Sentence examples for neutralized the issue from inspiring English sources

Jackson's argument had neutralized the issue.

Mr. Casey neutralized the issue by pledging to remain in the Senate; he is seeking re-election this year.

He nimbly neutralized the issue and easily won reelection in the fall.

Clinton signed the bill into law, neutralizing the issue.

But Mr. de Blasio successfully argued that Mrs. Clinton, by embracing it, would neutralize the issue.

The aim was to fix Social Security's finances enough to neutralize the issue for the 1984 re-election campaign.

Effectively, Obama could still be for universal health care and yet neutralize the issue for the election.

But ultimately, it's really about fighting the health care war to a draw by neutralizing the issue.

At the same time, officials said they were mindful that issuance of the new opinion might help neutralize the issue for Mr. Gonzales even as it served as a sharp critique of the earlier opinion.

While foreign policy dominated much of Mr. Kerry's address, it was far from his only theme of the speech, and reflected the calculation of Mr. Kerry's advisers that he needed to at least neutralize the issue of terrorism in order to move the election debate to issues that might play better for the Democrats.

This is the locomotive of dissatisfaction that Trump means to ride into the White House, and Clinton has tried desperately to neutralize the issue by announcing that she, too, opposes the hated TPP and that she, too, deplores the unfortunate effects certain trade deals have had.