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• v  weigh more heavily
• s  having superior power and influence

• In a country such as Italy, where the chamber was normally composed of perhaps a dozen parties, none greatly preponderating, this law gave to the leading party (Fascismo .
• I have opportunities to talk with a great many military men, Belgian, English, French and they all unite on this: if America can send over preponderating squadrons of aircraft, the .
• The Geneva or International Red Cross is reputed to be jealous of the preponderating influence played by the American Red Cross in the League of Red Cross Societiesan .

• preponderate
• outweigh
• overbalance
• outbalance
• overriding
• paramount
• predominant
• predominate
• preponderant

Quotes

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• James Burnham in New York Times
  In his book "Congress and the American Tradition," the conservative thinker James Burnham argued that the Founders had envisioned a government in which "the preponderating share of power was held and exercised by the legislature,"...