Women are much more likely than men to be murdered by an intimate partner.

Nothing will bring your "stuff" to the surface more quickly than involvement with several intimate partners at once.

The most common form of serious abuse against women and girls around the globe is violence by intimate partners.

And in 2000, 1,247 women and 440 men were killed by an intimate partner.

"They have been an intimate partner to Sematech almost since we began two years ago," he added.

Almost all legislation dealing with violence between intimate adult partners remains at the state and local level.

Females made up 70% of victims killed by an intimate partner in 2007, a proportion that has changed very little since 1993.

In 2008, in France, 156 women and 27 men were killed by their intimate partner.

Over all, the new report found, the number of people killed by their intimate partners declined to 1,830 in 1998 from about 3,000 in 1976.