predominate

In children, coins predominate and are nearly always arrested at the level of the upper end of the sternum; in adults, dentures are the commonest foreign bodies, and may be impacted anywhere.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

In this hopeless climate sectional politics will start to predominate which is immensely to Browns advantage.

The Conservative Conference Is Irrelevant Newmania 2008

Of course, as in all large communities of vigorous vitality, there will be mutually antagonist parties in this body but it is hardly to be doubted that with the growth and acclimatization of the Catholic Church in America that party will eventually predominate which is most in sympathy with the ruling ideas of the country and the age.

A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

Of course, as in all large communities of vigorous vitality, there will be mutually antagonist parties in this body; but it is hardly to be doubted that with the growth and acclimatization of the Catholic Church in America that party will eventually predominate which is most in sympathy with the ruling ideas of the country and the age.

A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868

As to Jay's question about areas in which conservatives "predominate," I'd offer the small

Anchor Rising 2009

"predominate" over any individual issues, and for which a class action is "superior" to other methods of adjudication.

Law.com - Newswire 2010

We expect to see Latinos grow as a proportion of the evangelical population, but not to predominate within evangelicalism as they likely will within Catholicism.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Three years later, the commission reported, friendly relations exist between the Sicilians, who predominate on the Near North Side and their Negro neighbors.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

While there are notable exceptions, the most highly religious Americans are likely to be Republicans; Democrats predominate among those who are least religious.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Two reasons predominate my thinking on this: (1) the Deming effect, which says in a nutshell, if you want to make a better car, ask the guy on the assembly line how to do it, and (2) if the ground level workers have not bought off on the plan, the plan has no chance of success.

Christopher Scott: Reforming Education Reform -- Teaching in the Broken System Christopher Scott 2010