Preponderance

To decide means to succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

The by-products of living things also play an important part in creating sandy beaches. Bermuda's preponderance of pleasantly pink beaches results from the perpetual decay of single-celled, shelled organisms called foraminifera.

In legal terms, the "preponderance of evidence" is a lower standard of proof than "clear and convincing evidence".

[S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements.

Is there a preponderance of female protagonists in commercial fiction, and if so, what does it mean?

Subtle, institutional discrimination was evident in the preponderance of blacks and underprivileged whites fighting the war.

In a few weeks he [William III of England] had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.

But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and unpleasure are more common in dreams than pleasure: for instance, Scholz (1893, 57), Volkelt (1875, 80), and others. Indeed two ladies, Florence Hallam and Sarah Weed (1896, 499), have actually given statistical expression, based on a study of their own dreams, to the preponderance of unpleasure in dreaming.