In the last years of his life the mysticism, almost always latent in the mind of a Bohemian, obtained preponderating influence on the views of Stitny.
Like whatever is the most effectively rich and great in society, these classes became the seat of all the active politics; and the preponderating weight to decide on them.
The lists of totems gathered either in Australia or in America do not show that any special species of animal has played a preponderating role.
In the first, economic activity is the preponderating one, and it is generally of a very mediocre intensity.
But attributing to society this preponderatingrole in the genesis of our nature is not denying this creation; for society has a creative power which no other observable being can equal.
I At the basis of nearly all the Australian tribes we find a group which holds a preponderating place in the collective life: this is the clan.
Owing to the preponderating place thus assigned to this principle in the Siouan pantheon, it is sometimes regarded as a sort of sovereign god, or a Jupiter or Jahveh, and travellers have frequently translated wakan by "great spirit.
Thus is explained the preponderating role of the cult in all religions, whichever they may be.
It is because they are the pre-eminent concepts, which have a preponderatingpart in our knowledge.
For a long time the two primitive mesoblast cells retain their preponderating size[109].
This stage corresponds with the division into two, but though the nucleus divides, the preponderatingamount of yolk prevents the egg from segmenting at the same time.
All the authority was intrusted to a council of regency of which the Duke of Orleans was to be the head, but without preponderating voice and without power to supersede any of the members, all designated in advance by Louis XIV.
The commons of England allied themselves with a portion of the English feudal aristocracy, formed with it the preponderating house in the British government, and thus played, full early, a powerful part in the history of their country.
No sooner had they reached it, than the attack began in real earnest, and with a preponderatingforce in that direction.
Now, as air is so notably manifested in Jack's conformation, he is, nolens volens, produced in conformity with his preponderating element.
William himself acquired by purchase the marquisate of Flushing and thus was able to exercise a preponderating influence in the Provincial Estates, all of whose members were required to be Calvinists and supporters of the rebel cause.
Indeed the secret of the Duke's character lay in the preponderating influence his emotions possessed over every action of his life.
The influence of such men on local legislation, in which they [253] had a preponderating share, either as actual proprietors or as the attorneys of absentees, was not in the direction of refinement or liberality.
Only when the assailing forces are vastly preponderating would it be otherwise than a fatal error to act upon the center and the two extremities at the same time.
The Punic wars between Carthage and Rome, now the preponderating power in Italy, were the most celebrated in the maritime annals of antiquity.
The third family, the Amphilonchida, is distinguished by the preponderating development of only two opposite equatorial spines, which are much larger (and often also of another form) than the eighteen other spines.
Acanthophracta# by the preponderating development of six stout radial spines, which are much larger than the fourteen others.
The preponderating interest of the second section, or East, is manufactures, and is represented by the Republican Party, who demands protection.
The preponderating interest of the third section, or South, is agriculture, and is represented by the Democratic Party, who demands free trade.
Thus the preponderating interest in one section is the mining of silver, and this interest is represented by the Populist Party, who demands the coinage of more Silver.
There are three political parties in the field, each with the preponderating interest of some section in charge, which it is bound to see through regardless of the interests of the other two.
However much King Ferrante wished to agree with Piero de’ Medici, and whatever the Republic might effect through her financial connections, she was yet too weak in military matters to exercise preponderating influence.
As a natural result of this state of things the petty Republic became a first-class power, wielding everywhere, and over Italy in particular, a preponderating influence.
Even including all of them, the sovereign would not be the preponderating coin as far as number is concerned.
Nor are there any circumstances in this instance calculated to modify its tendency, except such as give it vastly preponderating force and direction.
We observe throughout that, in by far the preponderatingnumber of instances, where Matthew differs from the order of Mark, Luke and Mark agree, and where Luke differs from the order of Mark, Matthew and Mark agree.
The passage is one that belongs to the triple synopsis, and the form in which it appears in Hegesippus shows a preponderating resemblance to the version of St. Matthew.
It is to these preponderating drifts that reference is made in the foregoing division, as specially marking periods.
Blake, in the last century, is an instance of preponderating soul, embarrassed, at a loss, in an era of preponderating mind.
Malta will be restored to the Order; and if the King of England should consider it conformable to his interests as a preponderating naval power to destroy the fortifications, that clause will be admitted.
The First Consul was extremely indignant, having counted on the threat of a war in Portugal to exercise a preponderating influence in the negotiations in London.
Since his vote of the 20th January, and until the 9th Thermidor, he remained in voluntary obscurity; mingling since then in all great theoretical discussions, he had exercised a preponderating influence in recent events.
The preponderating tendencies to evil, which necessitate the constant education of good impulses, while the bad grow of themselves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preponderating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
