Sentence examples for world's predominant from inspiring English sources

For thirty years in the early 1600s, the Netherlands was arguably the world's predominant colonial power.

In recent decades, global trade, sophisticated marketing, artificial insemination and the demands of agricultural economics have transformed the Holstein into the world's predominant dairy breed.

"The United States would be mistaken to take for granted the dollar's place as the world's predominant reserve currency," the World Bank president, Robert B. Zoellick, said in a speech at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins.

The notion of federalism is generally disliked, at least by the Arab world's predominant Sunni majority, as an old imperial device to divide and rule and undermine the umma, the community of Muslim nations particularly, of late, in Iraq.

In the end, the Bretton Woods agreement established the American dollar as the world's predominant currency, pegged to gold and with other currencies fixed against it — a system that endured until the 1970s, when President Richard M. Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard and floating exchange rates soon prevailed.

Further savings will make LNG ever more attractive despite the large up-front costs that have so far deterred all but the biggest oil companies.Qatar's government is pushing to become the world's predominant LNG supplier by giving foreign investors a friendly welcome.

Herbal medicine was the predominant form of health care for the world's population before the advent of modern medicine and still is the predominant form of health care in many underserved populations.

Coniferous species are predominant; Russia produces about one-fifth of the world's softwood.

Most of the world's major religions have positions regarding EOL treatments [ 9] and most countries have a predominant religion.

Co-operation with the US navy, the predominant maritime force in the region, has been more limited, although China will take part next year in the US-organised multinational Rim of the Pacific exercises, the world's largest maritime exercise.

She "rode out" with suitors, and, at, fifteen, after a trip to Boston, declared to a classmate, "The world holds a predominant place in my affections".