There were more female students in both samples but the preponderance of women was considerably more pronounced in the Netherlands, where about 70% of the participants (and eligible students) were women.
But to attend the Edinburgh festival is to know that comedy is still a man's world, both in the preponderance of male comics and in many of the jokes being told.
Mr. Rapoport was encouraged both by the preponderance of progressive ballot measures and the shifting control in statehouses in some key states, like New York, where Democrats captured the State Senate, the only wing of the government they lacked, and North Carolina, where Republicans lost their supermajority.
In both cases, the preponderance of short links, which leads to spatial clustering, ensured that our networks were more modular than the comparable network wired uniformly at random.
Folks in the highest places were very interested in claims along the lines Libi was peddling, even though they went against both logic and the preponderance of intelligence gathered to that point about possible collaboration between two enemies of the U.S. that were fundamentally at odds with each other.
In an expression of attitudes that could affect both parties in November, the preponderance of Democratic and Republican voters in primaries today said their party platforms should favor keeping abortion legal or take no stand on the issue.
Jeb Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, in 1988, and his brother George W. Bush in 2000, were both early frontrunners with the preponderance of the GOP grand poobahs backing them.
Nader is more responsible than George W. Bush, whose alibi complements Gore's: by attracting fewer votes, both nationally and (according to the preponderance of scientific opinion) in Florida, Bush absolved himself of guilt for his own elevation.
This Aristotle calls the middling regime: a political, because sociological, mean between oligarchy and democracy, in which the middle classes hold the preponderance of both wealth distribution and political power—hence it is attainable through reform of either an oligarchy or a democracy, the most prevalent constitutions among the Greeks.
