| The tendency is for the ruling ideology to slowly come to accommodate rebellion, to sanitise, defang and deodorize its primary practitioners. |
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| In addition to the important question of who receives the reports, other seemingly insignificant details can defang a proposal. |
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| He's very much aware of the fact that humor can be used to defang a problematic issue. |
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| If reality bites, we can just defang it and alter the picture to better serve our aims. |
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| Even better, it might defang the other nine state laws as well, making it clear that they truly apply to everyone. |
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| To be sure, Washington has been trying to defang this capability, but it has been living with it. |
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| There is indeed a threat, but it is the Northern Irish parties themselves who are in the best position to defang it. |
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| The Austrians argued that by including Mr Haider in government they would defang him, a trick the Swiss later tried to play on Mr Blocher. |
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| As I noted earlier, we cannot defang Hizbollah and Hamas while ignoring those who back them with weapons, financing and political support. |
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| Management will try to divide us, divert us, put blinders on us and defang us. |
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| Yet this overdetermined combination, with its delicious and delicate execution, helps defang both symbols and make them ludicrous. |
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| Even Mr bin Laden's death or capture is unlikely to defang these disciples. By its nature, such a diffuse movement is much harder to monitor than a unitary organisation. |
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