How To Use Preponderance In A Sentence
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a preponderance of evidence against the defendant
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And yet it is in France that the people of the communes, the burgherdom, reached the most complete and most powerful development, and ended by acquiring the most decided preponderance in the general social structure.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
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Their apparent preponderance may be due to the fact that they have been the most commonly used corticosteroids.
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We think it would be found that among women conversions from Protestantism to Catholicism preponderate, and that among men the preponderance is the other way about.
The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
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But there's, uh, still a preponderance of evidence against him.
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For the transcriber, the collection is a treasure trove of little discoveries -- the antiquated use of "farinaceous" instead of today's "pasta"; the remarkable preponderance of oyster dishes; the revelation that steaks cost twenty-five cents, not twenty-five dollars.
The New York Public Library: All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections
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A prodigious amount of backcombing and a preponderance of blondes created a fair few leonine manes but the effect was more catwalk queen than Lion King.
Has the Little Black Dress finally fallen out of fashion?
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The advice isn't entirely remiss, but over the years, such glib counsel has resulted in a preponderance of breezy, aimless books long on episodic family humour but short on meaning.
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If during this process negative electrons hold the preponderance in the body, the fever is of a feeble, adynamic type.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
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The preponderance of French names in those early pioneering days is perhaps not surprising, as eccentricity has always been a hallmark of the French.
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Moreover, as before remarked, the apparent imbecility resulting from confederacy and municipalism combined was for a season remedied by the actual preponderance of Holland.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
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A preponderance of evidence suggests a causal link between HPV infection and cervical neoplasia.
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But otherwise very little, jokes or otherwise, that we hadn't heard before, and a preponderance of what blogger Julian Dobson has called "pointless forelock-tugging to the Taxpayers 'Alliance".
Society Daily 07.07.10
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Still, some soldiers criticize the preponderance of awards for officers because it encourages politicking and smacks of careerism.
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Yet I have to say that its rigorous and intransigent atonal style with a preponderance of chromatic note clusters and major seventh and minor ninth intervals now seems outworn, its initial impact long dissipated.
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They were unfazed by the preponderance of same-sex couples holding hands, and all smooching was "disgusting" or "mushy" -- regardless of the gender of the "old people" (anyone over 22) doing the osculating.
Michele Somerville: Gay Catholic Ministry and Straight Pride
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Thus, far from being dispersed sparsely, haphazardly, and inefficiently within a sea of nonfunctional sequences (one that supposedly accumulated by mutation), functional genetic information is densely concentrated on the DNA molecule." (p. 461) "Far from containing a preponderance of" junk "— nonprotein-coding regions that supposedly perform no function — the genome is dominated by sequences rich in functional information." (p. 461)
The Memory Hole
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Thus the preponderance rule produces the same kind of injustice as the "reasonable doubt" rule, which can be critiqued from the same external standpoint.
The Preponderance of the Evidence, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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There is a preponderance of female students in the music department.
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There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
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The preponderance of scientific evidence supports the overriding similarities between men and women.
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The term clawback'' is bandied about more these days because of the preponderance of Ponzi schemes that have collapsed in recent years.
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This conclusion is supported by the great preponderance of informed commentary.
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The heavy preponderance of manual workers in Knowsley suffered massive job losses as the local firms and the branch plants of large companies closed throughout Merseyside.
Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
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There is also some basket weaving, embroidery, woodworking, and other craft production, but the preponderance of artifacts sold at the markets is imported from Africa.
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The preponderance of early cementation and brecciation (in thin beds) towards the top of the Langport Member is compatible with reduced sedimentation rate (resulting from deepening and sediment starvation).
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Instead, the vast preponderance of DNA apparently regulates the expression of genes in ways so complex and unpredictable as to be ultimately unspecifiable.
Stanton Peele: Human Genome Project: We Discover Much that Genetics Can't Tell Us
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Of late, the preponderance of public relations firms have leveraged that influence against activists and proposed legislation that threaten big business.
