Though now long forgotten, the Seals were, for 55 years, the predominant force of West Coast baseball, during an era when the established Major Leagues sprawled only east of the Mississippi, and games weren't broadcast on television.
Private practitioners were responsible for 70% of outpatient consultations and will be the predominant force of primary care providers if more are switched to family doctors as supposed by recent health care reform [ 36, 37].
But for Booker, the predominant force is music – whether it is black or white, punk or country blues, and a musician's right to mingle them all together if she or he sees fit.
Instead, voter fatigue is the predominant force, the unspoken backdrop to a ballot that many are quick to say they never wanted.
Yelp, the predominant force in the social yellow pages space, has just announced their move into Germany.
"Silicon Valley has more startups and more money," Judith Messina points out in Ad Age, "but New York City is the predominant force in ad tech".
The country's isolationists, a predominant force in the Republican party, argued that the United States was in no danger and must focus only on its own defense.
