Showing posts with label Revised Rules of Civil Procedure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Revised Rules of Civil Procedure. Show all posts

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Dominantly or predominantly?

I think the 2013 Revised Rules of Civil Procedure, as proposed, will do a lot in speeding up our court processes. Let's see if I can cite specific examples in a future post.

While going over the Primer on the proposed rules  I stumbled over this passage on page 2:


It seems out of place even at first glance. Although dominantly and predominantly are synonymous, they have a subtle difference that could make the sentence stilted such as in this case.

So, when does one use dominantly over predominantly? Here's from Yahoo! Answers:

Ok, then, which word do we come across more which make it predominant over the other?

A Google search of the phrase "dominantly adversarial system" yields this:

The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd entries all refer to same primer. The second entry actually also uses "predominantly" which was truncated:


What about a search for "predominantly adversarial system"? Here's the result: