If people's ability to yolk to another's distress is blunted, then their motivation to help that other individual is also blunted.
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Its wholesale appropriation by pop culture blunted its political force.
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Denise Gough brings charm to her Harper, blunted but resilient.
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This argument once blunted calls for Citi to be dismembered.
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The massive undertaking hasn't blunted Rolson's enthusiasm for the sport.
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The title track's a blunted Valley of the Sun revision.
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"The learned responses get blunted or go away," explained Swithers.
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In Chicago and Milwaukee, new Hispanic residents blunted population losses.
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Some analysts said the impact could be blunted through acquisitions.
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Bush's GOP primary win there blunted McCain's 2000 presidential bid.
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Are such effects maintained, or blunted over time by compensatory mechanisms?
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But these incentives are blunted when consumers cannot make informed choices.
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To some critics, he softened the music or blunted the edge.
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The swords were blunted but they were still made of steel.
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His anti-trade message has blunted domestic opposition to those accords.
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The gummies have blunted the rawness and given me wicked munchies.
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This effect was of course blunted by the Supreme Court's ruling that states could refuse the law's Medicaid expansion and blunted further by the unwillingness of many red states to accept the expansion's extremely generous terms.
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But the delay has blunted the momentum of the state's eventual winner.
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The strong umami taste is perfect for blunted taste buds during travel.
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The defeat also blunted the momentum created by a win over Michigan.
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Too-high levels of stress mean exhaustion, panic, and blunted brain power.
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Yesterday's move seems to have blunted at least some of that criticism, too.
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The strength of this revolutionary movement blunted the impact of Ahrar al-Sham.
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Just how caffeine differentially boosted or blunted the men's athletic performance remains unclear.
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Domestically, Mr. Trudeau's eternal optimism would be blunted should the Nafta negotiations collapse.
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That move blunted his upward momentum and made the race surprisingly close. Sen.
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Breakingviews Anheuser-Busch InBev's flair for cutting costs is being blunted by complexity.
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Mr. Kelly returned with extra genetic mutations and blunted scores on cognition tests.
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But there's a real risk that momentum for stronger action would be blunted.
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With American support, the Kurds blunted Islamic State in the darkest days of 2014.
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Benefits from cutting taxes have been blunted by efforts to collect them more stringently.
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But Raffl blunted the Predators' momentum with a terrific individual effort at 23:21.
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But our military planners are prepared for this and its effect would be blunted.
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The JCPOA blunted the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran through diplomacy, not war.
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In the past, the impact on consumers has been blunted by ObamaCare's tax credits.
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It's impressive, and keeps me hanging on despite my own blunted fighting game skills.
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The decline in pay TV subscribers has blunted businesses once thought to be invincible.
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Cornet blunted everything Cibulkova threw at her to reach the season-opening tournament's semifinals.
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The air support has blunted rebel offensives and allowed the government to retake some areas.
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Just as fencers use blunted swords, deer antlers are meant to interlock rather than pierce.
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With a very high-phenol coffee, we blunted that response and actually improved vascular function.
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A strong economy buoyed Republican victories in the Senate and blunted losses in the House.
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Instead, the normal boost the economy might get from falling Treasury yields will be blunted.
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However, these gains could be blunted or even negated by new restrictions on international commerce.
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This technology disruption has blunted the "dishonest media" millions of Americans have come to despise.
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That said, I also felt as my creativity, idiosyncrasies, and other charms had been blunted.
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The CFPB's power now is concentrated on enforcement, but that power may also be blunted.
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Mr. McConnell blunted that effort, though, by limiting the amendment process on the defense bill.
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Typically, state budget writers have blunted oil price busts by drastically cutting services like education.
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But there are also unexpected events that can be blunted or controlled with some planning.
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But it also claims that resistance has blunted the early stages of the ground offensive.
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Population growth and accelerating diversity favour the Democrats, but those trends can be blunted with gerrymandering.
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S. trade talks blunted risk appetite, underpinning safe harbors including the Japanese yen and sovereign bonds.
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He forged for them the weapons of nonviolence that withstood and blunted the ferocity of segregation.
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Political uncertainty has blunted growth in Kenya, a Western ally that has East Africa's richest economy.
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And any momentum created by that alone was repeatedly blunted by the West Wing soap opera.
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That blunted the healing process: Fewer stem cells were activated, so fewer new muscle cells appeared.
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Months of acrimonious campaigns and sporadic clashes have already blunted growth in East Africa's richest economy.
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The implication of this blunted reward circuit is that they find normal food consumption insufficiently rewarding.
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A 85033 report from public interest group Common Cause found that political forces blunted its impact.
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I got sober seven years ago, after spending a dozen years blunted by alcohol and drugs.
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Even before a single vote was cast, electoral rules blunted the power of certain political blocs.
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That momentum has been largely blunted by the US ban on exporting software and components to Huawei.
