To what extent is the prize intended as a riposte to the Nobel committee?The Chinese government, for its part, has been singularly focused on neutralising the impact of Mr Liu's selection since it was announced in October.
"Now an operation is going on to neutralise small groups hiding in buildings where peaceful citizens are living," said Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council yesterday.
Aviation is on the brink of neutralising its climate change impacts, and will go on to reduce them.
When it first appeared, it was greeted as a simple novelty, a window on to lives that were seen almost nowhere on TV, unless neutralised by being in yellow, cartoon form.
Along with the state of emergency, this means that legislative authority will shortly be neutralised on a grand scale and redirected towards executive authority; access to fair trial will be obstructed; and greater restrictions on the media will be imposed.
By this time the rain had eased somewhat, although the race for the overall standings was neutralised on the first passage of the finish line, meaning that Froome had only to complete the 10 laps to win the Tour, no matter where he finished.
With heavy rain falling, it seemed to some watching at home that the race had been neutralised on the way down the Stelvio - i.e. the riders had been told to stop racing until it was safe enough to start again.
The lysate was rested on ice and neutralised by adding 1.5 vol of freon containing 500 μ M tri-n-octylamin.
Before and after spotting, membranes were denatured on Whatmann 3 MM paper saturated with denaturation buffer (0.5 M NaOH, 1.5 M NaCl) for 15 min. Membranes were then neutralised on Whatmann 3 MM paper saturated with neutralization buffer (1.5 M NaCl, 0.5 M Tris-HCl, pH 7.2) for 15 min, rinsed in 2× SSC, air dried and crosslinked at 80°C for 2 h.
So what can the outers do? "We need to neutralise them on the economy," says one source, meaning they talk about business, they rebut Obama and they question the Treasury figures.
