It would mean that animals are just as flawed as we are, susceptible to petty grievances and pointless conflict and capable of making awful sounds at each other when we really have nothing to say.
These results show that interocular conflict is capable of attracting attention, since it guides visual attention toward salient changes that otherwise would remain unnoticed for longer.
Rayna and Juliette might be rivals but their rivalry feels rooted in a believable conflict – they're capable of lending each other support in times of trouble, but have very different ideas about what works in the industry.
Although in the case of Madison Hillary Clinton was willing to represent her and her husband's business partner before a state commissioner appointed by him, it was a type of conflict she was capable of recognizing in at least one other instance: after Ellen Brantley was appointed a state judge by Bill Clinton, Hillary told Brantley that she would decline to appear before her.
Lawyers for the government are expected to argue that military action is not a matter for the courts, and that a decision to deploy troops in a foreign conflict is not capable of being a breach of its obligation to protect life.
As evidenced by these statistics, the conflict is certainly capable of taking lives, but add to that the necessity of medical treatment for civilians -- whether it is giving birth, dealing with a chronic illness, or receiving chemotherapy -- and the conflict is becoming life-threatening in other ways too.
It is becoming increasingly important in modern conflicts to be capable of defending one's population, objects, and communications from the activity of special operations forces, in view of their increasing use.
Moreover, most of the marks of science as commonly understood are shared by academic philosophy: the subject is systematic, rigorous, replete with technical vocabulary, often in conflict with common sense, capable of refutation, produces hypotheses, uses symbolic notation, is about the natural world, is institutionalized, peer-reviewed, tenure-granting, etc.
Much of the question-and-answer time went to what kind of war America might be drawn into next: Would it be low-intensity insurgency combat, fought mostly on the ground, or would it be a major conflict with another nation capable of fielding advanced warplanes and air defenses?
To supplant established modes of conflict, cyberwar must be capable of furthering the political ends to which force or threats of force are commonly applied, something that in major respects cyberwar fails to do.
