Axelrod, in turn, discovered that noradrenaline could be neutralized by an enzyme, catechol-O-methyltransferase, which he isolated and named.
Unfortunately for Pepsi, the notion that police brutality could be neutralized or rectified by the gifting of a soft drink was too much for anyone to bear.
("She trapped herself, she marched into the labyrinth of her own construction," McEwan writes of Briony. "Her doubts could be neutralized only by plunging in deeper").
PRESIDENT BUSH'S diplomatic strategy for December was hardly a mystery: Focus attention on a unique threat posed by Iraq, one that could be neutralized only by disarming the country and deposing Saddam Hussein.
Should the recession end quickly -- if this one is of average length, it will be over in another month -- the issue could be neutralized, leaving the political landscape dominated by President Bush's stratospheric approval ratings.
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.
In Vedic times, sin (enas) or evil (papman) was associated with illness, enmity, distress, or malediction; it was conceived of as a sort of pollution that could be neutralized by ritual or other devices.
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.
"If the total amount of climate change that occurs could be neutralized by one Mt. Pinatubo, then doesn't it make sense to add one per cent this year, two per cent next year, and three per cent the year after that?'' he said.
In addition, many of Mr. Gore's backers said that if he faced Mr. McCain in a general election, the senator's efforts to attack on campaign finance could be neutralized by his having been one of the Keating Five, a group of senators who at various times made inquiries of federal regulators on behalf of Charles H. Keating Jr., a corrupt savings and loan operator.
