How To Use Predominant In A Sentence

This part of the film develops slowly, and is predominantly a straight drama.
Research forms the predominant part of my job.
A varietal is a wine made predominantly from one specific grape and is labeled as such, for example, California Merlot.
Burundi and Rwanda are predominantly agricultural economies with their primary exports being coffee and tea.
And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.

Since the feminine is out of balance in the female body and the predominant culture, women are not receiving the nurturance they need to fuel their outer work. Wild Feminine
Thylakoids of grana stacks are mostly abundant in PSII complexes, while PSI complexes are predominant in stroma lamellae.
The predominant opinion voiced by Detroit's Arab population seems to be one of frustration.
Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation. Archive 2006-11-01
The Mediterranean at this particular spot is any colour except blue, the predominant hue being dirty grey.
Hippocampus severnsi is distinguished from congeners in having a combination of: extremely small size (height 13 mm, standard length 15 mm); 12 trunk rings; 27 tail rings; reduced ossification of inferior and ventral trunk ridges; 14 dorsal fin rays; 10 pectoral fin rays; anal fin small or absent; medium length snout which lacks a bulbous tip; raised, angular coronet; single gill opening on midline directly behind coronet supported by raised cleithral bone; scattered tubercles on trunk and tail; predominant colour dark brown (sometimes slightly marbled) with large, bright red patch covering dorsolateral surfaces of trunk rings 1-4; tiny white dots scattered all over; pale posterior section of tail with dark transverse bands. Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS)
The increase in teacher aide support was predominantly to students in the non-metropolitan area.
The chest radiograph usually reveals bilateral, mid - and upper-lobe predominant reticulonodular infiltrates, as well as hilar and mediastinal adenopathy. CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries
Predominantly, as a developing recipient country, China have gained the actual effects since implementing reform and opening policy.
Donald added: ‘the switch from a predominantly narrative mode of thought to a predominantly analytic or theoretic mode apparently requires a wrenching cultural transformation’.
They are made up predominantly of ectodermal components (hair, calcifications, sebaceous material) and have a large cystic component.
It is a show but not a contest, and, thankfully, the beauty of sport comes predominantly from the contest.
These predominantly greywacke mountains are higher than others in the region. Richmond temperate forests
Since the bearings and piston rings are lubricated predominantly in the hydrodynamic regime, a lubricant with a lower viscosity should lead to a thinner oil film and thus lower friction.
The city's population is predominantly Irish.
The reason was that, at that historic period, the mainstream of Chinese new poem creation, the predominant developing tendency, having ultimately freed from the traces left by Misty poets.
Built on a predominantly straight alignment, with no road crossings, the new line also merges with conventional track, cutting travel times to towns such as Nice, Monaco and Perpignan.
Sexual reproduction is the predominant force in the propagation of animals and many plants.
You’ve been predominantly a newsmagazine journalist, and your first book was an investigation of a true crime story, the so-called "ecoterrorism" attacks at Vail ski resort in Daniel Glick - An interview with author
This model was intended to enhance the practical skills and productivity of predominantly rural populations.
Not surprisingly, the result has been to recruit predominantly middle-class unemployed people into mainstream programmes.
Amanda's predominant emotion was that of confusion.
If your symptoms occur in autumn, fungal spores are likely to be the predominant cause. Times, Sunday Times
The fabrics he used were predominantly tweeds and wools in countryside colours: moss green, rust brown and autumnal red.
In orations of praise, and in invectives, the fancy is predominant, because the design is not truth, but to honour or dishonour, which is done by noble or by vile comparisons. Chapter VIII. Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects
Forced onto his right foot after a mazy solo run, the predominantly left-footed player saw his effort blocked.
In Turkmenistan, the predominant colour is green and the look is topped off with a natty beret and biker boots. Times, Sunday Times
The propagules of these predominantly arctic/alpine grasses consist of indeterminate spikelets, which revert to vegetative growth before dehiscing from the parent plant.
The principal feminist challenge to psychology's predominantly male subjects and masculine subject matter is, again, an egalitarian one.
And unlike the elegies the sonnets are predominantly poems of invocation, apostrophe and direct address, he writes.
A lot of venues have predominantly straight customers on some nights, with gay punters showing up on others.
I received my formal theological training at a predominantly white evangelical divinity school in the Chicago suburbs. Christianity Today
Late eluting aromatic fractions composed predominantly of bicyclic and polycyclic aromatic compounds, namely alkyl-napthalenes and alkylindenes.
But whatever the subject, the mood was predominantly one of escape and the medium one of romance.
But the term valley would convey an erroneous idea, since the space between these two dominant ranges is filled with numerous cross chains, making the mountain character predominant, while the valleys are exceptional. North Carolina and its Resources.
She works in a predominantly male environment.
And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
The introvert is the typical contemplative, predominantly interested in the inner world. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day
Reading and writing did not become the predominant method of sharing information until the spread of universal compulsory schooling, which is much more recent than printing. Times, Sunday Times
Parents, psychologists and politicians are still struggling to find ways to coax these recluses - who are predominantly male - out of their self-imposed exiles.
In all cases, we obtained wax extracts from flight feathers, predominantly primaries and secondaries.
If you have predominantly oily skin throughout the seasons, opt for a toner that contains witch hazel, instead.
In this region, woods work and trucking is predominant. The Need For Unity In Canada
The tumor is predominantly located subcutaneously or in the deep soft tissue of the extremities and trunk, peritoneum, or retroperitoneum.
The clientele were predominantly student-types and twentysomethings, some working, others just taking a break.
This, not very popular, livery continued for some time, but the buses began to look very grimy and in the late 1970s a variation of the former tram livery of predominantly green with cream relief was introduced.
Although it is at odds with our predominant medical ethical culture, many families and patients desire nondisclosure of bad news.
To help him work with the predominantly non-English-speaking crew, he was given a laser pointer.
Speaking as an anglophone who from time to time tries to ressurect his Grade 12 French, and as someone who has also spent some time in predominantly French-only parts of the country such as Chicoutimi, I immediately recognize the confusion introduced into the interview by this question:, what would you have done about this economy and this crisis. Mike watkins dot ca
The staining was predominantly located in endothelial and perivascular cells within the tumors.
The company says the auction mart site has been chosen because it is a predominantly light industrial area.
By contrast, there has been a growth in predominantly casual and part-time jobs in services such as retail, tourism and hospitality.
There is always an element of mystery about why one form of a sport becomes predominant. Times, Sunday Times
I thus associate the compact world of the admirable hill-top, the world of a predominant golden-brown, with a general invocation of sensibility and fancy, and think of myself as going forth into the lingering light of summer evenings all attuned to intensity of the idea of compositional beauty, or in other words, freely speaking, to the question of colour, to intensity of picture. Italian Hours
Table 5.3, by the way, asserts the the five-kingdom model of Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, and Monera is the “system predominantly used today” p. ACSI v. Stearns, aka Wendell Bird vs. UC - The Panda's Thumb
A house purchase used to rely predominantly on one income. Times, Sunday Times
The reason was that, at that historic period, the mainstream of Chinese new poem creation, the predominant developing tendency, having ultimately freed from the traces left by Misty poets.
Their predominant expression was good nature, a kind of elephantine docility, which neutralized the awe inspired by his immense size. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
The biceps femoris muscle was involved in 81% of all injuries and was the sole or predominant muscle injured in 72% of injuries.
Attacking it from another angle, there are physical ways of moving that signal the character of the person and his predominant emotions. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
Dancers have a predominant role in this performance.
The locally-managed Urban Co-operative Bank advances loans in millions to the needy sections which predominantly include non-Navayaths and the Hindus.
His new building links old and new in a literal way, via two new floors at the top that use predominantly glass. Times, Sunday Times
Not surprisingly, there's a predominant use of deictics throughout the text, ‘now’ ‘here’ ‘I’, a device used here to confirm, the congruence of the writer with the time and place of writing.
