Sentence examples for territorial fighting from inspiring English sources

For example, territorial fighting consists of threat display, chasing, biting, and other aggressive actions.

The reproductive instinct of this fish comprises (for the male) territorial fighting, nest building, mating behaviour, and care of offspring at the first level of the hierarchy.

For the nase, video observations by Ahnelt and Keckeis [76] showed strong competition and territorial fighting between males at mating time.

Of course, any plan should also have a number of principles that everybody should subscribe to, with respect to sovereignty, territorial integrity, fighting extremism, sectarianism, and non-interference in the internal affairs of Syria, a political solution, respect for minority rights, human rights.

The tusks may also have been used in intra-species fighting, such as territorial fights or fights over mates.

The association between male sex and FIV infection has been primarily related to increased risk of infection transmission due to greater predisposition of males to exhibit territorial behaviour involving fighting.

Proslavery Missourians had been fighting with territorial Kansas' free-state settlers since the 1850s.

Its neatly phased sequencing sits in stark contrast to a messy, bloody war on the ground, where warring sides are still fighting for territorial advantage.

Violence is mainly concentrated in marginal urban neighborhoods in Guatemala, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, dominated by gangs fighting for territorial control and murdering each other.

But an unsatisfied MQM might withdraw from the provincial coalition, possibly again pursuing its aims on the streets.The current violence appears to be mainly between the MQM and a breakaway faction known as the Haqiqi, fighting to gain territorial control.

Rabbi Shapira, a chief rabbi in Israel for 10 years beginning in 1983, spent much of his life fighting vigorously against territorial concessions to the Palestinians, emerging as one of the Jewish state's most divisive religious figures.