BG The last five years in Paris would have been unbearable without chef Adeline Grattard's bite-sized Franco-Chinois eatery yam'Tcha serving light and refined cooking that elevated flavours from across continents without ever muting them: mainly teas were suggested to accompany the tasting menus.
"I'm sure Hamas will develop, will evolve," Egypt's foreign minister, Ahmed Abul Gheit, said at a joint conference with Ms Rice, "We should not prejudge the issue".As for internal reform, the signs are that it is America that is muting its demands.
By muting its distributional impact, fiscal policy can make the medicine more palatable.
The central bank's insistence on higher provisions when times were good is muting the effect of higher delinquencies, for now.
The LDP's overall weakness and the imminent approach of the general election, which is expected to take place in early November, will naturally pull it closer to the political centre, muting any of the cabinet's more extreme tendencies.
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With nine states and the District of Columbia now permitting same-sex unions, nationwide popular opinion swinging in favour of marriage equality and more and more political figures even some conservative legislators withdrawing or muting their opposition, gay-rights lobby groups have achieved more than they could have possibly dreamt in the past decade.
Protecting creditors is a well-worn way of muting financial panic, and for a while at least the guarantee did just that.
They are vulnerable to high Arab politics: al-Jazeera has recently been muting its criticism of Saudi Arabia, probably at the behest of the Qatari royal family.
These "left behinds" have warmed to Republican claims to defend "old-fashioned values" from the evils of multiculturalism and secularism.There is another factor that is probably helping Mr Bush and muting the effect of demography: regionalism.
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