The phrase "as the preponderant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is dominant or has greater weight or influence in a particular context.
Example: "In the debate, her arguments were as the preponderant force, swaying the opinions of many attendees."
Alternatives: "as the dominant" or "as the prevailing".
Signaling his agreement, Friedberg writes: "If we permit an illiberal China to displace us as the preponderant player in this most vital region, we will face grave dangers to our interests and our values throughout the world".
Aaron Friedberg, an American scholar, argues in a new book ("A Contest for Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia") that China's rulers want to constrict America's military and diplomatic clout in the Western Pacific, "pushing it back and ultimately displacing it as the preponderant power in East Asia".
With the more centrist Hillary Clinton as the preponderant front-runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination, there was an aperture on the left for an unreconstructed progressive candidate.
Moreover, the motif patterns that were reported as the preponderant ones were congruent with our observations.
Even semi-aquatic species such as E. polystachya, whose life cycle is associated with the aquatic phase of the hydrological cycle and has vegetative propagation as the preponderant mechanism of reproduction (Piedade et al., 1991), produce seeds in abundance.
However, the strong temporal relationship of serum concentrations to hemodilution, the rapidity of the drop together with a subsequent rise with fluid clearance and the magnitude of the drop being explained by the proportional rise in circulating volume argue in favour of a dilution effect as the preponderant cause.
As Na is the preponderant solute in the extracellular fluid, PNa also serves as the prime determinant of serum tonicity.
Since no influence of the LPL nature on PL properties of the NPs dispersed in them was observed (see Figure 2 and corresponding discussion above), the FRET mechanism appears as the most preponderant.
When Hawks was the preponderant author, as in his adventure movies, all the plots were the same.
As infant baptism gradually became the preponderant practice, verbal instruction around baptism fell out of use, although some of the old ceremonies of the catechumenate continued to be administered in compressed form.
Meanwhile, the internal situation had worsened, as a result of resentment over the preponderant influence of the nominees of the powerful Duke of Burgundy in the king's council.
