This is because sexual conflict dilutes the fitness benefits of investing in the current brood, whether these benefits arise from the quantity or the quality of offspring.
Before then, imagery of war had been subject to absolute censorship during conflict and diluted for the sake of "taste and decency" by the media during peacetime.
SANA, Yemen — Yemen on Sunday appeared to reject a cease-fire offer from the leader of the Houthi rebels, raising fresh questions about a festering conflict that has diluted the government's ability to deal with a growing insurgency by Al Qaeda.
The fact that sampling was not possible in the districts most strongly and recently affected by conflict may have diluted the influence of this exposure, as well as limiting national generalisability.
His appointment as prime minister in April was seen as the key to new American "engagement" in the conflict, based on diluting the powers of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinians' elected president, reforming the Palestinian Authority (PA), and implementing the road map.
Here the students, other than Chris, are essentially spectators and when the narrative switches periodically to Rowland's wife, Nina, who worries whether their marriage can survive his jealousy and frustration, the effect is less to extend the central conflict than to dilute it.
But it was not to be the final battle in a bruising conflict that left the negotiators drained and the draft diluted.
Then President Bush invaded Iraq to "drain the swamp," unleashing sectarian conflict in that country, diluting U.S. military strength worldwide, soiling America's international reputation, and empowering Islamist Iran--even then feared to be developing nuclear weapons.
Considering health behaviour as social practice and combining it with other values like enjoyment and sociability might dilute this conflict.
Several participants also acknowledged the power of social support to motivate and encourage them to eat healthily and dilute the conflict of competing values.
