"To suggest that somehow the U.S. in the second part of the 20th century has not played a preponderant role is to simplify and distort."

They tend to attract lightnings, so it played a preponderant role in the ceremonies to attract the rain and the fire in all Europe.

NATO is still the only organization that gives the U.S. a preponderant role in Europe, and it remains critical to preserving stability and balance there.

The Church, generally allied with the stronger classes, also had a preponderant role where the military organization was strongest.

As of the 17th century, the tanbur had already taken its present form and structure and assumed the preponderant role it still holds in Classical Turkish Music performance.

Then, having been named in this group of experts, Diocles there takes a preponderant role, so well that the laws created carry his name.

Although Piłsudski himself never accepted the office of President (but twice was Prime Minister), always played a preponderant role in Polish political life.

"People recite his verses in school, but there has never been a recognition of the preponderant role Neruda played in Chilean history."

This civil war was mostly fought with mercenary troops on both sides, with Spanish Tercios playing a preponderant role on the royalist side.

On a political level, within the framework of the new partnership between Europe and Asia, Japan can indeed play a preponderant role.