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I was, and still am, consumed with boys, with boyishness, with denim and sweat and blunted edges.
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He said the Wells Fargo scandal will have blunted industry efforts to soften the impending remuneration rules.
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Those who want to defend liberal democracy seem not to notice that their weapons have been blunted.
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Technology, he complained, has blunted the emotional impact of troubling news, distancing people even farther from empathy.
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The meds made her extra anxious and, most disconcerting to her, blunted her desire to make art.
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The drawn-out process in Iowa blunted the momentum that several candidates, especially Buttigieg, received from Iowa.
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But the statins had blunted some of the expected exercise effects beneath the skin, it turned out.
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Here, that unclassifiable quality has been blunted and contained, and Salander made into another blandly tough chick.
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But as the format spread, competition increased, and any advantage to using Instant Articles was blunted within months.
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It's another sign of how the sensory assault of the information age has blunted our capacity for shock.
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Contractually triggered rate increases have helped, but those rate hikes will be blunted in the next contract cycle.
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But its reach has been blunted in South Carolina because it is the result of a necessary compromise.
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I did this canvas after canvas, bad painting after bad painting, each work blunted with stupid, undeveloped rage.
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People who had taken the acetaminophen also had a blunted response compared to those who took the placebo.
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The tools also showed telling signs of wear and tear, such as tiny scars, striations, and blunted edges.
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For a time, the court ruling appeared to have blunted the Manhattan office's pursuit of insider trading cases.
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But the fact that witnesses have so far testified in private has blunted the impact of their accounts.
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His regional strongman reputation is blunted and his much-vaunted economic plans have failed to move the needle.
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A roughing penalty to Quick at 17:55 of the third blunted a possible rally by the Kings.
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It's a real axe, but it's blunted so it's not as if you can cut anyone with it.
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Just because a knife has been blunted doesn't mean that it won't pierce the skin or kill someone.
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But having resigned from the Senate, his attacks on judges may be blunted, Mr. Isacson, the analyst, said.
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But it's possible that whatever momentum Biden gains from South Carolina could be blunted somewhat by early voting.
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The Russians have repeatedly blunted Western attempts to hold Mr. Assad's government accountable for using banned chemical weapons.
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Vigorous running had blunted acylated ghrelin production more than gentler jogging and longer runs more than briefer ones.
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But the Trump administration granted waivers to major customers of Iran and blunted the impact of the sanctions.
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That claim, Courser said, would have blunted the political impact of an actual affair if it had come out.
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New drugs to prevent infection and lessen the impact of the virus on the body have blunted its impact.
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But all of them were side dishes to the tramadol that blunted reality, making each day easier to digest.
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The continued cratering of bond yields has also blunted the advantage fixed income instruments held over their shiny counterpart.
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But pollsters note that Trump's momentum from those controversies has been blunted after a series of his own stumbles.
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If they could earn a minimum wage for driving around in a quiet area, those incentives would be blunted.
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" Yeah, but: "The fact that witnesses have so far testified in private has blunted the impact of their accounts.
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Ford's sincerity and presence of mind blunted the cross-examination, but in fairness Mitchell was handicapped by the format.
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Tyler also argued that GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump made several decisions that blunted his own Iowa momentum.
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And the politics surrounding the committee appear to have blunted much of its potential hazards to Clinton's political hopes.
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The findings were mixed: Drug treatment, mostly for psychosis, blunted day-to-day symptoms of hallucinations and delusional thinking.
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The combination of post-crisis regulations and new technologies has gutted the trading business and blunted Goldman's competitive edge.
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But details are blunted (Othello's soliloquy to "I Heard It on the Grapevine" has nothing of its former precision).
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The day ahead could hold anything, he knew, so the sweetness of anticipation was always blunted by wordless dread.
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But their impact is blunted when no one making the films cares about what these elements are supposed to mean.
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The fallout blunted his efforts to go to war with the Republican "establishment" by backing outsider candidates in Republican primaries.
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The timing of the runoff also blunted some of the things that had so animated national progressives on Moser's behalf.
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A sharp tumble in stocks last fall was also blunted by the surge in buybacks, which stabilized the market temporarily.
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Officals say Hamas has been "weaponising" civil unrest after seeing its rockets and attack tunnels blunted by Israeli counter-measures.
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I guess once we put out [23's] Blunted at Birth, the first album, people seemed pretty enthusiastic about it.
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Facebook dropped 23.8 percent, but the impact was blunted by gains in technology stocks, especially a continuing rally in chipmakers.
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For more than a decade, they have been blunted by a sovereign immunity law protecting foreign governments from American lawsuits.
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Furthermore, in an impeachable proceeding, the need for additional investigation is blunted by the long and independent investigation by Mueller.
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AFSCME, which blunted the power of public sector unions, arguably the largest promoter of big government policies in the country.
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" In this industry, the report said, "the market mechanisms that usually moderate product prices have been blunted or even eliminated.
