What is more, the Church enjoyed a preponderant influence in the daily lives of Italians, literally from the cradle to the grave. |
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The preponderant opinion was rural and reactionary and suspicious of some of the proposed social legislation. |
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It should be noted, though, that the preponderant location of media in southwest Nigeria does not dovetail with ownership patterns. |
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This is a reflection of the preponderant US role in the drafting of this document. |
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To Mead, the majority population bore preponderant responsibility for the landscape's condition. |
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Dominance and codominance are preponderant but there is little competitive interaction. |
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Owing to its preponderant tribal population and geographical variation, this process in Orissa was different from the Indo-Gangetic model. |
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But it also has a special obligation to justify its actions by principles that transcend the assertions of preponderant power. |
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As a preponderant power, it can provide an important public good by acting as a mediator. |
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The purpose of the clause was to ensure that Solvay remained the preponderant supplier. |
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Unions exercise a preponderant influence only because, in the Eighties, the country abandoned socialist political programmes under a socialist president. |
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The nation, moreover, continues to enjoy the preponderant influence among national actors in determining what issues do and do not dominate the organization's agenda. |
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Initially, at least, the preponderant view was that any alternative to bipolarity was likely to be some variation on multipolarity, with all of its depressing implications. |
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In view of its preponderant military and economic power, the willingness of the nation to exercise its influence over others is less remarkable than its relative restraint. |
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They also indicate that in many instances the preponderant price constituted less than fifty percent of the total sales. |
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I think that the general, who has come before us today, will play a preponderant role in Canadian history. |
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In the case of a tie-vote, the chairman or vice-chairman in his absence has a preponderant vote. |
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In the case concerning us today it is clear that lobbying played a preponderant role. |
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They are preponderant in the commercial sector, as are the little children, whereas the older ones choose activity requiring physical strength. |
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These shareholders must become preponderant in the allocation of capital. |
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Secondly, there is the ECJ's consistent case-law according to which there should be a sole legal base which reflects the preponderant purpose or the centre of gravity of the legislation. |
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In these countries also, although the role of the state remained preponderant, market forces were increasingly relied upon to improve economic performance. |
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While climate change has always occurred naturally, the preponderant view of scientists worldwide is that the world is experiencing changes in both rate and magnitude of weather conditions and global climate change. |
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The weight given to the financial criteria is clearly preponderant. |
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The Board noted the need to point out the preponderant effect of nature on the water levels compared to Board's discretionary deviations and the need to adjust or live within the range of level variation. |
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Sopra Group assists its customers in upstream engineering phases to develop preponderant software systems and keep them in an operative condition throughout their service life. |
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Cardiff has a chequered linguistic history with Welsh, English, Latin, Norse and Norman French preponderant at different times. |
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He developed an obstreperous baritone... and he made himself rather preponderant, whether he happened to know the song or not. |
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For 30 years, GECI International has asserted itself as a specialist in high technology engineering, with a preponderant presence in the aircraft world. |
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