For most of the time since 1997, the first interpretation has appeared to predominate.
As Daniel Pipes observed in a recent issue of Commentary, we should heed the rejectionist rhetoric that continues to predominate in Palestinian Authority controlled areas.
They will be trying to work out whether, under Sir Menzies' leadership, a tax-raising or free market agenda is likely to predominate ... or if he moves the party to the Left or the Right.
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Yours is the one that will have to predominate of course, but the weight that I put on it, I urge you to at least evaluate as you begin to level your weight on the evidence that has been presented.
However, east-west winds appear to predominate.
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Where America broadly hopes to clamp down on Islamic extremists, impose some sort of order and find a way to get its soldiers home, Pakistan, by contrast, does not want to see a strong Afghan state particularly one where ethnic groups such as Tajiks, traditionally friendly to India, tend to predominate in positions of power.
Intra market monopolies will predominate to detriment of the traveler.
The Putinite centre is a dynamic constellation that seeks to ensure that all major competing policy orientations are given a degree of influence, but strives to guarantee that none can predominate.
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But even with a measure of success, it must know that the stories that will still predominate are more likely to be about imploding casualty departments and shoddy track maintenance than barely perceptible amelioration.
Secular-minded rebels still predominate, but jihadists with links to al-Qaeda are coming in.
In Sinjar, west of Mosul, some Yazidis, who predominate there, say the Kurds want to force them to vote for the Kurdish list.
The Iraqi Kurds' standard map tactfully omits to paint the Greater Kurdistan where their ethnic brethren predominate in neighbouring Turkey (14m of them), Iran (some 6m) and Syria (1m).
On only a few subjects do women's voices predominate: beauty contests, sex workers, and all to do with the home.
"The governing body is a hung parliament and it isn't able to take a view, as the interests of the Premier League, sadly, predominate at the FA, " he added.
The theatre's history is told in a lusciously produced volume in which pretty Follies girls predominate naturally enough, as this was showman Florenz Ziegfeld's temple from 1913 to 1927.
Public spending should certainly take the brunt: there is plenty of scope to slim inefficient Leviathan, and studies of past deficit-cutting programmes suggest they work best when cuts predominate.
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