Sentence examples similar to blunted ties from inspiring English sources
The two countries had also come closest to Mr. Davutoglu's vision of regional integration, reinvigorating historic ties blunted by colonial borders and the cold war.
And since those investments are blunted by caution, it ensures that we remain tied to dull jobs in a service economy.
Exercise blunted their appetites.
The ad, which you can see here, and which the Carnahan campaign has chosen to leave on the air in spite of Fox News legal threats, is of an interview on Fox News with Chris Wallace where Wallace destroys Blunt for his ties to Abramoff and Blunt's own lobbyist girlfriend.
For one thing, he said, Israel sees friendly ties with this largest developing country as blunting the often hostile stance of much of the third world.
Belief, which cognition embeds, is tied to action, and action, in turn, blunts the force of skepticism, it is pointed out in several of the classical schools.
But they are wary of the ISI's longstanding ties to militants like the Taliban, which Pakistani spies have seen as a necessary ally to blunt archrival India's influence in Afghanistan.
