Couples had less conflict when the overweight person reported feeling the partner was supportive of their efforts to exercise and eat a healthy diet.
But in terms of any immediate budget discipline, there's less to this conflict than the posturing suggests.
And when many might have succumbed to the pressure of their peers to take an easier path, less fraught with conflict and confrontation, she kept walking straight along the only path she saw could create the changes Britain so needed.
That actually leads to less certainty, more conflict, and we can't all focus on coming together to grow.
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In this type of war, technology counts for less than in conventional conflict.
Nuclear weapons, he thinks, make total war less likely, limited conflict more so.
But working women tend to thrive less on drama and conflict.
With freedom of conscience assured, conflict becomes less likely.
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Maintaining a force structure sufficient to engage in large-scale, high-intensity combined arms campaigns and the advanced or specialized assets required to assure access to critical domains is essential to deterrence of conflict, much less war waging.
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Men who shun cooking and cleaning can actually engender marital conflict which could also result in less sex.
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More than 1, 000 people died in the conflict in 2006, but that was less than a quarter of the death toll in 2001.
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People avoid conflict, and online returns are far less stressful.
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Such a designation, experts have said, generally make it less appealing for foreign nations to become involved in the conflict.
"The drive for more biofuels means more investment is going into those crops, meaning less land and less investment going in for food crops, causing a massive conflict and resulting in rising prices, which is having a huge negative impact, especially on developing countries, " said Clare Oxborrow, food campaigner for Friends of the Earth.
Conflict-minded Apple fans argue that Android phones are less slick and uglier, and that they junk up the system with low-quality apps generated in its open developer community.
In fact, if IC has any real hidden agenda it is less likely about wanting to draw the U.S. into armed conflict in Africa and more likely to be an advertising relationship with Facebook.
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There has been less progress for the poorest children and those living in countries affected by conflict, in remote regions or those from minority groups, when compared to those whose families have greater resources.
He went on to name a well-worn list of difficulties in controlling online conflict: Attribution is difficult or impossible, deterrence is far less effective, the private sector has a far more active role in defense, non-state actors have more potential for destruction, and the measurable potential for damage is far from clear.
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Beyond conflict and humanitarian settings, women who are empowered economically and politically are less vulnerable to physical abuse.
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Every now and then, you'll see less than nine people sitting on a case precisely because somebody's got a conflict of interest.
Deutsche is less stodgy than it was when it bought Morgan Grenfell, but there is still scope for conflict.
"The principle would be to invest early, making substantial intervention less likely and in the event of escalation success more likely as well as improving post-conflict planning, " he will argue.
They developed less than lethal weapons - guns that hurt but do not kill - as a means of resolving conflict without causing serious or fatal injuries.
Thus we should not allow the dramatic power of the most visible narrative, the struggle between oppressed and oppressor, to drown out the sad reality of another less noble story line -- namely that this is still, at least for now, a sectarian conflict.
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The rising human-wildlife conflict, coupled with a fast-growing urban encroachment, means that Kenya is now home to less than 2, 000 lions, a massive drop compared to the 15, 000 that lived there just a decade ago.
The advisors with a conflict tended to give biased advice, of course, but their advice turned out to be much less biased if they were giving it to just one person than if it was for a group.
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