preponderate

Examples of preponderant

preponderant
Presence of females among the principal group in a multiple inhumation causes us to believe that women had a preponderant role within the society.
A preponderant power is immune from attack due to its superior capabilities.
The preponderant power of the central party is evident but it is not all-conquering.
Still, abandon is such a preponderant idiom that the two terms ought to be distinguished.
Yet states refrain from initiating war if a balance of power exists in which no single state or alliance of states has overwhelming preponderant power.
Although the aetiology is not fully understood, prostate cancer is known to increase with age and is more preponderant in certain races.
The one repeat class was, as expected, more often preponderant than previously, especially in panmictic populations, which makes comparisons across situations pointless.
Only when a challenger comes close to the preponderant power's capabilities does it initiate war.
The first distinguishes one value and sets it as the preponderant value.
The preponderant intonation contour across all types of utterances and all data points is a falling or rise-falling one.
A prime reason for this is the preponderant tedious style of the bureaucratic report in which paragraphing seems to be more important than building up a consistent and cogent argument.
The class forces fundamentally involved in a scientific controversy are research teams, even if it is their respective heads (bearers of the relation of ownership) who play the preponderant role.
My suspicion is motivated by the fact that preponderant use of one language in a given situation is accounted for either by referring to language dominance.
Single adult males were preponderant among the migrant workers.
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