How To Use Predominantly In A Sentence

This part of the film develops slowly, and is predominantly a straight drama.
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.
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 increase in teacher aide support was predominantly to students in the non-metropolitan area.
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.
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.
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.
The fabrics he used were predominantly tweeds and wools in countryside colours: moss green, rust brown and autumnal red.
Forced onto his right foot after a mazy solo run, the predominantly left-footed player saw his effort blocked.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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
The subject material is predominantly allied to separation technologies on an industrial scale with the likely audience being chemical and process engineers.
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
If the light striking a blue surface is predominantly blue, the blue object will appear almost white in a black and white photograph.
Yet about the same percentage say their church is predominantly one racial or ethnic group. Christianity Today
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.
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.
The first revival was predominantly middle class in its character and personnel; the second was demotic, with little time for genteel sensibilities.
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.
At first the fact the audience was predominantly female surprised me, before I realised why.
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
The treatment for OHSS is predominantly supportive, with the correction of electrolyte imbalances and expansion of intravascular volume thereby reducing hemoconcentration and promoting diuresis.
This fund seeks to capitalise on pockets of value found predominantly in large companies. Times, Sunday Times
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.
While the colour will be predominantly green, there are many textures and shapes to play with. Times, Sunday Times
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
The stromal component, however, typically appears benign and predominantly consists of interlacing bundles of smooth muscle.
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 marine species occur predominantly in tropical waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, but several also range far poleward in these waters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
The team will predominantly employ a cream-colored, pinstriped top at home. Mets to Channel the 1960s
Her work presented a lively contrast to the images by predominantly male war artists sent back from abroad. Times, Sunday Times
Parkinson's disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder, predominantly of the elderly, manifested by rigidity, tremors and movement difficulty.
Figures also show that most incidents take place in busy urban areas and predominantly in the South of England.
And the predominantly male legal establishment is naturally reluctant to be dispossessed.
Marriages in the community remained endogamous as long as suitable marriage partners existed, but after the second generation, partners were often found in the predominantly Dutch communities in the surrounding countryside.
Note the different scale at right for the `unidentied fragmentsa category which predominantly consists of bioclastic grains. Moberg's G. Bulloides « Climate Audit
Medicinal plants are predominantly wildcrafted and dispensed mainly by decoction, although prepared formulas are given.
And unlike the elegies the sonnets are predominantly poems of invocation, apostrophe and direct address, he writes.
And while the fabric focus is predominantly denim, the roster includes suede, leather and corduroy. Times, Sunday Times
It comes as no surprise that one of the results of these characteristics is the gender segmentation of labor markets and the predominantly female aspect of production in maquilas and export processing zones.
Titanium resides principally in heavy minerals: ilmenite, rutile, anatase and sphene, whereas Zr is located predominantly in zircon.
Let Us Pray consists of new prayers for public worship by twenty-nine pastors, predominantly Presbyterian.
These cracks were narrow splits, predominantly perpendicular to the seed's long axis.
But the legal system is not predominantly attentive to notions of equality and the rights of the individual.
Both feature works created since 2000 by artists who are predominantly under forty years of age.
The volcanoes in the park, which are predominantly andesitic in composition, fall into two groups on the basis of location, activity and size. Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
The colours are predominantly warm, green on black, black on gold, rich browns and deep reds.
These easterly areas cater predominantly for caravans, camping and chalets, offering the tourist many facilities and entertainment.
They are brilliant birds, predominantly bluish-green with a golden-brown back and a yellow throat. Times, Sunday Times
Her work presented a lively contrast to the images by predominantly male war artists sent back from abroad. Times, Sunday Times
Good jobs in the rural West once came predominantly from sawmills, ranches, and mines.
Both overlie a pronounced angular unconformity and both are predominantly fluvial deposits.
There is no doubt however, that they were designed predominantly for standees.
This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority.
Most of the hoopla connected with the year 2000 was predominantly secular in origin and character.
Pregnant women with epilepsy were recruited to the study, predominantly by community midwives.
Herring gulls are still predominantly coastal birds that nest on cliffs, but in recent years many of them have come inland to breed on buildings. Times, Sunday Times
The cytoplasm is predominantly acidophilic with some residual basophilia.
The rocks of Hirta are predominantly a complex of dolerite and microgranites with gabbro along the castellated west coast, intruded by basalt dykes. St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom
The mixture of warm- and cool-season grass pastures was predominantly switchgrass, big bluestem, and smooth brome.
We also want to bring in piano accordions into the band which at the moment is predominantly made up of button accordions.
Predominantly affecting young women, the central feature of this disorder is an abnormally low weight achieved by extreme caloric restriction.
The official criminal statistics present a picture of crime as being predominantly a working-class phenomenon.
In the 1960s and 1970s, psychologists strongly criticized the discipline's predominantly middle-class constitution.
These areas are predominantly used to rear hardy beef cattle and sheep which are sold in the autumn to be finished elsewhere.
