There are certain issues that can't be neutralized by a friendlier manner, he conceded, such as the Second Amendment.
The bomb, which was neutralized by a bomb squad, was found by a railroad employee who "noticed something unusual" while making his normal rounds, a spokeswoman with the S.N.C.F., the national rail company, told Reuters.
With politicians of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said to be trying to curb Mr. Takenaka's power and block his clean-up campaign, foreigners worry that his zeal for reform will be neutralized by a hostile Parliament and bureaucracy.
Already they have experienced a political spectacle in which the governing party's advantages in money and power were neutralized by a tactical maneuver that American political operatives could only dream of.
And then there is a risk that the Fed's action could be neutralized by a new Congress that has vowed to contract government spending, a core argument that led to the overwhelming Republican victory on Tuesday.
The Heat face a similar dilemma on the offensive end, where James has been neutralized by a defensive scheme reminiscent of how the Spurs covered him in the 2007 N.B.A. finals when he still played for Cleveland.
The report argued that U.S. nuclear strategy could no longer be built around its superior strategic bomber force and its destructive capacity, because those could be neutralized by a surprise missile attack.
While China is not a signatory to the treaty, its arsenal of strategic nuclear weapons is so small -- only 20 or so weapons can reach American shores -- that Chinese officials fear that the arsenal would be neutralized by a modest American antimissile system built in Alaska or deployed on ships in the Pacific.
Under ordinary circumstances the poison is neutralized by a chemical within the liver, glutathione.
