preponderant
ਵੱਡਾ
definition
adjective
the preponderant influence of the US within the alliance
predominant in influence, number, or importance.
example
This is a reflection of the 'preponderant' US role in the drafting of this document.
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.
But it also has a special obligation to justify its actions by principles that transcend the assertions of 'preponderant' power.
Any doubts about the seminal role of oil in determining a modern industrial nation's wealth can be laid to rest by reflecting on the 'preponderant' weight of oil in the world's economy.
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.
As a 'preponderant' power, it can provide an important public good by acting as a mediator.
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.
Unions exercise a 'preponderant' influence only because, in the Eighties, the country abandoned socialist political programmes under a socialist president.
In other words, it takes into account the 'preponderant' aspect of a specific professional activity: whether it is weighted more heavily toward intellectual elaboration or toward muscularnervous effort.
The 'preponderant' influence of these players speaks to something else about the nature of football, a characteristic that lends the game a persistently subversive, rebellious quality.
To Mead, the majority population bore 'preponderant' responsibility for the landscape's condition.
Owing to its 'preponderant' tribal population and geographical variation, this process in Orissa was different from the Indo-Gangetic model.
‘It would be easy to see that this 'preponderant' influence which would accrue to a very large unit could be abused, and would in any case be resented by all the other constituent units.’
The questions are here posed: is the continuance of Indian hunger and poverty a consequence of the smallness of the 'preponderant' majority of the nation's farms?
The 'preponderant' opinion was rural and reactionary and suspicious of some of the proposed social legislation.
What is more, the Church enjoyed a 'preponderant' influence in the daily lives of Italians, literally from the cradle to the grave.
Howard's use of paint seems eminently sensuous, as do her colors, which in this show were 'preponderantly' red-hued.
When the Third Duma met in late 1907 it had, not surprisingly, a 'preponderantly' right-wing complexion.
The English naval forces comprised 34 royal warships and some 170 privately owned ships, 'preponderantly' drawn from East Anglia and Kent.
He finds that the National Science Foundation's research awards go 'preponderantly' to fifteen universities.
Aluminum for packaging is 'preponderantly' in the form of sheet or foil.
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