Their jhuggi, just next to the Malibu Towers, is built on a plot of land owned by a Jat -- a member of the predominant, land-owning caste in Haryana, the state of which Gurgaon is a part -- whom they call Pehelvan ( "wrestler") and pay 600 Rupees a month for the right to live there illegally. Parvez Sharma: Delhi's Servant Crisis and the Commonweath Games
The subject material is predominantly allied to separation technologies on an industrial scale with the likely audience being chemical and process engineers.
In the works of Tarantino, a predominant concept is the concept of postcapitalist consciousness. Constructive dedeconstructivism in the works of Tarantino
In addition to being a proscribed ethnic group by the government, the Chinese were predominantly city-dwellers, making them vulnerable to the Khmer Rouge's revolutionary ruralism. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The first, or most anterior pre-molar of the lower jaw has one predominant cusp or cone; the second, like both in the upper jaw, is "bicuspid," or bi-tuberculate, as in man. More Science From an Easy Chair
If the light striking a blue surface is predominantly blue, the blue object will appear almost white in a black and white photograph.
We don't have to be the predominant force, by any stretch of imagination now.
Yet about the same percentage say their church is predominantly one racial or ethnic group. Christianity Today
Not surprisingly, their heuristic - the equivalent of what we call intuition, or common sense - is that of Suburbia, which has been the predominant mode of white American thought since the late 1960s. MIDDLE CLASS ANGST: THE POLITICS OF LEMMINGS, Part I
In retrospect we can see LeÅniewski's obsession with the fine detail of axiomatics and his rejection of semantics as conditioned by his own idiosyncratic development and the predominant research interests of the 1910s and 1920s. StanisÅaw LeÅniewski
Northern waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensisA migratory bird, found predominantly in North America, with a throat lightly streaked brown to black. Rare birds flock to British shores in record numbers
The discarded remains included bones and skulls of mangabeys, large, predominantly ground-living monkeys.
The predominant feature of the shoreline is the rocky cliffs, extending under water to encompass a lush kelp forest, submarine reefs and offshore seamounts.
If his pacifist views had been the predominant ones, at certain times, life would be very different now.
In the Black Earth region wheat was the predominant winter crop, with rye elsewhere.
Cash purchases are predominant; Britons struggle to get the high mortgages needed to buy here. Times, Sunday Times
Quoting Rabbi Denise Eger of Kol Ami, a predominantly gay and lesbian synagogue in West Hollywood, Kushner said, "We don't have a Jew to lose, and we're losing them all the time. Jessica Youseffi: Welcoming Synagogues: Queering Jewish Religious Spaces
The presence of plants on predominantly north facing slopes suggests that plants are unable to tolerate the driest sites or sandy soils that are common in many areas of the piedmont.
You must have predominantly fast-twitch, white fibres in your muscles to generate really fast, explosive action.
We know that household and village subsistence economies were predominant in India until at least the early years of the independence era.
The first revival was predominantly middle class in its character and personnel; the second was demotic, with little time for genteel sensibilities.
Two predominant features of the fluorescent protein fluorophore have important implications for its utility as a probe. Archive 2005-10-01
In Dang, elaborate folds of drapery and heads of big hair, viewed from behind, are the predominant motifs.
Fallon also said a largely Iraqi-led security presence along the Syrian border crossing has cut off a major transit route for al-Qaida-linked fighters, who are predominantly Sunni.
Vegetative cover is predominantly semi-desert grassland and arid shrubland, except for high elevation islands of oak, juniper, and pinyon pine woodland. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
His early work was predominantly in fairly lightweight materials, including wood and mixed media, and was often brightly coloured, but in the late 1980s he changed direction.
The sets are effective; economical and fairly traditional, with drained out colour, predominantly greys and blues.
These wines are made predominantly from Semillon, with a varying proportion of Sauvignon blanc and a small amount of Muscadelle.
Turn-of-the-century jewelry both here and abroad was dominated by faceted precious stones, with diamonds predominant.
At first the fact the audience was predominantly female surprised me, before I realised why.
The lowest range above Djidda is calcareous; but its rocks soon change into gneiss, and a species of granite, with schorl in the place of feldspath, accompanied by predominant masses of quartz, and some mica. Travels in Arabia
Absence of the infundibular stem, abnormal thickening of the stem, and mass lesions involving the infundibular stem were the predominant abnormalities.
While students are predominantly male, any driver with a valid license can sign up.
Other morphology that this tumor may exhibit would be a predominantly papillary, microcystic, or blastemal growth pattern.
I believe the practice is a Christianization of the elaborate contractual rites of the various Nordic peoples who received the Faith in the period after Rome's fall and is thus a somewhat alien addition to our predominantly Mediterranean liturgical roots, though its antiquity does also give it a certain merit as well. Liturgical Wedding Crashers
However, about 90% of mezcal is made with the espadín agave, perhaps 5% uses tobalá, and the remaining types, found predominantly in the wild, comprise the balance. A connoisseur's guide to mezcal
The area to the north and east of the appeal site is within a predominantly dense residential area.
Morphology and 18S rRNA phylogeny suggest that the microaerophilic amoeboflagellate Psalteriomonas lanterna, which possesses hydrogenosomes and elusive "modified mitochondria", belongs to the heterolobosea, a taxon that consists predominantly of aerobic, mitochondriate organisms. BioMed Central - Latest articles
The kitchen cupboards looked unsalvageable; like most standard units they were predominantly chipboard. Times, Sunday Times
Internationally the term suburb conjures up images of a quiet, relatively unspoilt, less densely populated and predominantly residential community in the vicinity of a city. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Love of peace is the predominant feeling of many people today.
The color you choose will be determined by the predominant color of the room.
The treatment for OHSS is predominantly supportive, with the correction of electrolyte imbalances and expansion of intravascular volume thereby reducing hemoconcentration and promoting diuresis.
The predominant focus in the trauma literature has been on the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, a disorder that, by definition, focuses on the intrapersonal effects of traumatic events on the individual trauma survivor.
Traditionally inspired music is predominant in the arts and represents cultural continuity with the past.
This fund seeks to capitalise on pockets of value found predominantly in large companies. Times, Sunday Times
It goes, however, slower and slower, and curving its journey less and less, until at last its motion in remote obscurity is again so sluggish, that the sun's attraction is once more predominant, and able to recall the truant towards its realms of light. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852
The dot location task, which involves predominantly the right hemisphere, was expected to remain unaffected.
St. Lucia, and Martinique are predominantly composed of acid andesite and dacitic rocks. Grenada
Republican efforts to repeal estate taxes and lower income taxes - predominantly of benefit to the wealthy - is now being marketed to the public as a way to stimulate the economy and to forestall an economic downturn.
Swallowing fluoride creates dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow, brown and / or stained teeth - now afflicting up to 48\% of school children, up to 4\% moderate / severe, according to the The CDC's 2001 fluoride recommendations says, "The laboratory and epidemiologic research that has led to the better understanding of how fluoride prevents dental caries indicates that fluoride's predominant effect is posteruptive and topical ... Scientific Blogging
While the colour will be predominantly green, there are many textures and shapes to play with. Times, Sunday Times
It was especially in the towns administered in the king's name and by his provosts that there was a development of this spirit, which has long been the predominant characteristic of French burgherdom. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
In England, for example, Primitive Methodists were mainly working class, Congregationalists were a cut above Baptists, while Unitarians and Quakers were predominantly the families of professional men and businessmen.
The walls, floors and ceilings are predominantly white. Times, Sunday Times
Some bits I have passing familiarity with do not have organised religion - lots of localised deities, yes, but no festivals that I'd be certain of - while others are patchworked this religion and its festivals are predominant _here_, in the next village over a different calendar will be kept, and _that_ subgroup is celebrating something else entirely and has a different day of rest. A year of festivities
The stromal component, however, typically appears benign and predominantly consists of interlacing bundles of smooth muscle.
Contrary to predominant opinion, this mixing is as much guided by spontaneous inspiration based on aural-reaction as it is the subjective will of the mixer.
I would say Bristol is still predominantly drum and bass but it is evolving into a house city. The Sun
Bile acids in the rat are predominantly conjugated with taurine.
