Sentence examples for preponderate from inspiring English sources

At an early stage their narratives were dramatized and gave rise to the Sanskrit theatre, in which epic mythic themes preponderate, and to the closely related dance, which survives in the now largely South Indian schools of bharata natyam (traditional dance) and the kathakali (narrative dance) of Kerala.

While states are bound, like animals, to be different, he considers a balanced "mixed" constitution the best it reflects the ideal of justice (dikē) and fair dealing, which gives every individual his due in a conservative social order in which citizens of the middle condition preponderate.

In recent years neighborhoodism has been growing in NY, particularly where brownstones rather than highrises preponderate.

Best Actor awards preponderate for men in their late thirties to mid-forties; for Best Actress, the swell is in the thirties — and yet "29 is the most common age to win Best Actress".

Raumland makes some of its Sekte from the same three grape varieties that preponderate in Champagne – pinot noir, pinot meunier and chardonnay.

This is being resisted, on the arguable grounds that list MSPs should not be allowed to preponderate over constituency members, but also, less altruistically, because it will lead to a severe outbreak of turf wars among those scrabbling for seats.

Best Actor awards preponderate for men in their late thirties to mid-forties; for Best Actress, the swell is in the thirties and yet "29 is the most common age to win Best Actress".

This is a classic combination native to anyplace in the tropics where rum and coconuts preponderate (in the Bahamas, owing to the British influence, gin is used instead), and tends to be what the locals are drinking while the tourists are bloating from the coconut cream.

Hence if a further stationary minimum were now added to it, that could not be enough to halt its motion, being in a minority of 1 to the original 3, which, taken as a whole, have been assumed to be moving, and therefore preponderate.

Youth largely preponderates, and the whole place seems imbued with the spirit of good fellowship and good sport.

My instinct is to believe Clarissa when she says that she likes Lovelace "better perhaps than I ought to like him," given "all his preponderating faults," but that she would happily, and "without a throb," as she puts it to Anna, give him up in order to be reconciled with her parents and her uncles.