"One hypothesis is that there is so much more to read now and more kinds of 'important' work that if we believe that style is influenced by what one reads, then it is less likely that people generally devote the preponderance of their reading to the older 'classics'," said Rockmore.
Simultaneously, the preponderance of certain outsize (read: rich) voices hell-bent on keeping the city in its post-WWII straightjacket, hints at an old way of life not willing to go quietly.
There was a slight male preponderance of the study population.
Johnson veers off on some ill-advised tangents, including a discussion of the race-IQ "theories" of Charles Murray (in order to explain the preponderance of Jewish grandmasters), and a peculiar reading of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the spaceship computer HAL is supposed to represent the Soviet Union.
Again, the preponderance of high copy repeats in O. australiensis is inferred from the distribution pattern of individual reads as more number of sequences are clustered in the 70 100% repetitive range in O. australiensis (~73% of the total reads), higher than O. brachyantha (~27% of the total reads).
"Defendants failed to satisfy their burden of proving by a preponderance of evidence that consumption of coffee confers a benefit to human health," the judgment read.
They formerly had to show simple negligence by a preponderance of the evidence.
Mr. Marsalis and Mr. Gibson dismiss any notion of a racial slant, and others say that almost any fair reading of the giants of jazz would have a preponderance of blacks.
36 A study of the Fasti shows the preponderance of aristocrats in high office.
This was -13.6 (95% CI -4.4, -22.8), indicating that the second reading had higher scores on average for the global measure, with the preponderance of differences occurring on films with higher global scores.
Despite the preponderance of students not fluent in English, half of those who took state standardized tests last year were at grade level in reading.
