However, we do know that imperialist arrogance, self-sufficiency, and prepotency has grown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castro Gives Speech at `Pedagogy 90' Congress] Reference

The retired Democratic Army soldier wondered if Dhamjjalla felt a hint of that same prepotency when he woke each morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission Of Honor]

This has also been enforced by statements as to the prepotency of certain pollen of identical species, but of distinct races.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

In all these cases we do not have abortions or monstrosities, but more or less harmonious forms often of great functional activity, endowed with marked viability and generative prepotency, except in the case of hybrids, when we often find even a more marked generative impotency.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

Were the Jews to discontinue all intermarriage with “other races” henceforth for ever, it would depend upon quite unknown laws of fecundity, prepotency, and variability, what their final type would be, or, indeed, whether any particular type would ever prevail over diversity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Utopia] Reference

The chances of a new Alliance for Progress are very slim and even slimmer that they may include Cuba at a time when, they believe, Cuba will not be able to handle the difficulties that may surface in this time of excitement and prepotency when they talk about settling accounts with Cuba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuba's Castro Conducts Interview on National TV] Reference

The brief mention of prepotency is common to them both.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844] Reference

I suppose you will answer that the European forms are prepotent, but this is riding prepotency to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

All this I attributed to that 'prepotency of transmission in descent' which I knew to be one of the Romany characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aylwin] Reference

It is a fact that the sire has the prepotency in the offspring, as has been observed by most writers on that subject, including yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

Unless he is a person of extraordinary mental prepotency, she will almost insensibly determine the character of the home in a direction quite other than that of our first sketch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought] Reference

Different plants, even of the same ancestry, vary greatly in prepotency or in the relative dominance of the influence they have over descendants raised from seed produced by them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato] Reference

It tends to the segregation of species into subspecies, it makes it easier for new variations to establish themselves, it promotes prepotency, or what the breeders call "transmitting power," it fixes characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

But so absorbed was I in my struggle with Fenella Stanley and Romany superstitions, that the only subject which could distract me from memory was that of hereditary influence -- prepotency of transmission in relation to races.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aylwin] Reference

Perhaps the Jews may serve to illustrate the influence of isolation in promoting stability of type and prepotency; perhaps the Americans may serve to illustrate the variability which a mixture of different stocks tends to bring about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

One of the most successful breeds of cattle (Polled Angus) seems to have had its source in one farmsteading; its early history is one of close inbreeding, its prepotency is remarkable, its success from our point of view has been great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

He is what is called on the roads, I believe, a "half and half"; and in nothing is more clearly seen that "prepotency of transmission," which I have elsewhere attributed to the Anglo-Saxon in the racial struggle, than in hybrids of this kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest] Reference

We tend, too, to forget, that in these unnumbered millennia there was ample time for it to be possible over certain areas of Europe to evolve what were practically new races, through the prepotency of particular stocks and the annihilation of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times] Reference

Although this fig-tree, growing out of the wall between the cellar and us, is fantastic enough in its branches, yet that other which I see yonder, bent down and forced to crawl along the grass by the prepotency of the young shapely walnut-tree, is much more so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference

Out of the remaining tenth a great majority would be beautiful simply by “taking after” one or other parent, simply through the predominance, the prepotency, of one parent over the other, a thing that might have happened equally well if the other parent was plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mankind in the Making] Reference

Were the Jews to discontinue all intermarriage with "other races" henceforth for ever, it would depend upon quite unknown laws of fecundity, prepotency, and variability, what their final type would be, or, indeed, whether any particular type would ever prevail over diversity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Utopia] Reference

To the prepotency of this distinguished divine, General Smith often, in a tone of mingled banter and seriousness, attributed not only his habit of mature reflection and love of learning, but also his "moderation combined with firmness" upon all questions which engaged his attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil War] Reference

To the prepotency of this distinguished divine, General Smith often, in a tone of mingled banter and seriousness, attributed not only his habit of mature reflection and love of learning, but also his “moderation combined with firmness” upon all questions which engaged his attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Services of William Farrar Smith Major General US]

It would seem a far simpler way for each plant's pollen to have acquired a prepotency on another individual's stigma over that of the same individual, without the extraordinary complication of three differences of structure and eighteen different unions with varying degrees of sterility!.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

It is nothing of the kind when the process of extinction works silently and slowly through the earlier marriage of members of the superior race, through their greater vitality under equal stress, through their better chances of getting a livelihood, or through their prepotency in mixed marriages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development] Reference

One by one came lamping ” chiefly that prepotency of Mars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning]

(pp. 43, 63), has such prepotency in transmitting its character that when crossed with other varieties a vast majority of the seedlings come true.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

Human experience takes place in several dimensions, each of which, alone or in interaction, is capable of assuming prepotency in determining an individual’s life choices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference