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  • William C. Moore 's 1921 book "Wall Street: Its Mysteries Revealed, Its Secrets Exposed" defined "bear market" only as "one in which selling preponderates and prices decline."

    If It Looks Like a Bear ... Jason Zweig 2011

  • The one in favor of the Constitution preponderates at present—but a small matter cast into the opposite scale may make it the heaviest.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • The one in favor of the Constitution preponderates at present—but a small matter cast into the opposite scale may make it the heaviest.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • The one in favor of the Constitution preponderates at present—but a small matter cast into the opposite scale may make it the heaviest.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • But he soon, however, observed an excess of sadness upon her countenance, far deeper than what he could attribute to the thoughts he had first suggested, and wholly different from an agitation in which though fear bears a part, hope preponderates.

    Camilla 2008

  • When, on account of there being many rulers, dissensions arise in such a government, it often happens that the power of one preponderates and he then usurps the government of the multitude for himself.

    The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

  • But in the main, the good part preponderates, and people of infamous and blasted characters are never admitted.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • The military element preponderates in society; the convict and

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

  • The first two form the bases of the larger portion, and the dark skins, pronounced features, and more or less frizzly hair of the Papuans preponderates.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • At present the power of Mohammed Aly preponderates, and the Syrian hadjys display great humility.

    Travels in Arabia 2003

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