Under the legal doctrine of laches, those who take too long to assert a claim lose any entitlement to compensation.

Tension over the islands has been rising for the past two years and nationalists from both countries make intermittent attempts to land on them to assert their claim.

Provided the common law requirements of possession that was adverse were fulfilled, after 12 years, the owner would cease to be able to assert a claim.

Once the worker revolt was put down, however, the creditors and landlords began to assert their claims for back rent and overdue debts in court.

Contention over the glacier was aggravated by these expeditions, through both sides asserting their claims.

Ministers will assert their right of veto over freedom of information requests but will stop short of a broader filleting of the laws.

It states that 'employees may assert the right to discuss their personal beliefs in the workplace and employers should not prevent such conversations'.

The deadline passed, but with tension rising they decided to assert their right to patrol their own base and maintain its facilities.

Public officials assert a right to conceal more than they defend the public's right to know.

It will remain our land, and we will continue to assert that right irrespective of the courts.

This choice allowed him to assert authority over all his territories.

Stately homes and gardens constructed by the colonial elite also served to assert authority and to naturalize a social hierarchy onto the colonial landscape.

Aggression has its place both as a motivating tactic and a way of asserting authority.

However bad the response, it's a price worth paying to assert control over the future credibility of the monarchy.

Parliament will now struggle even harder to assert control, perhaps through a confidence vote or legal ways of forcing the government to act.

In recent years the commission has come under constant fire as it has tried to find savings and assert control over legal aid fees.

It can help you assert control.

In his over-eagerness to assert control, the governor appears via his commentary to have limited his own options.

Another admits that he adds a sharp twist to the right ('to assert dominance') confirmation of how the greeting remains an opportunity for status display.

The games became a political tool used by city-states to assert dominance over their rivals.

Deer headbutt both for play and to assert dominance, as do goats.

Different sounds may be used for different functions in communication, such as in behavior towards predators and in asserting dominance.

By defining something in a certain way, we assert ownership.

Get copies of any agreements between the university and public or private funding sources that may affect a scientist's ability to assert ownership over his work.3.

The original bases for its claim included university regulations asserting ownership of academics' intellectual property, and common law principles supporting employers' ownership of employee inventions.

They are thus a form of permanent visual station identification, increasing brand recognition and asserting ownership of the video signal.

The current owner of the home asserted ownership, and the slab was returned.

All three texts contain megalomaniacs who manipulate their circumstances and remote settings to assert power over others.

In effect, she writes, the villages were experiments in social engineering, a means of asserting power and control.

Marriage alliances were important in this era, although scholars disagree as to the extent parents or kings asserted power over spousal choice.

They assert the importance of economic co-operation against isolationism.

I bristle and want to assert my importance.

Reviews assert the importance of a diverse forest structure and a dense deciduous understory for western tanagers.

The humble road map (on paper or satnav) asserts the importance of one set of features on the landscape.

It asserts the importance of truth while illustrating the role of fiction in understanding truth.

Politicians need to assert their independence from their own party and be more readily willing to co-operate with those from other parties.

According to him, facts are always tightly enmeshed in theories, and never able to break free and assert their independence.

About half of the local associations did assert their independence, and chose candidates outside the priority list.

She should assert her independence from her advisers, he wrote, and show initiative.

That way they assert their independence.

All middle managers are egomaniacs and intolerant of dissent, the angry author asserts.

One author asserts that political history as a whole can not exist without the study of ideological differences and their implications.

The author asserts that... in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Turning to images, the anonymous author asserts that they are of two kinds: those establishing a likeness based upon subject, and those establishing a likeness based upon a word.