These several remarks are apparently applicable to animals; but the subject is here excessively complicated, partly owing to the existence of secondary sexual characters; but more especially owing to prepotency in transmitting likeness running more strongly in one sex than in the other, both when one species is crossed with another, and when one variety is crossed with another variety.

Ballydoyle, meanwhile, has not enjoyed its prepotency of 2017 -- at this point 12 months ago it had captured five of the Classics run in Britain and Ireland, but the corresponding figure for this season is two.

This is what Maslow meant when he wrote in his groundbreaking 1943 paper, "A Theory of Human Motivation," that basic human needs are organized into a hierarchy of relative prepotency .

Al-Sulta (regime, authority, power) is another challenging keyword: In Salih's text, it is not used to refer to a form of hegemony or sovereignty but a state of naked prepotency shared by the state and the (male) militant.

"Enough of the arrogance, prepotency and intrigue," said President Nicolas Maduro on state television.

Deprivation or frustration of a need of high prepotency causes its control over the body's character.