Sentence examples for or neutralised from inspiring English sources

But the continuation of US human rights sanctions would be easily brushed aside or neutralised by the Islamic Republic.

"The toxic views would come out and they would either be blunted or neutralised, or at least [pupils] would be given something to think about.

The government monopolises the agenda in the chamber, so that those matters that the House may be keenest to debate can be simply kept off the agenda or neutralised through the technical device of staging the debate "on the adjournment", which means there is no vote.

But most of these amendments were thrown out or neutralised with the help of the Democratic Unionist party's Ian Paisley Junior in a Commons committee two weeks ago, which, incidentally, went largely unnoticed by the media because of the vote on gay marriage on the same day.

The use of tear gas by Hong Kong's police has already backfired, but it may be that the protests can be contained or neutralised till they simply die out.

Similarly, many of the women in Madge and O'Connor's study reported that the social support from other mothers relieved or neutralised the feeling of isolation and a shrinking life-world that can be experienced during maternity leave [ 18].

Catching illness much earlier can either diminish the impact or neutralise the disease before symptoms appear.

I had hoped the international community could remove or neutralise him without war.

"Elizabeth and Philipip" adopt a range of disguises and fake identities to seduce, coerce or neutralise their targets, which makes The Americans the most wigged-out show on television by some margin.

Apple has already integrated Facebook (and Twitter) into iOS — so it could deepen that integration to meet or neutralise Zuck's challenge while still retaining the key levers of control over its platform.

The use of smalt for this purpose was widespread in the eighteenth century, as very little pigment was required to tint or neutralise the tone of the paper [35].