Rebel leaders speak with foreboding of the prospect that, once the colonel has recovered his grip in the west, he may turn his tanks and aircraft to the east.Calls by the rebel council for foreigners to come to the rescue, muted a week ago, sound increasingly desperate.
"However, it seems inevitable that the public finances will be increasingly pressurised over the coming months by muted economic activity eating into tax revenues and pushing up unemployment benefit claims.
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Still, the impact of the Patco case may be muted, as financial institutions and their customers have become increasingly knowledgeable about computer security in the past three years.
The failures of welfare reform – still viewed as a great success by some – are increasingly well known, even if public discussion of these flaws is muted.
As a cable cutting millennial whose only interaction with cable is shouting at muted sports broadcasts in bars while the staff get increasingly annoyed, I had yet to actually hear the music being played under any of Ford's ads.
Visitors this week to IFA, a big industry trade show being held in Berlin, might have been forgiven for thinking that gadgets are increasingly from the female planet, given the round forms, soft light and muted colours that dominated the scene.
He said: "A significant number of homeowners are still at risk, particularly if economic activity is muted and unemployment moves higher in 2011 as tighter fiscal policy increasingly bites.
