Tours fill up quickly here in the midwinter mating season, when full-grown males — typically about 15 feet long and weighing up to two and a half tons — engage in fierce, chest-bumping battles to secure leadership over harems of females.
There tend, however, to be additional contributions in the form of instruments, which member states will offer to the projects to secure leadership roles.
Despite her remarkable ascent in government, Marois failed twice (1985 and 2005) to secure the leadership of her party, which led to her retirement from politics in 2006.
It was his misfortune to secure the leadership of the 1922 committee at a time when there was a general decline in the party's fortunes.
Many of the country's security officials are likely to be furious given how heavily Pakistan invested in helping Mansoor secure the leadership of the Taliban after a power struggle broke out following the announcement of Omar's death.
Last month, Saudi Arabia outmaneuvered Qatar to secure the leadership of the opposition coalition for one of its candidates, Ahmad al-Jarba, displacing leaders who had been backed by Doha.
The infrastructure to be developed with the HGP was similarly presented as an opportunity to "secure the leadership of the United States in biotechnology and present U.S. industry with a wealth of opportunities" (Hood 1992, p. 163).
Despite his lack of natural political instincts, Ignatieff secured the leadership of the Liberal party in remarkably quick time (it took just three years from his arrival in parliament).
The sale is critical to Diageo's long-range goal of securing its leadership of the liquor business as it sheds other interests to focus on spirits and its Guinness beer holdings.
Alexander Stubb, a Europhile, was the runaway victor in the European poll, and has now turned his attention to securing the leadership of his party and succeeding Jyrki Katainen as prime minister.
