| Nevertheless, thousands of lives and billions of dollars have been spent deposing a defanged dictatorship that posed no immediate threat to us. |
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| A great flick to take the wee ones to, especially when current paranoia practically begs both parents and kids to have their nightmares defanged. |
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| Modem cruise ships nowadays casually pass close by these perils of the sea, now well marked, and defanged by 21st-century navigational aids. |
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| Luckily, these pre-summit initiatives were defanged and something quite different took place in Geneva instead. |
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| But the party has been defanged by stolen elections, threats and violent attacks on its leaders. |
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| It certainly doesn't help that these tracks, marginal compositions to begin with, seem to have been completely defanged by glossy production techniques. |
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| If their campy, defanged delivery is too much for you, and you like your rock sweaty and sincere, there's still more than a couple songs with wider appeal. |
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| Never mind that he had been defeated, defanged, isolated, and contained. |
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| John Monks, general secretary of the European Trades Union Congress, complains that Britain has defanged the charter. |
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| People came from far and wide to photograph the defanged tiger in his Fort Sill home. |
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| His greatest achievement may be to have defanged the generals. |
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| Financial firms want less regulation and defanged or compliant regulators. |
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| Al-Qaeda in Iraq, IS's predecessor, was defanged partly by America assassinating its senior leaders. Achieving a similar effect on IS, though, will require more from the region's own governments. |
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| Without Muller, Germany was defanged by the swarming Spanish defense. |
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