Sentence examples for preponderant power from inspiring English sources
In fact, the Federal Constitution, even in the present transitory phase, gives the Federal Government preponderant power.
Along the Aisne the preponderant power of the defense over the offense was reemphasized as the Germans repelled successive Allied attacks from the shelter of trenches.
Locke is expressing the concerns and interests of the landed and moneyed men by whose consent James's successor, William III, came to the throne, and his commonwealth is strictly conservative, limiting the franchise and the preponderant power to the propertied classes (and to men, of course).
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".
Should we be investing in defensive, balancing, or preponderant power?
The question remains, how much is enough: defensive, balancing, or preponderant power?
"American leaders have been lulled into believing that the Palestine issue is a thing of the past and that preponderant Israeli military power in the Occupied Territories has rendered Palestinians quiescent and complacent," he writes.
Even if a military clash does occur, it will be short, with China being quickly routed by the preponderant American force.
Hence, an isolated or preponderant RV impairment might underestimate CFI and consequently LVEF.
The azo pigments based on 3,3′-dichlorobenzidine appear preponderant (30), which might explain partially the consistency of PCB11 detection.
Stalin, however, consented readily to Churchill's provisional suggestion for zones of influence in southeastern Europe: the U.S.S.R. should be preponderant in Romania and in Bulgaria, the western powers in Greece, and western and Soviet influences should counterbalance one another evenly in Yugoslavia and in Hungary.
