Sentence examples for captive position from inspiring English sources

(d) Few cases are, however, emerging of farmers operating in these chains in a less captive position thanks to the increasing demand for fresher, more genuine, and local food.

Considering that under the GI the farmers are supposed to sell to processors within the GI (otherwise they will not get for their raw material the higher value that the GI worth), it is easy to conclude that in such cases farmers can paradoxically find themselves in a captive position with an even worsened bargaining capacity.

House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) infected with Isospora michaelbakeri tend to experience a lower hierarchy position in captive flocks (Dolnik and Hoi 2010).

We had access to a cohort of captive European starlings whose position in the within-brood size hierarchy had been experimentally manipulated, and whose developmental histories were very well characterized (Nettle et al., 2015).

Our military prisons were not strung, like medieval dungeons, with the naked bodies of our manacled captives until "stress positions" and the removal of clothing were approved.

In 1153 they captured the old sultan and, although allowing him all the respect of his regal position, kept him captive for three years.

At night, captives sleep in the same position with their eyes tightly shut, and are slow to react.

Studies of the positioning behaviour of captive and wild roach [ 102- 104] have shown no effect of body size on leadership of the group (where leaders tend to get more food, but suffer an increased predation risk).

To better understand group living in sharks, previous research has relied primarily on techniques such as captive observations, fishery capture records and position estimates based on triangulation of underwater acoustic receivers [7], [9] [10], [17] [18].

"Apart from their role as captive consumers, the refiners are in no position to ensure, or even contribute to, growth in the cellulosic biofuel industry," the judges wrote.

The government's brief "is one with the administration's position that it can detain its captives in the war on terror indefinitely.