For most of the time since 1997, the first interpretation has appeared to predominate.

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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.

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However, east-west winds appear to predominate.

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Intra market monopolies will predominate to detriment of the traveler.

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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.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

In Sinjar, west of Mosul, some Yazidis, who predominate there, say the Kurds want to force them to vote for the Kurdish list.

ECONOMIST: Iraq

"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.

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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.

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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.

ECONOMIST: Taxation and class war