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neutralise
verb
To make inactive or ineffective.
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One way or another the major UK parties have been pretty rough in their election campaign efforts to neutralise or exploit the likely consequences on Westminster of an SNP-dominated contingent from Scotland.
Despite last year's fiasco on the snowbound Stelvio, where a group of riders clearly gained an advantage by ignoring calls to neutralise the race on the descent, Giro race director Mauro Vegni simply shrugged and said he was sorry, but that article 12.1.040 – which states: "Non-regulation assistance to a rider from another team, stage races.
Some commentators said the new personal savings allowance risked leaving cash Isas looking a little redundant: a criticism the chancellor appears to have attempted to neutralise by announcing he was making the popular tax-free accounts "radically more flexible".
Neutralise your negatives: that's the aerial war game.
The body has a chemical that can neutralise this substance, but when that is exhausted, the breakdown products of paracetamol start destroying the liver.
Lobbyists have developed a sliding scale of tactics to neutralise such a threat.
That may neutralise her London origins and - worse - her residence in a village just outside Hartlepool's rival, Darlington.
However, in the face of climate emergency, lack of ambition and a set of shy measures towards carbon emission reductions can neutralise the best ideas and great diplomatic role played by the country.
The UN has long tried to neutralise the FDLR, along with more than a dozen other militias around the lake.
Instead, it allowed Mrs Merkel to neutralise the entire subject.
Candidates seek to neutralise one another's advantages, and plan and budget accordingly.
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