preponderant

• “Gertzman argues that moral reformers during this period were “correct to claim that the traffic in ‘pornography’ was vigorous in the 1920s and 1930s, and that Jews were preponderant as distributors of gallantiana erotic fiction, avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and the most flagitious materials.””

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “As an archipelagic state, Indonesia is understandably wary of China becoming the preponderant maritime power in the Asia Pacific.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Jakarta's Year of Leading Diplomatically

• “• From Genesis to Revelation, the preponderant biblical voice condemns the vast disparities of poverty and wealth that conservative policies cause and actively maintain.”

  The Huffington Post: Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.: Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and the Sins of Ideological Christianity

• “The preponderant bulk of the federal budget is in military spending, Social Security and interest on the national debt.”

  Think Progress » Axelrod Struggles To Explain Why Obama’s Spending Freeze Doesn’t Include Defense Funding

• “But this is the issue where either the United States will remain the preponderant presence in the Middle East, or we will be forced out by mullahs with nuclear weapons.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Failure by Committee

• “The government is becoming more and more preponderant in the economy in recent years, more than even 10 years ago.”

  Voice of America: Ethiopia Sells Cooking Oil, Sugar to Correct 'Market Failure'

• “And above all Fascism denies that class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society ….”

  Think Progress » Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda

• “Mr. Hochschild's failure to present the preponderant judgment at the time is a way of further stacking the deck.”

  The Wall Street Journal: War and Its Discontents

• “Secondly, a nation's greatest strength - preponderant military power - is in counterinsurgency its greatest weakness, especially when it engenders hubris and an unwillingness to change.”

  The Huffington Post: Neetu Mahil: Build a School; Then Build It Again

• “Only such an approach to institutionalized greed and corruption can allay fears that the leaders of another seemingly populist ideology will not simply take their preponderant cut.”

  The Huffington Post: David Vognar: Opening Peace and Justice Through Economic Transparency

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