Todies chase intruders, sometimes accompanied by a wing-rattle, and replace the intruder by assuming its position on the perch.
This, of course, was the pattern over the many centuries of the tributary system, a situation now being resumed as China once more assumes its position as the major economic power in the region.
Tokyo has emerged from the dark days following Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami, re-assuming its position as an Asian hotspot for business travel.
Given a calibration point locating at (x,y) in the x-y coordinate system (a flat earth is assumed), its corresponding position in the subimage can be obtained by N a = − a 1 p a + N aFFT 2 N r = − a 2 p r + N rFFT 2 (24).
Reagan then got even more effusive, saying, "You will pardon me I hope, Mr. President, if I recognize here tonight what is already apparent to the nations of the world that Indonesia, under your leadership, has assumed its rightful position as a great nation of Asia and of the world".
He joined the staff of film critic André Bazin's magazine at the outset and in 1956 assumed its editorial control, a position he would hold for the following seven years, working alongside Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and Claude Chabrol.
"American officials…must be prepared to allow, in some measure, for a rising Chinese navy to assume its rightful position, as the representative of the region's largest indigenous power".Mr Kaplan's fascinating book is a welcome challenge to the pessimists who see only trouble in China's rise and the hawks who view it as malign.
Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn't taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.
By 25 million years ago, Ireland was close to assuming its present position.
Bonneau [36] argued that the anticipation of lip rounding is not sufficient to lower the burst so as to allow identification of /u/ from /t/, suggesting that the tongue body cannot assume its target position for /u/ immediately after the burst release.
