irish Times
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        Greg Clark, the business secretary, said: The safety of consumers is paramount.
        The Guardian
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        Of course, the safety of all concerned must be of paramount consideration.
        Jamaica Observer
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        Early identification and treatment of sleep disorders is therefore of paramount importance.
        Pubmed
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        LANGUAGE: Spanish and French are the official languages, though Spanish is predominant.
        Reuters
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        According to the experts the predominant contributing factors are technology and quality.
        The South African
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        In the early days of the internet, search was the predominant use.
        The Irish Times
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        The idea of a predominant Power in Europe was part of absolutism.
        Lectures on Modern history
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        Consequently, the predominant strain in the case study was not host restricted.
        Pubmed
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        But the principle of independence would be the overriding issue, scholars said.
        Reuters
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        Security has been an overriding concern for the government and Games' organisers.
        Reuters
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        Security has been an overriding concern for the government and Games' organizers.
        Reuters
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        That is largely true, with fears about terrorism overriding concerns about privacy.
        The Guardian
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        The insanity defense is based on one overriding concept in jurisprudence: responsibility.
        Stories: all-new tales
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        However, he restricts his concern to primary schools, where female teachers predominate.
        The Irish Times
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        Both across the world and in the Middle East, socioeconomic concerns predominate.
        The Guardian
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        In any such view, the wild, the aboriginal, the geographical greatly predominate.
        In the Catskills: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
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        One or more of the food-stuffs sometimes predominate in a single food.
        Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools
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        With the Irish, feeling and passion predominate; reason must bow before them.
        The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 / with a P...
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        Hence a fresh weight has only been thrown into the preponderating scale.
        A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 / Taken from a View of the ...
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        It has several thousand inhabitants, the foreign element preponderating, we should judge.
        Minnesota; Its Character and Climate / Likewise Sketches of Othe...
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        She was coloured, but of mixed race, the European element evidently preponderating.
        Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories
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        Why therefore should I-oranyone-offerto discriminate?-since evil is always the preponderating factor.
        The Secret Power
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        For others, again, it is the capillary phenomena which here act a preponderating part.
        The New Physics and Its Evolution
        Usage of preponderant in English
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        When he ascended the throne Germany's position on the continent was preponderant.
        Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4
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        Among the most important factors of history one was preponderant-thefactor of beliefs.
        The Psychology of Revolution
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        The southern stock, including settlers from Kentucky and Tennessee, was the preponderant class.
        Rise of the New West, 1819-1829
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        Turkey must become a really Mohammedan country, and Moslem influence must be preponderant.
        Crescent and Iron Cross
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        S: Then as for him whose good deeds are preponderant, these are the successful.
        Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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        No one sect is sufficiently preponderant to admit of that.
        Town Life in Australia
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        TS'U: semi-barbarous principality alone preponderant on the Yang- tsz River.
        Ancient China Simplified
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        Given its preponderant lead in the polls it certainly looks like Labour's election to lose.
        The Irish Times
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        First, the preponderant type of cells was formed by flattened, spindle cells with sparse cytoplasm.
        Pubmed
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        Nevertheless, when compared to Cuba, Jamaica cannot be considered the preponderant position of the Caribbean.
        The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future
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        She has still a preponderant power in allocating business.
        Europe—Whither Bound? / Being Letters of Travel from the Capital...
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        But may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed in the lapse of ages?
        The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
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        Hence, though some novels have appeared of considerable merit, the worthless have been greatly preponderant.
        A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 / Taken from a View of the ...
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        To be preponderant, she knows it is necessary for her to be a maritime power.
        Select Speeches of Kossuth
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        Bases of salts, preponderant action of, on Drosera, 186
        Insectivorous Plants
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        The congregation is a mixture of working and middle class people; the former kind being preponderant.
        Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregation...
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