The calls for rallies were muted, the cases against the usual antagonists no longer so cut and dried.
He has also improved his relations with the PUK, which has muted its propaganda against him.Northern Iraq is no longer, as it was in the post-Gulf-war years, a centre for actual and potential democratic opposition to the Hussein regime.
Cardiff City captain Steven Caulker says he muted his goal celebration against Swansea City out of respect for his former club.
Instead, they came out against Dallas surprisingly muted, and were immediately stunned by the Mavericks' agile 6-foot-11-inch wonder from Germany, Dirk Nowitzki.
Although his initial reaction to the news was muted, he came out strongly against it once I announced my desire to keep the baby.
But the heated rhetoric of a few weeks ago, when Mr. Zoellick accused the Europeans of having a Luddite attitude against biotechnology, was muted this week as both sides stressed the importance of lifting the ban.
The automakers are cautiously against it (probably muted since the Feds own two of them now).
At many campuses, support for military action against Iraq has been muted or nonexistent.
