On this occasion, however, William Martel, Stephen's steward, made a fierce rear guard effort, allowing Stephen to escape from the battlefield.
These attacks appear to reflect more than spontaneous local discontent or the rear-guard efforts of fugitive former Baathist officials.
For instance, Mark Ridley-Thones, ofe of the three blacks on the City Council and a staunch supporter of Chief Parks, criticized blacks who have seen the battle as a rear-guard effort against Latino power.
It is clearly evident that within each category (M1, M2 and F1) there was no correlation between the babbler's weight and its guarding effort (R=0.12092, p=0.57354).
They obtained a positive regression of mass vs. guarding effort due to the inclusion of guarding by young immature group members, which were both lighter in weight and guarded much less than the adults.
Such a pattern may arise if the reduced effort by preferred males to secure WPP (e.g. mate guarding effort) in order to invest more in gaining EPP, is counterbalanced by a lower incentive for their social females to engage in EPC (Kokko and Morrell 2005).
Mr. Levinthal said he hoped the regulatory agencies would guard against efforts to "make an end-run" around the new requirements.
Federal judges are the primary guardians of Americans' constitutional rights, and it will now be incumbent upon senators to guard against efforts to pack the court system with ideologues intent on eroding these rights.
Though the nonprofit organization will continue in some form to guard against efforts to reinstate the death penalty, some of which are under way, the staff has already been reduced to two from five and the board of directors is considering a proposal to switch exclusively to volunteers, said Jeremy Schroeder, the executive director.
Mr. Noel has denied wrongdoing by Mr. Powers and Mr. Garcia and has said both guards fought efforts by the state Corrections Department to hide abuse of prisoners at Pelican Bay.
Now, it is pressing more than a dozen armed ethnic groups to give up their weapons and become border guards, an effort that appears to have galvanized the groups' opposition.
