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The union exerts a dominant influence on the conservative party.
The union has a dominant influence on the conservative party.
Efficiency is the dominant idea in business.
In some species of animals, the female is dominant over the male.
Dominant or submissive - which part do you want to play?
She has a dominant personality.
Less than one percent of the population is truly ambidextrous, that is, they have no dominant hand.
If you want to become ambidextrous, try brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand. It'll be hard at first, but you'll get used to it in no time.
Movie subtitles
Before long, Western civilization became the world's dominant civilization.
One of the dominant organisms was what we call a tube worm and these were 6, 8 feet tall, and they had human-like blood.
Genetically you have very dominant characteristics.
In Norman's case, the battle is over, and the dominant personality has won.
In every relationship between human beings, one is dominant and one is subservient.
But I think that in that sequence, although Williams has the dominant part and position, it's Laughton you watch because of his extraordinary sense of humility and shame, underlying which is his wonderful sense of humanity and humour.
Now it looks like they're becoming dominant.
Not all the dominant species in the universe look like humans.
The dominant personality is responsible for the suppression of the heterogeneous elements which the conglomerate comprises.
As Stringfellow notes in defining the nature of dominance, the will of the newly formed conglomerate must necessarily be a function of the will of the dominant personality.
Only after an indefinite period of symbiotic telepathic cohesion can the dominant personality abdicate its agglutinative role and encourage the emergence of a truly synthetic conglomerate personality.
Stringfellow's behaviour as parapsychologist suggests that perhaps his foremost post-operative research objective was to intuit which among his Category-A subjects was the one most capable of assuming the role of psychic dominant.
You know, Stuart, for a so-called member of the dominant sex, you are being remarkable feeble!
One dominant life form, a large and savage reptile.
A mature, responsible, dominant man.
Which sense is the dominant one?
The first and perhaps the dominant structure will be a magnificent concert hall.
The ent. the ant To become the dominant.
We, the dominant race, must watch out, or these other races will take control.
The dominant appeal of the matter being to arouse a prurient interest, which is a morbid or shameful interest in nudity or sex or excretion, which goes beyond the limits of such matters.
To make sex obscene, it is necessary that the portrayal of it must be done in such a way that its dominant tendency is to corrupt the average adult, by creating a clear and present danger of antisocial behaviour.
So dominant.
Without controlled creatures, Zontar's dominant race, slowly withered away.
Scientists have been amazed at the similarity between these chaps and our own dominant life form.
In all its particular forms, information or propaganda, advertising or direct consumption of entertainment, the spectacle constitutes. the present model of socially dominant life.
It is then that political economy comes. to constitute the dominant science and the science of domination.
We foresee a time when they will have destroyed all other life forms and become the dominant creature in the universe.
They can survive only by becoming the dominant species.
It needs an operator, but the mental feedback is so intense that the swinish instinct has become dominant.
As a result, the dominant organisms on the planet today.
News and current affairs
First, Europe and South America are more dominant than four years ago and remain the unchallenged great powers of international soccer.
Indeed, under the LDP-led one-party-dominant system, this extra-constitutional mechanism became an integral part of Japan's government polity.
Britain was never as dominant as the US is today.
But most Serbs were beginning to believe that the ballot and not the gun was becoming the dominant tool of politics.
They are reluctant members of the Bretton Woods institutions, which are dominated by countries that are no longer dominant.
Wyatt's reluctance to join in the exploitation of great apes is understandable, given that the film itself tells the story of apes rising up in response to oppression from dominant humans.
The people who ran big business were often unscrupulous, and in some cases used their dominant market position to drive out their competitors - enabling the surviving firms subsequently to restrict supply and raise prices.
Its thinking goes beyond the dominant, unilateral paradigm of its predecessor and includes a defense of international law.
The Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, whose position seems similar to that of the million Arabs who are Israeli citizens, eventually revolted against the dominant Protestants, with decades of violence resulting.
While this is certainly not the dominant approach toward FDI, we need to be vigilant that it does not become so.
IBM built up a massively dominant position because it leased a carefully custom-designed and individualized package.
Of course, Microsoft ran into its own legal troubles when it took over IBM's former dominant position, waging long drawn-out court cases on both sides of the Atlantic.
Indeed, it has become a dominant theme of Bush's second term.
Yet they are hardly Swedish characteristics, or for that matter are they dominant in Finland and Norway (two countries that experienced severe financial turbulence in 1992-1993).
It is already the dominant source of power generation in some very important energy-consuming nations.
As a result, the army will be dominant in decision making on important issues like nuclear negotiations.
The world has moved from the Cold War to the Global Information Age, but the dominant foreign policy paradigms have not kept pace.
The withdrawal by all of these invading armies to the recognized international boundaries demonstrated that nationalist forces were dominant in the region, not communist solidarity.
Yet their pursuit of a dominant position on the strategic chokepoints in the Indian Ocean undermines these goals by raising tensions not only with India, but with Asia's other powers and the US.
The region's dominant trading partner devalued, and the US dollar appreciated considerably.
If elected, she would be South Korea's first woman president, and, for her rivals, her dominant position in the race is an uncomfortable but unassailable fact.
Without Britain, the EU becomes a Franco-German enterprise, with Germany very much the dominant partner, and all the smaller member states squeezed between the two.
Electorates in constituencies where Labour is usually dominant are smaller, and district boundaries take insufficient account of population shifts.