Many reported negative experiences with condoms, and condom dislike and failure were common, lessening trust in the method.
Because allergic rhinitis is a common disease that lessens quality of life and is associated with significant morbidity, determining environmental exposures associated with the development of allergic rhinitis is of great public health importance.
Personal hygiene stands at the intersection of many causal explanations, and is a common way informants attempt to lessen the risks of sexual relations they may not be in a position to avoid.
But then came diclofenac, a common painkiller widely used in hospitals to lessen the pain of the dying.
The United Nations must immediately convene North Korea and the United States, along with South Korea, China and Japan around a common table to cool the rhetoric and lessen the tension.
We are not all liberals, but we are all professionals who routinely deal with risk assessment, regardless of ideological camp and denial of real danger is a common trait that should heighten concern, not lessen it.
As gastrointestinal adverse events are a common problem with all purgatives, interventions to lessen this would be welcomed.
My suspicions of a common gastroenteritis virus (such as Norwalk virus) were lessened as I noted a persistence of symptoms, especially among those with the most severe symptoms, which lingered from days to weeks.
By promoting values of effective partnership, including, for example, communication, reflexivity and learning from each other, research relationships can develop over time, and tension can lessen as individuals work towards a common goal.
For years Britain has resisted calls for a common European regulator, fearing that it would introduce onerous new rules which would lessen the City's appeal to footloose financial firms.
Although the cases in this cancer cluster may in fact have a common etiology, their small number and the length of time between diagnosis and our exposure assessment lessen the ability to find an association between leukemia and environmental exposures.