Cytologie preparations contained a predominantly monomorphous population of tumor cells with moderate eosinophilic cytoplasm with fine, elongated cytoplasmic processes.
I was both a cool and deep dude, but predominantly cool - and a swatch book of 33 of these qualifying hues was ‘my colour.’
It's a predominantly flat landscape veined by creeks and rivers that meander haphazardly across vast flood plains.
You see the students here at Brother Martin high school, a mostly white school, but you're seeing these kids doing the skit here portraying players from the rival school, St. Augustine, which is predominantly black, and they're wearing these outfits with black shrouds over their faces. CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2009
Perhaps the richest insights into the predominantly rural social environment of pre-revolutionary Greece are contained in demotic verse, much of which was composed, sung, and transmitted to subsequent generations by women. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
Her painting was predominantly abstract, and her sculpture often made use of found items such as pieces of driftwood, which she used in painted constructions.
The jacket shows they belong in what is still predominantly a man's world. Times, Sunday Times
I find it disconcerting that it's legal to advertise these dating sites on programs used predominantly by teenagers and pre-teens.
Expression of four oleopollenin genes in eight individuals of the predominantly apomictic species Boechera holboellii.
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With the cross-country course offering predominantly dry, fast road conditions, it was no surprise that most of pro men chose to run hardtail rigs.
Despite the fact that residence is predominantly patrilocal, recent studies show that women maintain close bonds with their family of origin.
The Eight Pieces for Four Timpani, for example, of which four were performed — "Saeta" and "Canaries" are both early (1949) experiments in simultaneous tempi and metric modulation, and, with their predominantly triplet -, eighth -, and dotted-eighth-note vocabulary, there are fleeting audible glimpses of Reichian phase-shifting. Magna Carter (7): Either/Or
The remainder consists predominantly of members of thirty-six groups with populations of 100,000 or more.
And the predominantly male legal establishment is naturally reluctant to be dispossessed.
The statement late Thursday by Israel 's Ministry of Housing signaled the first publicly announced construction plans in predominantly Palestinian East Jerusalem since March, when the announcement of a tender for 1,600 units, during a visit to Israel by Vice President Joe Biden, roiled U.S. East Jerusalem Building Plan Imperils Talks
The Secretary General of Ijaw Youth Council, Engr. Udengs Eradiri, who spoke to Vanguard yesterday in Yenagoa, lamented what he described as the pervasive poverty in the predominantly riverine state due to the alleged manipulation of some few in the state treasury department. Vanguard News
The best-studied CAM models produce predominantly starch in the chloroplast as the transitory carbon reserve to support nocturnal carboxylation and malate synthesis.
The black lines indicate additional areas where water availability is predominantly influenced by snowmelt generated upstream (but runoff generated within these areas is not snowmelt-dominated).
Durum wheat is an important cereal whose grain is used predominantly for food products such as pasta, couscous, and burghul.
The statistics show that recorded crime is predominantly working-class.
All this is happening in a country that has predominantly an agriculture economy.
A floral print which is predominantly red, or possibly with a black background or a black border, could also work well here.
Sensory retinal degeneration, predominantly in the central tapetal fundus, was found in all dogs, and severity of changes varied with age of the dog.
The majority of Pedro de Cristo's surviving works are, however, written for four or five voices and in a predominantly imitative style although homophony is the basic texture in the settings of responsories and psalms, and short homorhythmic passages are common in other works. Archive 2009-04-01
The coca paste is then refined primarily in Columbia into cocaine HCI salt and it predominantly enters the U.S. in this form. Cocaine Toxicity
It covered predominantly skilled and organized workers while the casual labour problem and that of juvenile labour was untouched.
However this largely-quantitative work seeks to understand relationships predominantly in terms of economic power, thereby ignoring the importance of emotional bonds.
He did well to finish on the predominantly flat fast course to finish in the top 70.
Participants were all monolingual Japanese speakers from predominantly middle class families and attended school in a metropolitan region west of Tokyo.
The Highland space that provides the setting for much of the story's action is also a predominantly homosocial space notable for the bonding that takes place between Alan and Davie.
The immense social divide between the haves and have-nots in Peru, between the predominantly urban white bourgeoisie and the mainly "cholo" and Indian working class and peasantry, has not changed. Undefined
These are predominantly ductile structures that were overprinted by more brittle structures at later stages.
The Talbot was a predominantly white, slow, deep-throated, scent hound derived from the St Hubert Hound which had been developed in the 8th century.
The result of this subversion is a surprisingly mature and complex look at gender politics — revealing the power of comics and science fiction to address feminist issues and to reach a younger, predominantly male audience with a enlightening message. It’s a Woman’s World | PopPolitics.com
The most visible entrepreneurs of the high-tech industry are predominantly liberal. Times, Sunday Times
The parent rock is predominantly schist with only minor intrusions of greywacke. Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
Lilac-crowned Parrots are predominantly granivorous and do not supplement nestling diets with arthropod prey.

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