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Besides, the very circumstance that the usurper was his mother's husband. . . still blunted the edge of his purpose.

Whether or not the pursuit of these designs is blunted by the Fukushima Daiichi event remains to be seen.

The blood pressure-decreasing effect of antihypertensive drugs is often blunted because of the activation of feedback mechanisms.

Some booed the outgoing president, but their anger was blunted by the knowledge that they would not have to put up with him any more.

When viewed from the front or the side the head bears a general resemblance to a well-blunted, clean wedge, being smooth in outline.

Iron Emmett's lads were well at it in the yard when Jon emerged, blunted swords slamming into shields and ringing against one another.

His nerves had become blunted, numb, while his mind was filled with weird visions and delicious dreams.

Dollops of state largesse, including tax breaks, bigger food subsidies and amnesties for convicts, have so far blunted their impact.

Each had to put up with traffic problems that blunted their challenge, but the silver arrows were quick.

GSH depletion in face of an acute or chronic inflammatory process, aging or infection, will lead to a blunted immune response.

CONCLUSIONS The AER response to telmisartan with or without HCT under habitual low salt intake can be blunted by NaCl supplementation.

He eased restrictions on the long-banned Kurdish language and blunted the army's influence.

The blunted nocturnal decline and its exacerbation with age in AAs corroborate and extend findings of cross-sectional studies.

This paper presents the separation shock motion features induced by a hemicylindrically blunted fin in a hypersonic turbulent flow.

In addition, they exhibited a blunted nocturnal fall in fluid and electrolyte excretion and a higher pulse pressure than white individuals.

What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we miss all the best.

Ann blunted her mother's scissors by using them to cut the wire.

Underweight rats have enhanced dopamine release and blunted acetylcholine response in the nucleus accumbens while bingeing on sucrose.

It seemed, the old woman's weapons had been blunted in parrying the daytime intruders.

But calculations indicated that fields of interstellar gas would have dissipated a supernova's radiation and blunted its impact.

She blunted out that she was better.

The downgrade was blunted by reduced imports , an uptick in exports and an infusion of government spending .

The desire for larger families has been considerably blunted by China's transition in recent years to a market economy.

A medieval martial sport in which two groups of mounted and armored combatants fought against each other with blunted lances or swords .

The power of public health and all our best interventions is blunted when health systems are weak.

The rise in unemployment has been temporarily blunted by a government subsidy that helps companies postpone lay-offs.

The play is tight and brisk and Mr Craig's performance is particularly strong, his blunted Chicago accent like rocks hitting concrete.

But the timing of Colombia's latest iteration of its claims blunted their effectiveness.

In separate experiments, negative experiences, both physical and emotional, were blunted by cash.

Mr Paulson's remedies were often blunted by complexity, inconsistency and his insistence that lenders and borrowers pay for their mistakes.

This sensitivity is blunted, hardened, by the constant struggle of opposing desires.

book block milling back too much or milling knife and cut Groove tool used blunted the milling back deformation.

Well, the creative forces of Nani and Ashley Young have been blunted compared to earlier in the season.

Blunted touch sensation , especially near the tips of fingers and toes .

This has blunted a key channel of monetary policy and led to large numbers of foreclosures.

This is poverty passed from one generation to the next in a painful chain of illness, misery, blunted capacity, and lost productivity.

Their opponents argue that long periods of relatively low oil prices blunted the incentives for exploration.

The slowdown appears to have blunted the recent surge in prices.

To respond promptly to the new market demand has blunted the electronic giant 's competitive edge .

Alcohol blunted my sense of taste.

China has somewhat blunted criticism by allowing some appreciation in the renminbi.

But accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have severely blunted public support.

Their power to do so is unfortunately blunted by weak national capacities.

Finally, it is important to recognize that the ventilatory response to hypercapnia and hypoxia is blunted in the elderly patient.

Her bad behavior blunted his interest to her.

The decline in exports was blunted by a rise in US military sales contracts.

partly because their sensation of thirst may be blunted.

In addition, these patients have a blunted response to atropine, making the early treatment of bradycardia essential in these patients.

To Caderousse's great astonishment, the knife, instead of piercing the count's breast, flew back blunted.

Since then "the French press has been dependent on power, " he says; this has blunted its edge.

Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.

Check you needles frequently for barbed or blunted points.

In addition, we demonstrated that maternal licking of pups also blunted adult sensitivity to stress.

The histological tissue damage observed was blunted after D-JNKI-1 pretreatment both for necrotic and apoptotic cell death.

By trying Mr Demjanjuk Germany hopes to show that time has not blunted its zeal for an honest reckoning with the past.

Kites will lose their ravenous hunger, and the teeth of wolves will be blunted.

Terror blunted her feelings; deaden a sound.

The drug blunted his senses.

The knife's edges have blunted.

The meat blunted the knife.

Age hadn't blunted his passion for adventure.

The problem is that our natural warning system has become blunted through easy living.

These days our sense are blunted and we've forgotten to use them in order to keep ourselves safe.

So if we are to enjoy this short life we should respect the divinity of appetite , and keep it eager and not to much blunted .

So if we are to enjoy this short life we should respect the divinity of appetite, and keep it eager and not too much blunted.

Probe into Cadres'Sense of Legal System Getting Blunted and Transgression

basal leaves up to 30 cm long, oblong, pointed to blunted at apex, cordate at base, margin undulate;

A fine mind blunted by ages

The foil is a light, flexible weapon with a blunted point;

Calculation of roll torque in effect of ablation lag for spinning blunted cone at angles of attack

As we grow older, our power of acquisition gets blunted

Effect of blunted pre-cracking on stress and strain distribution

Display and evaluation in abdominal organs blunted by CT Scan

Blunted perception of symptoms of asthma

a knife blunted from use