What's the difference between overriding and preponderating?
Overriding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Override
Example Sentences:
(1) Because haptenated cells can induce immunity if injected subcutaneously or into cyclophosphamide-pretreated recipients (thereby avoiding the induction of suppressor cells), we suggest that the activation of contrasuppressor cells by antigen-antibody complexes overrides suppressive influences in the host, allowing immunity to become dominant.
(2) Although B12 supplementation results in a 10-fold repression of metE-lacZ expression, homocysteine addition to the growth medium overrides the B12-mediated repression.
(3) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(4) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
(5) For now, the overriding feeling is helplessness, tinged with shame for the last year of passivity.
(6) The negative feedback inhibition of physiological concentrations of IGF-I on GH, therefore, appears to override the potent stimulation of GH by these intracellular messengers.
(7) Glycosylation failed to completely override the transport block, but allowed some uncleaved hGH-DAF to pass through the secretory pathway and acquire endoglycosidase H resistance.
(8) Throughout, our correspondent establishes his overriding desire simply to be useful, even when he fears he might not be; to Charles Clarke, secretary of state for education – “If you can bear to receive a report on this year’s Education Summer School from someone with such old-fashioned views (!)
(9) Under some conditions, visual information can override auditory information to the extent that identification judgments of a visually influenced syllable can be as consistent as for an analogous audiovisually compatible syllable.
(10) A direction from the family court that an asylum seeker should have access to a child in Australia does not override the department’s obligation to remove the asylum seeker.
(11) These results demonstrate that ET-1 and possibly other vasoactive substances of endothelial origin, override the compensatory mechanism of normal pregnancy with respect to the blunted responsiveness to AII and VP.
(12) The overriding common features of these ailments are the gender of their sufferers and the behavioral symptoms they exhibit.
(13) It could be used: (1) to assure that only patients actually ingesting medication are used to evaluate new drugs, (2) to study the factors that influence compliance and strategies to improve compliance, (3) to prevent escalation to more toxic drugs or expensive diagnostic procedures when failure to respond is due to poor compliance, (4) to supervise compliance when society has an overriding interest in therapeutic success, and (5) to monitor the effects of air pollution.
(14) Possible explanations for this lack of effect include (1) interactions with NMDA receptor channels are pressure dependent; (2) other actions of these antagonists override their effects on the NMDA receptor channel.
(15) There is certainly no chance of the sort of "democratic override" that Pinto-Duschinsky himself favours.
(16) Now the vote is in, the overriding sense is of surprise and uncertainty.
(17) The diagnosis of overriding mitral valve should be suspected in any patient with significant conotruncal anomalies and underdeveloped left ventricle, especially the patient with double outlet right ventricle, and in the patient with endocardial cushion defect, hypoplasia of the left ventricle, and obstructive anomalies of the aortic arch.
(18) Filtering and randomization of stimulus timing may attenuate the effects of these overriding potentials.
(19) The difference in kinetics for reversal between these two treatments suggests that myo-inositol addition overrides a biochemical pathway while Ca2+ addition supplants a phosphoinositide-mediated rise in the cation that may be necessary for anaphase onset.
(20) A conclusion is offered that the quality of residential care is dependent on the interaction of variables rather than on the presence of any single overridingly powerful factor.
Preponderating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preponderate
Example Sentences:
(1) "If necessary we will promote and encourage new laws which require future WHO funding to be provided only if the organisation accepts that all reports must be supported by the preponderance of science."
(2) of complete tryptic digests of the IRBPs indicate that, although they have in common a similar preponderance of hydrophobic peptides, all three proteins differ extensively in their fine structure.
(3) Therefore, it is not necessary to postulate a preponderant extraerythropoietic source to explain the amount of fecal excretion.
(4) These findings suggest postsynaptic regulation abnormalities to be preponderant in this condition.
(5) Selective migration results in a relative preponderance of CD4 cells in the diffuse infiltrate and it is suggested that this is a mechanism likely to potentiate defensive reaction to Mycobacterium tuberculosis: any deficiency in selective migration may make immunological defences less effective and so contribute to the chronicity of the lesions of tuberculosis.
(6) The maximum manifestations were seen in the 21-40 years age group, with male preponderance.
(7) The treatment was almost only in those angiopathies successful, in which the fluorescein angiography showed a preponderance of the hyperpermeability over the obliterating process of retinal capillaries.
(8) A study of 222 pregnancies, with repeated spontaneous miscarriages confirms the clear preponderance of girls, among the non-premature and well-formed children born, and the efficiency of H.C.G.
(9) The patients were mostly middle-aged, and there was a female preponderence.
(10) It was found, contrary to expectation, that the prevalence was 2.96% and preponderant symptoms seemed to be worrisome, tense, irritable and depressive.
(11) In the first group, there was a slight male preponderance and 75% of the patients presented were under two years of age.
(12) A significant preponderance of males had their main interest in biological psychiatry, females in psychotherapy.
(13) Recurrent facial paralysis was encountered in 5.4% of patients and was characterized by male preponderance and a tendency to recur more frequently on the same side as the initial paralysis.
(14) Our results indicate that, if the mutant can be transposed equally well in the presence of the wild type, then it can be expected to be found in preponderance, whereas elements, such as retroviruses, where the transposing genome and its phenotypic expression are coupled, may be characterized by a low mutant frequency.
(15) The erythroleukemia with the preponderance of proerythroblasts had a worse prognosis because many of the individuals did not survive long enough to respond to the therapy initiated.
(16) Five amino acids are preponderant (serin, prolin, glycin, alanin and taurin).
(17) Unusual features of our series of patients were male preponderance (eight of nine patients), the low incidence of other developmental abnormalities, and, in the patients with the duodenal cysts, an age of 14 years or older at the time of onset of symptoms and diagnosis.
(18) In general, there was a male preponderance, with a male:female ratio of 2.2:1 and 7:1 for Saudis and non-Saudis, respectively.
(19) While the initial group of 122 arthroplasties was only slightly greater than one-third male, the preponderance of patellar fractures was in males (ten of 12).
(20) For the third component of complement, S allele is absolutely preponderant.