The filling - described as nougat - is predominantly a hazelnut paste with a little bit of cinnamon. Chocablog
It covered predominantly skilled and organized workers while the casual labour problem and that of juvenile labour was untouched.
The band is fitted over the area of the head which is abnormally predominant, and redirects the growth into flattened areas.
Here I will mention only that in experiences of a mystical, intuitive type, the universal aspect is predominant, that is, the invasion of the consciousness by a wider Reality. C. G. Jung and Psychosynthesis, by Roberto Assagioli
If the predominant tone is more folk than funk, that's no bad thing. Times, Sunday Times
The marine species occur predominantly in tropical waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, but several also range far poleward in these waters.
In addition to that I think that the ending is less then definite, taking into account the predominant viewpoint of the film and the combinative delusional and Oedipal connotations of the film.
Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins.
Disgracing the predominantly southern, rural, Christian sport of angling, which is school-speak for fishing, by the way. CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2006
The playing surface was a sea of green on Saturday evening and to make matters worse both teams wore togs which were predominantly white.
At first silver pine and totara were the chosen timbers, but later the demand changed to kahikatea and rimu, and these timbers were the predominant product from the West Coast timber industry.
In the lowland areas podocarps and hardwoods were predominant with kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) growing in swampy areas and rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) on drier sites. Southland temperate forests
Amanda's predominant emotion was that of confusion.
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and Decay prevail. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Chlorite, predominantly magnesium chlorite, is the principal gangue, and its intimate association with the uraninite indicates that the two minerals formed together.
Most Indian diets are predominantly cereal based and thus higher carbohydrate intakes have become usual for people with diabetes unlike diabetic subjects in western countries.
Epimedium is predominantly grown for its elegant foliage, which often stays on the plant throughout the year. Times, Sunday Times
The book forced me to contemplate my own intentions in participating in a graduate education program that has a partnership with a predominantly Black school.
Operative findings revealed a mass within the left broad ligament, predominantly anterior to the uterus and crossing the midline.
Other predominant reasons Anderson presents for the pervasive spread of nationalism are new inventions of ideal types of nationalist symbols and other idioms such as lexicological terms that exclude, stereotype, and stress human differences in lieu of bridging human ideological gaps. Radovan Karadzic's website and blog
The masons, a highly secretive society which traces its roots back to medieval craft associations, are active in this predominantly Muslim but secular country.'
The county is predominantly heavily glaciated mountains and uplands with a coast of cliffs and bays.
Both audience and player alike were predominantly Black for that gestation period.
The predominantly middle-class character of the suburbs and the commuting population was to have important social consequences.
These features are also shared with marginal sculptures of predominantly secular subject matter, such as several quatrefoils from the west portals of Amiens Cathedral and figural corbels from Noyon.
It is unusual in that it is a dark albatross; most other albatrosses are predominantly white.
Yellow is the predominant colour this spring in the fashion world.
The people who currently monitor electronic tags are predominantly low paid with minimal training.
The new solar powered FM transmitter will broadcast 24 hours a day with programmes predominantly in Pashto and Persian.
Flat cones are used for sites where treatment areas are predominantly flat, and beveled cones are used to treat areas that present themselves at an angle.
The predominant emissions from uncoated wood and wood-based materials were aldehydes, mainly acetaldehyde, propanal, butanal, pentanal, hexanal, and acetone.
I would say Bristol is still predominantly drum and bass but it is evolving into a house city. The Sun
Because of their predominantly vertical orientation, the basilar segmental bronchi of the right lower lobe are routinely sectioned transversely on CT.
The Celeriac is known as the beast of vegetables a turnip rooted, celery topped winter crop that is predominantly used in stews or soups.
It is this that leads to the dependency culture predominant among deaf people in integrated education.
Rationalism and the neocapitalist paradigm of context, the predominant concept is the concept of patriarchial culture and there are a number of narratives concerning the bridge between consciousness and class may be discovered. Dr-rndmprsn Diary Entry
In natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster, an amylase isozyme with the lowest amylase activity is predominant.
We are concerned with the predominantly horizontal mean flow of a fluid whose mean density varies vertically.
