It also presented him with the opportunity to diffuse allegations made by his ex-wife, which Gingrich essentially neutralized during the first five minutes of the last debate.
McConnell successfully neutralized challenger Bevin by being unafraid to grovel: he not only took junior Senator Rand Paul's endorsement and staff, for example, but he also put up with their eye-rolling (and nose-holding) in exchange for that support.
On economic ideology votes, the effect was especially large:In the case of the civil rights and budget waiver votes, the parameter estimates imply that the effect of a senator's own party affiliation would be entirely neutralized by a shift in the views of his most affluent constituents from one extreme to the other of the distribution of state opinion shown in Figure 1.
Barack Obama's JOBS Act contained a number of provisions that would have neutralized much of it for next year but it sank in the face of Republican opposition and the president seldom brings it up anymore.
Thus, the nuclear charge of the fragment is not fully neutralized by the atomic electrons, and the fission fragments fly apart as highly charged atoms.
In addition, the army had been neutralized in Yugoslavia in 1917 and in Bulgaria in 1935 36; in Albania and Romania it had never enjoyed extensive power.
The basic structural unit of the chromate minerals is a tetrahedron formed from four oxygen atoms, each at one corner of a tetrahedron surrounding a central chromium atom; thus each CrO4 tetrahedron has a net electric charge of -2, which is neutralized by metal ions outside the tetrahedron.
Also, there is some point at which a quantitative advantage acquires a qualitative dimension, and this advantage cannot be neutralized solely by relying on a technological gap between the weapon systems themselves.
By 3000 bc Mesopotamian smiths had learned to craft helmets of copper-and-arsenic bronze, which, no doubt worn with a well-padded leather lining, largely neutralized the offensive advantages of the mace.
By this mechanism, hydrochloric acid secreted by the stomach, which can be damaging to the intestinal lining, is promptly diluted and neutralized.
The negative charge that results—because each Al3+ ion has one fewer positive charge than the Si4+ ion it replaces is neutralized by a distribution of positive ions throughout the network.
