The style owes its name to the predominant motif found on such vases: friezes of goats.

In a kantha with a predominant central motif the centre was done first, followed by corner designs and the other details.

Most of the designs seen today are floral, with the kairy (i.e. the paisley) as the predominant motif.

Red, white and blue was the predominant motif at most dealerships.

In the early period the death's head was the predominant motif used in churchyard-based cemeteries, in which by no means every individual received a grave marker.

In the late 1950's they are in Rhodesia, where racism and imperialism - two predominant motifs of the book - first make themselves felt.

Today the predominant motif was insolence.

Because the film's predominant motif is that of wounded individuals re-inventing themselves as wily villains, its most memorable episodes are early ones explaining each main character's transformation.

The predominant motif of the hundreds of commercials that are occasionally interrupted by NBC's coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics is, naturally enough, sports.

The morning star was their predominant motif, which they translated into hundreds of variations that were vividly colored and optically intriguing.