One faction has, another sought to have, a preponderant share of power: but these struggles never took the shape, even in pretence, of differences that moved through the conflict of principles.
The Notion of Displacement I have shown in 'Science and Hypothesis' the preponderant rôle played by the movements of our body in the genesis of the notion of space.
When you have preponderant strength, impose your view; force the other man to your will; not because it is right, but because you are able to do so.
Its analysis and demonstration of the preponderant power of the north, and its retrospection over the progressive stages by which the former equilibrium of the sections had been destroyed, are as clear-sighted as its prediction.
How the force of the preponderant population of the north pressed upon the south during the war, and at last crushed her down!
It would not be possible, to enforce a decision against nations having a preponderance of military power, nor even against a group with a large, though not the preponderant share of military and economic resources.
As an eminent author says: "If we give the preponderant attention to the providences which appertain to the body, there is danger of becoming deistical and materialistic in our views.
Abduction is only possible here where preponderant emphasis is placed on the leadership of the Spirit without careful, diligent adhesion to the Word.
There are other States where their votes will be like the last preponderant weight in the nicely balanced scales.
Conducive as each of these policies is to national safety and peace amid international conflagration, neither the one nor the other can be sustained without the creation and maintenance of a preponderant navy.
Instead of building up a {144} mimetic likeness bit by bit it will merely have conserved and rendered numerically preponderant a likeness which had turned up quite independently.
He would have seen that "the positive explanation of phenomena has played in every period a preponderant role, though latent, in the march of the human mind.
Condorcet, like all his circle, ignored the preponderant part which institutions have played in social development.
The preponderant influence of Jansenism only began to wane during the last twenty years of the seventeenth century, and till then it seems to have been successful in counteracting the diffusion of the Cartesian ideas.
Nevertheless, at the last general election the American people cast a decisively preponderant vote in favor of the Roosevelt-Taft programme; and in so doing they showed their customary common sense.
France was unable to retain the preponderant position which she had earned during the early years of the reign of Louis XIV; and this mistake of the Bourbon monarchy was the cause of its eventual downfall.
These views are supported by the preponderant weight of authority in this country.
Edward had now won an ascendency over his father which he never let slip, and his voice had for the future a preponderant share in the royal council.
When Godwine died suddenly at a great feast at Winchester,[7] his son Harold succeeded both to his earldom of Wessex and to his preponderant power in England.
The nervous mass is in this sense not preponderant over the muscular and bony mass.
In the oxydizing part of the vascular system the formation of fibres must be preponderant over that of cells, and thus at the root of the lungs.
We shall again meet with this consideration relatively to the integral calculus, where it acquires a preponderant importance.
Nothing that we know of the majority of persons in any society would lead us to conclude that their moral feelings taken alone form so preponderant an element of their happiness.
The English Premier being appointed by the selection, and being removable at the pleasure, of the preponderant Legislative Assembly, is sure to be able to rely on that Assembly.
The preponderant probability is that on a great occasion the Premier and Parliament will really be wiser than the king.
The decisive preponderant element of great land forces has ever been the infantry, which, it is needless to say, is also the slowest.
Under Edward II the old ambition of the barons to take a preponderant part in the government reappeared once more with the greatest violence.
The effort to overthrow Mary's throne had strengthened it: for the second time she had rallied around it the preponderant majority of the nation.