The way negative feedback is given is predominantly through negative assessments, which represent a socially problematic action according to research on ordinary talk-in-interaction (Pomerantz, 1984).
Though he is predominantly a satirist, the main stylistic influence on his work is W. H. Auden.
Finland is a recently urbanised society - Finland used to be predominantly rural until the late 1940s when it became more industrial.
These features are also shared with marginal sculptures of predominantly secular subject matter, such as several quatrefoils from the west portals of Amiens Cathedral and figural corbels from Noyon.
We also saw a citreoline trogon, a gorgeous bird with a predominantly yellow underside.
The main bedroom of the apartment is predominantly white, partly as an antidote to the primary colours in the other rooms. Times, Sunday Times
Fats in our food are categorized according to the predominant fatty acid that is present.
The influence of feudalism has been most predominant in the political sphere.
The geographical location of the installations and predominant meteorological conditions and sources of danger arising from the location of the site 2.
But rural development has long been a staple of counterinsurgency efforts in predominantly agricultural economies facing guerrilla wars. Wonk Room » Holbrooke Emphasizes Agricultural Development In Afghanistan
In this predominantly male, working-class climate, the Salvationist vision stresses hard work, discipline and self-transformation in service to others.
Trade credits are predominantly used to supplement media campaigns and Active has an established relationship with many UK media owners and agencies. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
In 1608, Oswald Croll published his Basilica chymica, a treatise devoted to a predominantly Paracelsian iatrochemistry.
The larger canvases in the series ‘The Sky is Crying’ are predominantly dark in tonality.
Once the buyers, predominantly English farmers, had bought their herds the common practice was to hire some local drovers to drive the cattle south into England.
Broadly they fall into two camps: French or Bohemian, depending on whether they cloud and whether they taste predominantly of aniseed.
In the end, Thomas Jefferson's heroic status remained predominantly unshaken.
The 65 987 participants were predominantly male and middle aged.
These people are predominantly Russian Orthodox by religion.
Its materialism, its attribution to nature of power sufficient to carry out all her ends, its analysis of matter into ultimate physical _individua_ incognisable by sense, while yet it insists that the senses are the fountains of all knowledge, [62] are points which bring it into correspondence with hypotheses at present predominant. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
The southern half of Italy had always been predominantly conservative and royalist. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
If genuinely free elections were permitted, power would inevitably shift towards tribes in the South, predominantly the Ewe.
The participants are predominantly young emerging professionals in the fields of theatre, dance and visual performance, researchers, theoreticians and art managers.
Ciprofloxacin is largely excreted as an unchanged substance and elimination is predominantly via the kidneys.
Iraqan insurgency against the Government of Iraq and Coalition forces is primarily concentrated in Baghdad and in areas north, northeast, and west of the capital; the diverse, multigroup insurgency consists principally of Sunni Arabs with a shared desire to oust the Coalition, end US influence in Iraq, and reassert Sunni Arab dominance; a number of predominantly Shia militias, some associated with political parties, challenge governmental authority in Baghdad and southern Iraq Political pressure groups and leaders
And West Ham was not the only predominantly working-class area that gave rise to a political authority seemingly remote from popular allegiance.
Although the predominant style is the traditional log cabin, other styles range from Swiss chalets to upscale modern wooden condominiums.
Which country is the predominant member of the alliance?
Norwegian scabies occurs predominantly in elderly, infirm, or immunosuppressed people and in those with mental illness.
It has been described as a predominantly entomophilous species.
Amongst the which this last is of special use in moral and civil matters; how, I say, to set affection against affection, and to master one by another; even as we used to hunt beast with beast, and fly bird with bird, which otherwise percase we could not so easily recover: upon which foundation is erected that excellent use of praemium and paena, whereby civil states consist: employing the predominant affections of fear and hope, for the suppressing and bridling the rest. The Advancement of Learning
If the predominant tone is more folk than funk, that's no bad thing. Times, Sunday Times
Overall, though, the predominant notion in the human noggin is one of superiority. Archive for » 2009 » May : Sustainablog

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