Most instances of elves in ballads are male ; the only commonly encountered female elf is the Queen of Elfland, who appears in Thomas the Rhymer and The Queen of Elfland's Nourice, in which a woman is abducted to be a wet-nurse to the queen's baby, but promised that she may return home once the child is weaned.

Brando was named the fourth greatest male star in the history of American cinema by the American Film Institute, and part of Time magazine's Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century.

Most commonly, intrasexual selection involves male – male competition and intersexual selection involves female choice of suitable males, due to the generally greater investment of resources for a female than a male in a single offspring.

Most prairie dog family groups are made up of one adult breeding male, two to three adult females and one to two male offspring and one to two female offspring.

Most explanations have focused on the blade-like, backward pointed crest of male P. longiceps, however, and ignored the wide range of variation across age and sex.

Most male skinheads in the 1960s had their hair cropped with a # 2 or # 3 grade clip guard ( short, but not bald ).

– Most European countries allow men to compete also, France even allows male only podiums, according to the number of participants.

Most scorpions reproduce sexually, and most species have male and female individuals.

Most male Sikhs have Singh ( lion ) and most female Sikhs Kaur ( princess ) as their middle names.

Most species fertilize the eggs internally, with the male depositing a sac of sperm in the female's cloaca.

Most of male population in Siam were in service of court officials while their wives and daughters might do some small-scale trade in local markets.

Most societies have only two distinct, broad classes of gender roles, masculine and feminine, that correspond with the biological sexes of male and female.

Most species appear to be gonochorists, with separate male and female individuals.

Most species have separate male and female flowers, but a few have bisexual flowers.

Most public schools do not have school uniforms although some encourage traditional Emirati clothing such as the kandora for male students and abaya for female students.

Most commercial cultivars are hermaphroditic ; cultivars that produce only functionally female flowers require the presence of male trees.

Most fig inflorescences contain three kinds of flowers: male, short female, and long female.

Most members of the family engage in courtship feeding, where the male presents prey items to the female, and such feeding can account for much if not all of the energy females require for egg creation.

Most of the species are dioecious with separate male and female plants, but some are monoecious.

* Most male waterfowls are very protective in raising their offspring, sharing scout duties with the female.

Most harriers are placed in the genus Circus, the scientific name arising from the circling movements female and male make when courting.

Most British and French titles ( particularly newer creations ) of nobility descend to the senior male by primogeniture, to the exclusion of females, and agnatic cadets may bear courtesy titles.

Most major powers repudiated Cold War assassination tactics, though many allege that this was merely a smokescreen for political benefit and that covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U. S., Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused of still regularly engaging in such operations.

Most modern assassinations have been committed either during a public performance or during transport, both because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d ' état where security is either overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely Salvador Allende.

Most is from the U. S. military occupation of the island from 1942 to 1946.

Most of the U. S. federal courts of appeal have adopted a rule under which, in the event of any conflict in decisions of panels ( most of the courts of appeal almost always sit in panels of three ), the earlier panel decision is controlling, and a panel decision may only be overruled by the court of appeals sitting en banc ( that is, all active judges of the court ) or by a higher court.

Most commercial curry powders available in Britain, the U. S. and Canada, rely heavily on ground turmeric, in turn producing a very yellow sauce.

Most conservatives in the U. S. support the death penalty.

Most U. S. conservatives prefer Republicans over Democrats, and most factions favor a strong foreign policy and a strong military.

Most CCC work, except for wildland firefighting, was shifted onto U. S. military bases to help with construction.

Most manufacturing is light assembly and food processing, geared to the domestic, U. S., and Central American markets.

Most U. S. assistance to Guatemala is provided through the U. S. Agency for International Development's ( USAID ) offices for Guatemala.

Most of Melville's novels were published first in the United Kingdom and then in the U. S. Sometimes the editions contain substantial differences with Melville acceding to his different publishers ' requirements for different audiences.

Most exposure occurs through ingestion or inhalation ; in the U. S. the skin exposure is unlikely as leaded gasoline additives are no longer used.

Most women in the U. S. found it necessary to marry, to a " front " such as a gay man where both could pursue homosexual relationships with public discretion, or to a man who expected a traditional wife.

It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U. S. and several other countries ; for example, Australia and Taiwan, ROC Most public libraries and small academic libraries continue to use the older Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ).

Mötley Crüe has been described through the years as the World's Most Notorious Rock Band and has sold more than 80 million album copies worldwide, including 25 million in the U. S.

Most histories of M & A begin in the late 19th U. S. However, mergers coincide historically with the existence of companies.

Most U. S. states, counties, and municipalities have some part of their election cycle coincident with this date.

Most U. S. NTSC broadcasters were required by the FCC to shut down their analog transmitters in 2009.

Most of the Paramount cartoons and shorts went to various television distributors, with U. M .& M.

Most Polish exports to the U. S. receive tariff benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences ( GSP ) program.

Most U. S. states have physical therapy practice acts that recognize both Physical Therapists ( PT ) and Physical Therapist Assistants ( PTA ), and some jurisdictions also recognize Physical Therapy Technicians ( PT Techs ) or Aides.

Second place may go to the area of Chelyabinsk U. S. S. R. ( see reference below ) as the " Most polluted place on the planet ".

Among the tracks on The Paul Simon Songbook that were rerecorded ( some with electric backing ) for Sound of Silence were " I Am a Rock " ( which as a single reached U. S. No. 3 in the summer of 1966 ), " Leaves That Are Green ", " April Come She Will ", " A Most Peculiar Man ", and " Kathy's Song ".

Most of the information here is derived from the U. S. Department of State website on Togo.