The parents' concerns for safety will predominate over the children's desire for fun. From LearnThat.org.
As to Jay's question about areas in which conservatives "predominate," I'd offer the small. From Wordnik.com. [Anchor Rising] Reference
"predominate" over any individual issues, and for which a class action is "superior" to other methods of adjudication. From Wordnik.com. [Law.com - Newswire]
Subsistence farming and cattle raising predominate. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Rosevear gulls chiefly predominate, and at Rosevean the cormorants. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Fairy stories or tales with a highly imaginative basis predominate. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Paradise; if the bad predominate, they will go into the fire, unless. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
One or more of the food-stuffs sometimes predominate in a single food. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
Welsh and English birth or extraction predominate, with a few Swedes and. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Negroid peoples predominate, but there are many pastoral Fula and Arabs. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Around Santiago, clay and sand predominate, and the soil can not be highly praised. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Kirghiz, in territories and work places where Russian-speaking citizens predominate. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Let fruit and vegetables predominate in your meals, but do not avoid meats entirely. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
At every phase of the revolution he is there to lead, or control, or predominate over it. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
In Northwest Washington, where white voters predominate, Fenty won 76 percent of the vote. From Wordnik.com. [Ravitch: Why Fenty, Rhee really lost] Reference
The love songs that predominate, as with Oberst they usually do, are long on social context. From Wordnik.com. [Conor Oberst: When Love Turns Sour] Reference
Wines: French still predominate, but the list is inching toward more Italian and Spanish wines. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Life] Reference
Sabah: English, Malay, numerous tribal dialects, Chinese (Mandarin and Hakka dialects predominate). From Wordnik.com. [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference
Negroes are smart, as a rule, a characteristic spirit seems to predominate in them when very small. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
It is, above all, hatred of him which is to predominate in the cries, for that is the essential thing. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We are aware that some people feel that digital materials will predominate in libraries of the future. From Wordnik.com. [From the Print Media to the Internet] Reference
The deeper and darker passions predominate; love is swallowed up in hate and happiness drowned in grief. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Hardy perennial flowers should predominate, with enough annuals to fill up the spaces and hide the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
It could be because in the chi-chi neighborhoods in which such stores predominate, coupon-clipping is déclassé. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of Good Taste] Reference
Thus when one kind of manure is applied, grasses of one kind tend to predominate and crowd out grasses of another. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Not surprisingly, there is a sameness to the winning favorites; guitars and saxes backed by synthesizers predominate. From Wordnik.com. [Jazz For Drive Time] Reference
There may be others who patronize these delightfully situated riverside inns, but the former predominate in the season. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Of these the salts of soda predominate, and the chloride -- that is, common salt -- is usually in excess of all the others. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
There were also many young army officers, always welcome guests at these affairs, in which young ladies were apt to predominate. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
They were planted to most of the deciduous trees with which we of California are familiar, although prunes seemed to predominate. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
The players divide themselves into ladies and gentlemen, if the ladies predominate they must personate gentlemen, and vice versa. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
The county just below you forms the dividing line between the sections of country in which the free and slave parties predominate. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
One is, that lime seems to have a striking effect in improving the quality of pastures by inducing the finer grasses to predominate. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Care must be taken in putting the vegetables together not to let any one predominate, turnip especially, as it makes a sauce very bitter. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age Cook Book] Reference
Two schools of reformist thinking predominate: raise the standards of migrant schools, or eliminate the financial burden of public schools. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Baird Gewirtz: China's Migrant Workers and Illegal Immigration] Reference
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