preponderant

How To Use preponderant In A Sentence

• Music does not play a very preponderant role in the school's teaching.
• The nation, moreover, continues to enjoy the preponderant influence among national actors in determining what issues do and do not dominate the organization's agenda.
• Again, if the shortening of the central axis in the successive stages of hypogynous, perigynous, and epigynous flowers were an indication of preponderant reproduction and diminished vegetation, we should find everywhere some clear indications of this fact. Darwinism (1889)
• • From Genesis to Revelation, the preponderant biblical voice condemns the vast disparities of poverty and wealth that conservative policies cause and actively maintain. Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.: Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and the Sins of Ideological Christianity
• Unions exercise a preponderant influence only because, in the Eighties, the country abandoned socialist political programmes under a socialist president.
• In other words, it takes into account the preponderant aspect of a specific professional activity: whether it is weighted more heavily toward intellectual elaboration or toward muscularnervous effort.
• Mr. Hochschild's failure to present the preponderant judgment at the time is a way of further stacking the deck. War and Its Discontents
• There is a preponderant objection: popularity is worthless as an index of quality.
• The preponderant opinion was rural and reactionary and suspicious of some of the proposed social legislation.
• Industry is still a preponderantly male environment.