The queen's main privilege is to produce the majority of the female offspring in the next generation.
There was talk of selling the state's remaining stakes in a string of big corporations, of privatising lots of companies owned by local authorities and even of abolishing the ordini (self-regulating associations that keep a stranglehold on entry into the professions, often to the benefit of the offspring of existing professionals).
Under the north end of the High Line lies the Lot on Tap, the offspring of another celebrity chef.
Progressive taxes prevent intact families from bearing many young while the welfare state welcomes the offspring of the less industrious.
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This creates a selection pressure which drives the genes through the population, as the offspring of wild flies die more often than those of engineered or hybrid flies.
With the exception of the imperial offspring of the Ming dynasty and the dauphins of pre-Revolutionary France, contemporary American kids may represent the most indulged young people in the history of the world.
Knossos's enduring fascination derives as much from Evans's bold restoration of the palace, the centre of Europe's first urban civilisation, as from the raunchy legend of the Minotaur, the monstrous offspring of Queen Pasiphae's affair with a bull, who was shut up at Knossos in a labyrinth built by Daedalus, an early technological whizz.
Using eggs from the same donor so that the offspring would be kin, doctors fertilized them with the respective sperm of the two men and implanted the embryos in two separate surrogates.
Wardens patrol the area by day in order to protect the birds and their offspring from the threat of predators such as foxes and Kestrels.
The Alberta government estimates the offspring of a single pair of Norway rats can multiply to 15, 000 in one year.
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Not all of this is to avoid tax: those passed over as top dog in the parent company find solace in the chauffeur-driven car and free golf-club membership that go with the presidency of one of the offspring.
Staffed by locals and Turks alike, the schools are patronised by the offspring of elites lured by Western standards of education (if not mandatory Turkish-language classes).
It will be the smaller of the two offspring companies, comprising its newspapers and other publishing assets, its nascent education business and some Australian television assets, that holds onto the News Corp. name.
The intriguing result came when they did the same thing with the rotifers' offspring.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) believes it is more likely that companies will produce clones with "desirable" traits, breed them, and bring products from the offspring into the food chain.
According to this idea, the successful female ends up with the strongest partner and achieves the highest quality offspring.
Shirley Tilghman and her colleagues correlated this abnormal growth with disruptions of the methylation patterns on the hybrid offspring's genes.
Many of the animals have never lived in social groups before and have never seen an adult monkey, as they are the offspring of monkeys taken from the wild for breeding.
As a result, dead males may act as plugs to prevent other males from copulating, ensuring that the suicidal male, not a rival, fathers the offspring.
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The indulged offspring of the country's 200 million-strong middle class, they are a group for whom time and energy are used for emulating modern icons -- and deconstructing old ones.
Patent lawsuits are the logical offspring of the shareholder lawsuits that were filed routinely by lawyers such as William Lerach during the 1990s, seemingly whenever a stock dropped in price, and for nearly any reason.
After sequencing the genomes of each of the people involved, tallying the new mutations in the children was simply a matter of comparing the sequences of the parents with those of their offspring.
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The Plant Patent Act of 1930 was designed to encourage the cultivation of new varieties of plants by prohibiting competitors from cultivating the offspring of those plants without permission.
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The scholars found a complex but clear series of connections between maternal health and the offspring's fatness in later life.
Five years ago the government lifted the anonymity granted to donors, so that now any offspring conceived by the donor method, are able to trace their biological parents when they get to the age of 18.
Mammals seem less able to perform the trick (which is probably why no sex bias has yet been detected in the offspring of Texas ranchers).
The Royal Hospital School was founded in Greenwich in 1712 as a charity school for the offspring of those injured in naval warfare and is currently celebrating its 300th anniversary.
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So the Canadians, offspring of the British parliamentary tradition, have to be explained away as closet southerners clinging to the border.
Such food, whether it be a neatly wrapped fly, or the body of the dead male, provides nutrients for the female, allowing her to produce bigger or more numerous offspring, to the ultimate benefit of the father's genes.
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