While agreeing that the Chicago diocese has mostly muted the issue of sexual orientation, Joan Barr Smith, a non-voting parishioner from Evanston, said she expected a Lind victory would have caused some turbulence.
The flood of refugees prompted the Chinese to issue muted criticism of the junta, on Friday calling for it to secure Myanmar's borders.
Perhaps sensing that climate is now a political nonstarter, David Cameron, Britain's new Conservative prime minister, was "strangely muted" on the issue in a recent pre-election debate, as The Daily Telegraph put it, though it had previously been one of his passions.
Bush muted the education issue, which the Democrats thought they owned, by advocating parental choice for our worst performing schools.
The medical community's political voice has thus far been muted on these issues.
At a time when pop music is largely muted on social issues, Tempest deals bravely with poverty, class and consumerism.
Instead, Pentagon officials who are never named get muted criticism for issuing confusing memos and not monitoring things closely enough.
But he was generally muted about political issues, and by the nineteen-seventies his broader push for social action had only strengthened.
Mr. Li, who is in his late 70's and will probably suffer no immediate effects from Mr. Jiang's speech, has long issued muted criticisms of the government, generally concerning the 1988 military suppression of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.
Analysts covering the major banks and brokers had issued muted earnings forecasts on properties like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Citigroup.
