Sentence examples for preponderance it from inspiring English sources

Tomorrow's battles will, as far as anyone can guess, be for control of land, not the sea or the sky; as long as America's forces retain their huge preponderance, it is hard to imagine western strength being tested in aerial battles or naval clashes in mid-ocean.

The authority of the state "encompasses only a certain portion … of the collective power of the populace" and even when state power exerts a certain preponderance it can do so only "through the cooperation of psychological impulses" (Dilthey 1989, 132).

I have written about violent rhetoric before, and I'm convinced that it's poisonous to our politics, that the preponderance of it comes from the right, and that it has the potential to manifest in massacres like the one in Tucson.

So the first thing that strikes you about the Pompidou Centre's two-part exhibition, Mondrian/De Stijl, is the preponderance in it of trees.

These findings are concordant with previous studies that have shown a male preponderance and it is generally associated with a more severe form of the disease in men, and a younger age of onset [ 1, 3, 4, 6].

In Pixar's history there've been some times when it hasn't [worked out], and we've had to make changes, but the preponderance of times it's paid off makes it worthwhile".

Thought to be a definitive work on the subject, Knot no 1119, page 204 Eight turns is the "preponderance of authority" (It is quite hard to get it perfect but don't worry if you don't get it perfect).

Protestantism is everywhere on the march, bringing "wealth, education and political preponderance" along with it.

Reading these reports, one is stuck by the preponderance of filth: it is literally everywhere.

The top of the grid seemed like it had a preponderance of common letters, yet it got progressively more Scrabbly as I solved southward.

Those who run RdV (short for Rendezvous) insist that it attracts a preponderance of international customers who give it a European atmosphere.