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Statistics from Global Inequality, a 2016 book by the development economist Branko Milanović, indicate that in relative terms the greatest benefits of globalisation have accrued to a rising “emerging middle class”, based preponderantly in China.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2017

More relevant to the Brownsville lawsuit, however, is that American jurisprudence is preponderantly acquiescent to the duties of the chief executive.

From Newsweek

Stiffly formal and preponderantly religious, they showed demure madonnas suckling solemn-faced infants, martyrs suffering horrible tortures with quiet dignity, earnest, humorless burghers and princes and their doll-faced wives.

From Time Magazine Archive

President Elmer Brown reached a compromise preponderantly pro-union: no bogus on 88, bogus on 136.

From Time Magazine Archive

Realism, however, has its rights in the forward sweep of the specifically human side of life with all its diversions, its constraints, and its preponderantly natural character.

From An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by Jones, W. Tudor (William Tudor)