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The balance of trust and the preponderance of suspicion were all skewed in Taunton today.
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This results in relatively calm, nonexplosive eruptions, and a preponderance of lava.
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Because of the preponderance of the mineral anorthite (a calcium-rich variety of the mineral plagioclase feldspar) this rock type is called anorthosite.
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“Far from containing a preponderance of “junk” – nonprotein-coding regions that supposedly perform no function – the genome is dominated by sequences rich in functional information.” p.
Signature in the Cell: self-contradiction and repetition - The Panda's Thumb
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Of late, the preponderance of public relations firms have leveraged that influence against activists and proposed legislation that threaten big business.
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There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
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The heavy preponderance of manual workers in Knowsley suffered massive job losses as the local firms and the branch plants of large companies closed throughout Merseyside.
Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
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There was nothing resembling the present popularity of a treatment which gives generals so immense a preponderance over particulars — somewhat to the neglect of the old saying about the snare that lies hidden in generals, many persons being tolerably indifferent about the dolus so long as they can make sure of the latet.
Voltaire
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The animal is likely to have been fairly short and broad to account for the even distribution of sclerite sizes, as an elongate morphology results in a preponderance of large sclerites.
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the preponderance of wealth and power
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The widespread use of overdubbing and the preponderance of drum tracks with herky-jerky tempos and wayward rhythms has become a prominent style in pop and R&B that emphasizes rhythmic agility over vocal expression.
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He concluded: 'The overwhelming preponderance of this evidence is favourable to the defendant doctors.
Times, Sunday Times
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On Booker shortlists, the preponderance of some subjects over others has long been a source of comment.
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The preponderance of evidence suggests that he's guilty.
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Liver may only be koshered through broiling, because of the preponderance of blood in it.
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With regard to the environmental condition, many of the examined samples contain a preponderance of ferns and lycopod types, indicative of a maritime climate.
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Since society has a minimal concern with the outcome of such private suits, plaintiff's burden of proof is a mere preponderance of the evidence.
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This preponderance of Asians, particularly in the vast numbers of Japanese tourists the city attracts, has left its marks on the cuisine.
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The preponderance of shops nowadays is an unhappy sign of modern life.
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He raised the possibility that this might have something to do with male preponderance at the very top of research science.
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In point of fact, the Soviet Union did develop what might best be called a preponderance of familiar weapons.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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The preponderance of evidence for intrasediment growth and dissolution of evaporites supports a sabkha and, in particular, a saline mudflat setting.
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Part of the reason for this is rather prosaic: the preponderance of left-wing composers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The preponderance of evidence suggests that he's guilty.
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Without denying that they have weight, I think it may be made to appear that they have not the unquestionable preponderance, which is assumed for them.
Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching
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As with pharmaceutical groups, they have a preponderance of activities outside the UK.
Times, Sunday Times
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Part of the reason for this is rather prosaic: the preponderance of left-wing composers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Especially in the place of abundance of reengineering information, the enterprise utilized IT suitably can have hugeness preponderance than competitor and executed BPR successfully.
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Ereignis, as equality and reciprocity of the two sides of the double relation, contradicts the absolute preponderance and antecedence of being over man.
Archive 2007-01-01
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These include overcrowded classrooms, a preponderance of poorly trained teachers and inadequate counseling staffs, and unchallenging curricula.
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Science proceeds on preponderance of evidence, not on finality.
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He took Carlyle for the representative of what he called "Hebraism," and he desired to balance the undue preponderance of that by insisting upon the necessity of the Hellenistic element in culture.
Among Famous Books
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I think that liberal democracy, at least as we understand the idea here in the United States, requires that the overwhelming preponderance of the people be law-abiding.
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The atrabilious temperament or melancholia is, according to Aristotle, a natural disposition in which there is a preponderance of black bile over the other humours.
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As with pharmaceutical groups, they have a preponderance of activities outside the UK.
