However, such fights are usually discouraged by visual displays, in which the males bulge their necks, roll their eyes and hold their horns in a vertical position while slowly pacing back and forth in front of the other male.

A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous martial arts fights between characters, usually as the films ' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development.

There are religious significance and aspects of the rooster and the cockfight which are exampled by the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious and spiritual cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice, where ritual fights usually take place outside the temple and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.

Ritual fights usually take place outside the temple proper and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.

* Martial Arts-A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous fights between characters, usually as the films ' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development.

Later, as the meaning of the word shifted slightly, none of the possible alternatives had precisely the same undertones of a person, usually young, who belongs to an informal group and commits acts of vandalism or criminal damage, starts fights, and who causes disturbances but is not a thief.

The Mouser also fights with a pair of weapons: a " slim, curving " sword called Scalpel and a dagger called Cat's Claw, the latter usually hidden in the small of the Mouser's back, and the original of which had a very subtle curve.

While the sting can also penetrate the flexible exoskeletal joints in appendages of other insects ( and is used in fights between queens ), in the case of Apis cerana defense against other insects such as predatory wasps is usually performed by surrounding the intruder with a mass of defending worker bees, who vibrate their muscles so vigorously that it raises the temperature of the intruder to a lethal level.

Snowball fights are usually light-hearted and involve throwing snowballs at one's friends or family.

In the 1990s, there were a number of cases of fist fights breaking out on the floor, usually triggered by some perceived unfair procedure ruling, but in recent years, these have become less common.

He won his first five fights before coming into a fight with David Bey twenty pounds heavier than he usually did in his early fights.

* mercenary – soldier who fights, or engages in warfare primarily for private gain, usually with little regard for ideological, national or political considerations.

The fights usually ended badly for Rocco.

The question then becomes ‘ why not wait until fall before ejecting the weaker siblings ?’ That way, the dominant juvenile could reap the benefits, not only of his food storage efforts ( and it usually is a male since they are larger and tend to win the dispersal fights ), but also of the food stored all summer by the about-to-be ejected losers.

While fights are not usually to the death, they are brutal and often with significant bloodshed and injury ; however, in many cases of mismatched opponents, the younger, less capable males are simply chased away, often to upland dunes.

In most subsequent fights, Pokryshkin would usually take the most difficult role, attacking the leader of the German fighters, who usually was an aggressive experte.

He was bullied at school, claiming that by the age of 15, he had been on the " losing end of several hundred fights " and that his father, usually on his mother's recommendation, beat him often as a child.

Their concerts were often marred by violence, so Barbieri usually sang out in the crowd, using it as an opportunity to stop fights before security could respond.

Defense rarely takes the form of overt fights: more usually there is a highly noticeable display, which may be visual ( as in the red breast of the robin ), auditory ( as in much bird song, or the calls of gibbons ) or olfactory, through the deposit of scent marks.

Reeves and Mortimer's unique comedy combines surreal, often inexplicable, visually and verbally inventive material which often verges on the downright bizarre with traditional comedy double act staples such as violent, cartoonish slapstick ( such as the duo engaging in escalating fights with large frying pans, baseball bats, hammers etc ...), witty, often improvised silly banter ( usually at a trademark, prop-strewn desk ) and purposefully corny, rapid-fire jokes.

It is usually used in reference to a forward who is physically large, with the toughness to dig the puck out of the corners, possesses offensive instincts, has mobility, puck-handling skills, may be difficult to knock off the puck and willingly engage in fights when he feels it's required.

These fights were usually close-up and personal, with a number of shots blasted from pistols, often resulting in innocent bystanders hit by a bullet gone wild.

Since the schools ' reputation were at stake, the fights were usually fierce but civilized.

I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.

They embrace independent poverty, usually with a `` shack-up '' partner who will help support them.

The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.

On Sundays, with the permission of Captain Heard, who usually attended with two of his officers, services were held in the double cabin.

Each evening the students appeared with the soup kettle and several petits pains, Esther usually being among them.

One had to find a donor, and usually very quickly, whose blood corresponded with the patient's.

The process usually began with a tutor boasting about a boy, as Chappell had boasted about Lightfoot, to the higher officers of the college and university.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

Faced with a gesture like Di Bosis', I find usually that my sentiments are closer to those of my sculptor friend.

Even with all possible precaution, homecomings are usually rather cruel and sad, and only the perpetually ebullient and the continually optimistic are made happy by them.

So the Commission's announcements of the new Soviet shots have been confined to one or two bleak sentences, with the fission yield usually left vague.

if the Government certifies that production may be possible from the property, the royalty obligation continues for the 10-year period usually specified in the contract or until the Government's contribution is repaid with interest.

Occasional meetings are held for the whole membership, usually with a guest speaker, while smaller discussion groups meet more frequently.

Sometimes it is necessary to roughly calculate the square inch area of the opening but the calculation can usually be made with sufficient accuracy that it won't affect the final computation.

Families with children usually don't want the house quite so cool.

International Touring Documents are usually provided with the car as are road maps and touring data.

In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

-- Syllables are linguistic units centering in peaks which are usually vocalic but, as has been noted, are consonantal under certain circumstances, and which may or may not be combined with preceding and/or following consonants or combinations of consonants.

A few key skilled workers experienced in the company's type of work usually must be brought in with the plant manager, or hired away from a similar plant elsewhere.

The data is now interpreted in conjunction with a price chart, usually of a popular stock average.

It is probably more effective than the expanded scholarship programs of the past decade, because the scholarship programs mainly aided the students with the best academic records ( who were usually middle-class ), and these students tended to use the scholarship funds to go to more expensive colleges.

While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.