In many ways this was actually a very defensive budget, adapting to and neutralising Labour attacks, spraying out some one nation-style quasi-egalitarian rhetoric to cover up the stubborn smell of self-serving privilege clinging to the Tory brand.
It is meeting today's competing commitments by buying up gas from central Asia (thus also neutralising some potential competition for the European market).
Most bond-fund managers hedge their investments against currency risk in the forward market, neutralising the impact on the exchange rate.
In the immediate future, Mr Nazarbaev may succeed in neutralising his foes.
The country's best chance at neutralising this threat is to charge ahead with progressive reform, such as the Right to Information Act, which is still in draft form.
In that case, whichever party governs might refuse to deliver the higher interest rates that most economists agree are needed soon after the election to stop inflation rising.The score on macroeconomic policy is roughly level-pegging: Labour has succeeded in neutralising macro management as an election issue.
Each of the versions of this protein that exist in every individual is capable of locking onto and neutralising a different invading pathogen, by interacting with different molecules on the pathogen's surface.
But rooting out the problem will be a great deal harder than neutralising a critic and deleting a batch of internet postings.
Iran will take another step towards neutralising its stockpile of 20%-enriched uranium by turning the uranium-oxide powder (into which it has already been converted) into fuel plates for a research reactor.
Aids is a breakdown of the complicated system that protects a person from serious diseases by attacking and neutralising infections.
A "quick investigation" had found the allegations about the newly appointed cleric to be unfounded, he insisted.To a cynical mind, the pope's headline-catching refusal to judge gay people might sound like an artful way of neutralising the most embarrassing saga that has come to light during his young papacy.