Times, Sunday Times
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He concluded: 'The overwhelming preponderance of this evidence is favourable to the defendant doctors.
Times, Sunday Times
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And, anticipating the defection of the supposed hero to the dark side, there is a preponderance of broodily low-key numbers.
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the least preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale
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56Mihopoulou (1995-96: 37), foregrounding the genesis of Skoupa, confirms the antipathy felt by many readers towards the preponderance of Resistance literature which, in her assessment, 'masqueraded' as feminist literature.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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At first glance there appears to be a preponderance of narrow gauge or what I would call miniature railways.
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We think the preponderance of evidence does show that in fact Yucca Mountain is a suitable site for spent fuel disposal.
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Anything that gives you a tactical advantage, such as a preponderance to one side, helps.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also like Atari, casual consumers will grow increasingly disappointed with the preponderance of crappy titles cluttering the shelves, and since they're casual they won't bother checking reviews sites to see what to avoid and will just avoid buying games period when they've been burned a few times (something the Wii is already experiencing as their software sales increase last year was a pale reflection of the hardware increase). grognard66 said:
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today
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The late tribunitial ministry has transmitted to us as its monument little beyond the disclosure of a chronic disposition to tyranny and periodical fluctuations of preponderance.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
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His preponderance of strength allowed him to perform several offensive operations in near parallel.
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Second, this is a particularly dangerous stage of the Credit cycle, as the preponderance of lending and speculating is reverberating through non-productive debt creation.
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If one of the three remaining true-blue social conservatives emerges with the preponderance of that vote in South Carolina, the pressure on the other two will become intense to pull out.''
Hope Dims for an Evangelical Pick
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The preponderance of the evidence is that the effect is statistical clustering, nothing more.
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But if that preponderance is leading to a world in which Russian and Chinese launch commanders are fingering nuclear hair triggers, the game may not be worth the candle.
The Perils of Primacy
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The preponderance of data came from experiments with temperate and coniferous trees.
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That so-called preponderance standard is typically used in civil cases.
The Seattle Times
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The authors of the study published in Science noted a number of interesting things - a preponderance of genes encoding protein kinases, evidence for substantial horizontal gene flow from bacteria and archaebacteria, and a streamlined core gene expression machinery transcription and RNA processing.
The Panda's Thumb: Research News Archives
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The franchise reform of June 1907 ensured a preponderance of landowners in the Third and Fourth Dumas.
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Notice the preponderance of single-rein snaffle bridles.
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the preponderance of good over evil
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The preponderance of studies support the connection between newspaper content and circulation.
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But the harsh facts of human history belie this benign revisionist interpretation of the meaning of "subdue," and the preponderance of unambiguous passages in the Bible giving mankind dominion over nature's bounty argue against any idea that religion is environmentalism in disguise.
Jeff Schweitzer: A New Environmental Ethic
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Anything that gives you a tactical advantage, such as a preponderance to one side, helps.
Times, Sunday Times
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At one time, for example, I accentuate my empirical, finite consciousness, and place myself in opposition to infiniteness ; at another I exclude myself from myself, condemn myself, and give the preponderance to the infinite consciousness.
I am the fire and the water which touch each other
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A preponderance of live music met the art deco glory of the Paramount Theatre on opening night of Oakland Ballet's third fall repertory program.
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Progressists, therefore, who combated ecclesiastical preponderance in the Philippines, demanded the retirement of the friars to conventual reclusion or missions, and the appointment of _clérigos_, or secular clergymen to the vicarages and curacies.
The Philippine Islands
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In a civil case, jurors need only a preponderance of evidence to rule for the plaintiff and the defendant must testify.
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The preponderance of the available evidence indicates there was no attack.
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The Dipylidium caninum , Ancylostoma and Toxocara canis are preponderance and the major object in repelling worm.
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He began with what may be described as a preponderance of the poetic element over the dramatic.
