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 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 of the population lives in the western and northwestern parts of the country, where the two major cities, Yerevan and Gyumri ( which was called Aleksandropol ' during the tsarist period ), are located.

Most of Armenia's ethnic Azeri population was deported in 1988 – 1989 and remain refugees, largely in Azerbaijan.

Most of the population () speaks German ( 84. 5 %), with Italian being second most common ( 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 2. 9 %).

Most of the population () speaks German ( 477, 093 or 87. 1 %) as their first language, Italian is the second most common ( 17, 847 or 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian is the third ( 10, 645 or 1. 9 %).

Most of the population lives in coastal cities, although the hinterland is occupied at most in small towns and villages along the rivers.

Most of the population make their living through fishing.

Most of the population () speaks German ( 129, 592 or 77. 8 %), with Italian being second most common ( 9, 049 or 5. 4 %) and French being third ( 4, 280 or 2. 6 %).

Most of its ethnically and linguistically diverse population lives in the south, with densities ranging from 54 persons per square kilometers in the Logone River basin to 0. 1 persons in the northern B. E. T.

Most of the rest of the population belong to other Afro-Asiatic-speaking communities of the Cushitic branch.

Most of Guatemala's population is rural, though urbanization is accelerating.

Most of the population () speak French ( 128, 622 or 72. 3 %), with English being second most common ( 7, 853 or 4. 4 %) and Spanish third ( 7, 462 or 4. 2 %).

Most of the government's new policies clashed directly with the traditional Afghan understanding of Islam, making religion one of the only forces capable of unifying the tribally and ethnically divided population against the unpopular new government, and ushering in the advent of Islamist participation in Afghan politics.

Most of its members came from the middle class and tended to represent the Parisian population.

Most notably, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented sustained growth.

Most of the population is of European origin, mainly Spanish, British, German and other European nationalities.

Most of its German population fled to the " mainland " of Germany during the war.

Most people had been evacuated but the majority of the population became homeless.

Most of the population () speaks French ( 98, 424 or 78. 8 %), with German being second most common ( 5, 365 or 4. 3 %) and Italian being third ( 4, 976 or 4. 0 %).

Most of the Jewish population has left to Israel and Venezuela.

Most of the population fled to Germany or was killed during or after the war, while the rest was subject to a " nationality verification ", organized by the communist government of Poland.

Most of the islands ' native population ( 90 %- 95 %) died from Spanish diseases or married non-Chamorro settlers under Spanish rule.

Most of the population remained rather isolated on the island, allowing the dialects time to develop independently of those on the North American continent.

Most of the population is concentrated on the northern and eastern coast of this island where Calapan and Puerto Galera are located.

Most brown bears have about 2 percent genetic material from polar bears, but one population residing in the Alexander Archipelago has between 5 percent and 10 percent polar bear genes, indicating more frequent and recent mating.

Most of this urban increase was attributable to migration rather than to natural growth of the urban population.