Low ranking males commonly switch sides in disputes between more dominant individuals.

Low ranking members of the military, with their wages diminished due to inflation, started to voice their discontent to their superiors.

In 2009, ESPN writer Chris Low listed Tiger Stadium's Saturday night atmosphere as unsurpassed in the country, ranking it No. 1 out of the conference's 12 stadiums.

Low male-to-female ratios are usually the result of a war, but these figures were lower than the sex ratio of 88. 3 males per 100 females recorded for 1953, the last year of the Korean War.

Low androgen ( e. g., testosterone ) levels are referred to as hypoandrogenism and low estrogen ( e. g., estradiol ) as hypoestrogenism, and may occur as symptoms of hypogonadism in both sexes, but are generally only diagnosed in males and femles respectively.

*" Low status women ( e. g., orphans ) may have been particularly vulnerable to being raped because males need not have feared reprisals from the woman's family.

Low cards benefit the dealer, since according to blackjack rules the dealer must hit stiff hands ( 12-16 total ) while the player has the option to hit or stand.

In May 2005, the band teamed up with Gary Brooker and Andy Fairweather Low to give a charity concert called " Aftershock " in India, with all proceeds to benefit victims of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

Another famous abjuration was brought about by the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe of July 26, 1581, the formal Declaration of Independence of the Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.

* Low molecular weight gases ( Hydrogen & helium ) may be difficult to remove from the analysis chamber, and may be adsorbed and emitted from the specimen, even though not present in the original specimen.

Low vision is sometimes used to describe visual acuities from 20 / 70 to 20 / 200.

A combination of deception and brilliant administration – designed to conceal his true destination from friend and foe alike – enabled Marlborough to march unhindered from the Low Countries to the River Danube in five weeks.

To isolate the Danube from any Allied intervention, Marshal Villeroi's 46, 000 troops were expected to pin the 70, 000 Dutch and English troops around Maastricht in the Low Countries, while General de Coigny protected Alsace against surprise with a further corps.

Marlborough could not attack Dillingen because of a lack of siege guns – he was unable to bring any from the Low Countries, and Baden had failed to supply any despite assurances to the contrary.

Some have theorized it emerged from the overwhelming influence of Low German in medieval times, having flattened the originally Nordic melodic accent, but stød is absent in most southern Danish dialects where Low German impact would have been the greatest.

Low ( 1977 ), partly influenced by the Krautrock sound of Kraftwerk and Neu !, evidenced a move away from narration in Bowie's songwriting to a more abstract musical form in which lyrics were sporadic and optional.

As well as songs from the new album, the tour featured material from Bowie's Low era.

In English, the terms poniard and dirk are loaned during the late 16th to early 17th century, the latter in the spelling dork, durk ( presumably via Low German, Dutch or Scandinavian dolk, dolch, ultimately from a West Slavic tulich ), the modern spelling dirk dating to 18th-century Scots.

As the popular response to Luther gathered momentum, the social disorders, which Erasmus dreaded and Luther disassociated himself from, began to appear, including the German Peasants ' War, the Anabaptist disturbances in Germany and in the Low Countries, iconoclasm and the radicalization of peasants across Europe.

This is primarily because the Estonian language has borrowed nearly one third of its vocabulary from Germanic languages, mainly from Low Saxon ( Middle Low German ) during the period of German rule, and High German ( including standard German ).

The name Freyja is in fact a title meaning " lady ", from Proto-Germanic * frawjōn, cognate with West Frisian frou, Dutch vrouw, Low German Fro, Fru, German Frau.

Frankish * forhist is attested by Old High German forst " forest ", Middle Low German vorst " forest ", Old English fyrhþ " forest, woodland, game preserve, hunting ground " ( English frith ), and Old Norse fýri " coniferous forest ", all of which derive from Proto-Germanic * furhísa -, * furhíþija-" a fir-wood, coniferous forest ", from Proto-Indo-European * perk < sup > w </ sup > u-" a coniferous or mountain forest, wooded height ".

Around this time the center of political and social importance in the Low Countries started to shift from Flanders ( Bruges – Ghent ) to Brabant ( Antwerp – Brussels ), although Ghent would continue to play an important role.

Low German was spoken throughout northern Germany and, though linguistically as separate from High German ( Hochdeutsch ) as from Dutch and English, is considered " German ", hence also its name.

Usually their rank in the feudal hierarchy was equivalent to that of the simple sire ( dominus ), between the baron and the chevalier ; but occasionally they were great nobles with an extensive jurisdiction, as in the Low Countries ( see Burgrave ).

Low seems to have supported Eden at first and then relented because things worked out differently, so there is no fire in his eye.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies are important sources of information for studying dark matter, as they have an uncommonly low ratio of visible matter to dark matter, and have few bright stars at the center which would otherwise impair observations of the rotation curve of outlying stars.

Low business taxes-the maximum tax rate is 20 %-and easy incorporation rules have induced about 73, 700 holding or so-called letter box companies to establish nominal offices in Liechtenstein, providing 30 % of state revenues.

The Low Pay Commission found that, rather than make employees redundant, employers have reduced their rate of hiring, reduced staff hours, increased prices, and have found ways to cause current workers to be more productive ( especially service companies ).

Low taxes have drawn many foreign companies to Monaco and account for around 75 % of the $ 6. 581 billion annual GDP income in ( 2011 ).

Low sea levels may have also exacerbated temperature extremes.

: ' oxen's head ', with osse being a synonym for steer and bull in Middle Low German ), with an attached hide, and a crown above, may have originated from this period.

This could be because these languages have been mutually affected by each other, as well as having a similar development influenced by Middle Low German.

Low and high cycle fatigue are enhanced and have been documented to provide increases up to ten times greater than non-UIT specimens.

Some linguists have argued that it was the more-common Low Malay that formed the base of the Indonesian language.

Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man have their own Medium and Low Secure units but use the mainland faculties for High Secure, which smaller Channel Islands also transfer their patients to as Out of Area Referrals under the Mental Health Act 1983.

Low, thick clouds ( such as stratocumulus ) primarily reflect incoming solar radiation, causing it to have a high albedo, whereas high, thin clouds ( such as Cirrus ) tend to transmit it to the surface but then trap outgoing infrared radiation, causing it to have low albedo.

This may have merged later with the belief that butterflies ate milk and butter ( compare Middle High German molkendiep-literally “ milk-thief ”; Modern German Molkendieb and Low German Botterlicker-literally “ butter-licker ”), or that they excreted a butter-like substance ( compare Middle Dutch boterschijte-literally “ butter-shitter ”, also Middle Dutch botervliege, Dutch botervlieg, German butterfliege ).

Low birthweight is a risk factor for CP — and premature infants usually have low birth weights, less than 2. 0 kg, but full-term infants can also have low birth weights.