"It is not enough now for the Civil Service simply to respond to a dampened economic climate: it needs to become a central part of its recovery and growth," he wrote.
The garden at her weekend home has become a soaked, sick bay with black spots and mildew on her roses and dampened bulbs rotting in the saturated earth.
She also said the experience of being a Turner prize judge had "seriously dampened" her enthusiasm for contemporary art and that she had tried to "warn off" a colleague, writer Miranda Sawyer, from accepting an invitation to become a juror for the 2007 prize.
Finally, in the case of sustained IL-1β and glucocorticoid signaling - the consequence of which is dampened insulin signaling - the acute benefit of site-specific post-stress lipogenesis becomes lost.
Allow wood and plants to dry or get to a dampened state before putting your centerpiece on display.
Often, a water dampened cloth can get most products clean enough to photograph, especially consumer electronics.
But that hardly dampened spirits in Tskhinvali.
Try topping the plastic with a large dampened kitchen towel.
Despite her dampened spirits, Paloma is in good voice.
