As he sees it, a more Darwinian world of tumbling dominoes would most likely result: there would be little to prohibit regional powers (like Russia) from exerting claims on neighbors falling within traditional or claimed spheres of influence (like Georgia, Belarus and Ukraine).
With both Kurds and the federal government exerting claim over disputed territories like these, neither side has been willing to invest in development.
Tawny owls need to call loudly and exert their claims to a patch of land because they are among the UK's most sedentary birds and rarely move more than half a mile from their birthplace.
Napier had accompanied Abu Bakar to fetch Tengku Teh, the mother of the deposed Sultan of Lingga, Mahmud Muzaffar Shah to Johor shortly after her son began to exert sovereignty claims over Pahang.
They simply can't be, given the hundreds of new restaurants that open every year and exert a claim on the review space and on a reviewer's lunches and dinners.
If black people can exert a valid claim on American democracy, Baraka seemed to be saying, then there's no reason for their language not to have equally powerful standing in American literature.
Run over a list of chapter-headings which includes: "In which the reader learns that it is possible to love with the mind, the heart, or the senses, but that these latter generally exert a prior claim". . . .
Arguably, it is because Durkheim's work on the sacred offers the starting point for a public language for thinking about that which people take to be fundamental moral realities which exert an unquestionable claim over society.
Such rewards enabled Carrouge to begin further legal action, attempting to exert his earlier claim to Arnou-le-Faucon.
Many Indian herbs have been claimed to exert notable anti-inflammatory activity without producing considerable untoward effects [ 8, 9].
