We found that dominant females were more likely to breed than subordinates, but that dominance status was not predicted by circulating T. In the second experiment, we allowed a resident male and female to establish ownership of a breeding aviary (territory) then introduced a second, intruder female.
Early arrival at the breeding site, prolonged breeding with continuous sexual activity throughout the season, ownership of a centrally located territory within the chorus, and successful movement between the dynamically changing choruses are all common ways for males to maintain dominant, or territorial, status within the chorus.
Argentina and Britain have disputed ownership of the territory for over a century, leading to a thwarted Argentine invasion in 1982 that left hundreds dead on each side and flecks of minefields across the islands.
However, hopes were dashed that the operation would provide a template for subsequent military interventions, thereby promoting respect for international law and security, because Desert Storm was an old-fashioned, classic war between sovereign states over ownership of a precise bit of territory.
In 2004, the International Court of Justice, in its Israel wall advisory opinion of 2004, confirmed that territory can be "occupied" even if there is an underlying dispute about sovereign ownership of that territory.
Concerned that wealthier countries would gain disproportionate access to vaccines while creating cost barriers for others, Indonesia invoked sovereign ownership of a virus isolated in its territory.
Spain, which claims ownership of the territory on its northern tip, fought Gibraltar's effort to become official Uefa members as it feared similar Catalan or Basque teams could emerge in the future.
Although Spain claimed ownership of the territory, which comprised part of the modern-day U.S. state of Texas, including the land north of the Medina and Nueces Rivers, the Spanish did not attempt to colonize the area until after locating evidence of the failed French colony of Fort Saint Louis in 1689.
Due to this tradition, ownership of a beach seine and fishing rights at fishing territory vested them as; exclusive, primary or secondary rights.
And in some famous land rights cases, the songline of a territory in question was sung in Australian court as proof of ownership of a piece of land.
Dracula taps into the anxieties of a post-Jack the Ripper fin-de-siècle England anxieties centring on sex, class, and the ownership of territory (or empire) in particular.