The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar
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Not only had the slaveholders perpetrated the preponderance of atrocities, and with impunity at that, but they had begun to boast that northerners and New Englanders were congenitally soft and altogether lacking in "chivalric" and soldierly qualities.
The Man Who Ended Slavery
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Again, as regeneration does not destroy but merely restrains the natural depravity, or innate, sinful dispositions of the Christian, (for these still remain in him after conversion,) it must consist mainly in a change, of that _increased predisposition to sin arising from action, of that preponderance of _sinful habits_ formed by voluntary indulgence of our natural depravity, after we have reached years of moral agency.
American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann
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The preponderance of state enterprises affords the material guarantee for the fulfilment of this task.
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(Of course, given the preponderance of diet books, I have to wonder if dieting is the new religion).
Desperately Seeking Spirituality (plus comments, writing, and music) – Brian Keene
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The zircon data clearly lead to the conclusion that a Proterozoic terrane is the main detritus source because of the preponderance of grains from this age.
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Part of the reason for this is rather prosaic: the preponderance of left-wing composers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The former tended to have a flora similar to that typical in western Europe during the 1970s, including a preponderance of lactobacilli and eubacteria, while the latter tended to have more clostridia species, including C. difficile.
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Because of the preponderance of the mineral anorthite (a calcium-rich variety of the mineral plagioclase feldspar) this rock type is called anorthosite.
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Of late, the preponderance of public relations firms have leveraged that influence against activists and proposed legislation that threaten big business.
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On October 3, the committee suspended publication of the so-called annex bulletin on the Suez situation because of “the preponderance of indications that the UK and France do not intend to resort to force at this time.”
Eisenhower 1956
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This preponderance of military spending all ten years of Obama's medium - term scenario.
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Of late, the preponderance of public relations firms have leveraged that influence against activists and proposed legislation that threaten big business.
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By 1750 the Dutch Republic's decline was manifest and Britain had established its preponderance.
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J. Scott Wood, an archaeologist for the Tonto National Forest who heads a team working to resolve the matter, says he will try to determine the cultural affiliation of the remains and burial objects based on a "preponderance of evidence -- archaeological, ethnohistoric, and linguistic.
Repatriation Standoff
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James thus allows a confessed murderess to denounce not only the weakling prelate but also the great preponderance of Christians who share his Laodicean faith: ‘Poor bishop!’
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The assumption made by the colonial ethnographer about their societies having been "matriarchal" in composition is potentially misleading because matrilineality, while perhaps giving the preponderance of importance for purposes of inheritance to the female line, is not necessarily commensurate with female governance or domination.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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Were the thirst of riches to take absolute possession of every class of society, it would infallibly produce the evil complained of by those who see with regret what they call the preponderance of the industrious system; but the increase of commerce, by multiplying the connections between nations, by opening an immense sphere to the activity of the mind, by pouring capital into agriculture, and creating new wants by the refinement of luxury, furnishes a remedy against the supposed dangers.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Credit vehicles increasingly are used for a preponderance of transactions, with settlement made through book entries and expanding financial claims.
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When a wedge sounds boxy, it is often blamed on the preponderance of room modes in a live performance space.
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The preponderance of Latin terms seemed to serve two purposes.
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He also points to the troubling preponderance of women in teaching: there are now more women than men teaching in our secondary schools.
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As for colostomies, despite the fact that removal of most of the colon proved unnecessary in many cases and psychologically devastating, I still feel confident that in the long run, this seeemingly "radical" expansion of the surgeon's role in treating GI cancer will result in a preponderance of decisive cures.
Hullabaloo
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The milk indeed shows an unusually great preponderance of the non-nitrogenized elements, and this seems to correspond with the wants of the animal, since fatty tissues are greatly developed in elephants.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
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In a civil case, jurors need only a preponderance of evidence to rule for the plaintiff and the defendant must testify.
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At last , it puts forward the new doctrineof human nature: pursuing preponderance of existence.