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So other than Google's having to pay a big fine, the ultimate effect of the European ruling may be blunted.
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Diego Schwartzman did not allow himself to think his tennis career could be blunted because he is 5 feet 7.
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It raises the possibility that his momentum has been blunted over the last week, perhaps by attacks on his record.
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A latter-day Ignatz, he revels in life's jokes, getting blunted or twisted by bad vibes, and unwinding through wit.
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The question now is whether the populists will maintain their momentum or be blunted by a newfound hesitancy among voters.
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Of Trump's term so far, the best that can be said is that the president's incompetence has blunted his danger.
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And the film's "big box office" narrative was blunted by Star Wars: The Force Awakens performing at an even larger scale.
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Robust consumer spending blunted some of the hit to GDP from weak exports, business investment and a slowdown in inventory accumulation.
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It seems likely that for black students, the impact of desegregation will have been blunted by this displacement of black teachers.
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Some political analysts suggested that Mr. Trump might have blunted his momentum by skipping the Republican presidential debate earlier this week.
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It was synchronously sweet and sharp to the tongue; the lemon's initial sting blunted by the creaminess of butter and eggs.
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Spot gold fell 1.8 percent as the oil price rebound and rise in U.S. shares blunted bullion's appeal as a haven.
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"The stress in Indian banks has blunted monetary policy transmission while hitting the supply and cost of credit," Nomura's Varma added.
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Spot gold fell 1 percent as the oil price rebound and rise in U.S. shares blunted bullion's appeal as a haven.
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Allison's as likely to turn in a straight up techno tape as he is frenetic sound collages and blunted rap beats.
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Electoral rules blunted the power of some blocs, and the threat of jail time hung over leaders of anti-junta parties.
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But the practical effect of Mr. Trump's threats seemed blunted, analysts said, by Washington's reliance on countries like Egypt and Jordan.
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act blunted the effect of the AMT in two ways, subjecting fewer households to this levy.
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The shooting also blunted the prospects of a controversial bill to loosen restrictions on purchasing gun silencers, according to GOP sources.
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While that effect was blunted by the financial crisis, declines were never as sharp around the lake as elsewhere in Italy.
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Considering the circumstances, the campaign staff believed Mr. Giuliani had blunted the political blow Mr. Trump had inflicted on Mr. Trump.
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Spot gold fell 1.4 percent as the oil price rebound and rise in U.S. shares blunted bullion's appeal as a haven.
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The police record for that September night is gone, and more than three decades have blunted the memories of many involved.
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Spot gold XAU= fell 1.4 percent as the oil price rebound and rise in U.S. shares blunted bullion's appeal as a haven.
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That levy was designed to replace a thicket of indirect central and state taxes that critics previously argued blunted India's economic competitiveness.
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Sevastova blunted the Russian's fightback with a hold for 4-2 followed by another big break and then served out the contest.
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It was a noble goal whose impact was blunted by a larger trend: the general decline in posting to the News Feed.
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Chris Christie, whose debate performance one week ago blunted the momentum of Senator Marco Rubio, dropped out after the New Hampshire primary.
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However, the political stand-off has blunted economic growth in Kenya, which has been largely stable since the violence a decade ago.
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Specifically, the GABA neurotransmitters that are normally inhibitory flipped to become excitatory, which blunted the brain's response to alcohol-induced dopamine release.
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"That's when the momentum was blunted and shifts in polling began to occur," said a top Republican operative working on the midterms.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg blunted his worst critics by taking responsibility for his company's data leak scandal, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday.
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These days, the bank is fighting to maintain an edge that has been blunted by the diminution of its core trading business.
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The new law won support from farmers, but many warn that its benefits could be blunted by a protectionist approach to trade.
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At Wistariahurst — a historic house museum here — a small playing area and slippery parquet floors made even a blunted weapon a menace.
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Heightened demand for food imports amid the pandemic could boost grain barge shipments blunted since 2018 by the U.S.-China trade war.
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Still, Wells Fargo's advantage could be blunted by its monthly fees, something that Chime and Varo customers don't have to deal with.
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You must take away that Trump is brand obsessed — his own brand — and that anything that besmirches that brand must be blunted.
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Clinton supporters also say the leaked Podesta emails blunted the fall out from two bombshell news stories that were damaging for Trump.
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It's just that instead of the music being about "getting blunted" or promiscuity, it's about doing the "Lindy Hop" and maintaining stable relationships.
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Participants engage in competitive fights with historically accurate reproductions of medieval armor and blunted weapons, following period tournament rules (for the most part).
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Everyone knew the real crisis was going down in the countryside, but the knowledge of its magnitude was blunted by lack of communication.
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"Optimism regarding a new wave of business-friendly policies and regulations may be blunted by the realities of Washington politics," RidgeWorth's Gayle added.
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You might call this sound blunted, and it can occasionally be unexciting, but I find it to be an absolute pleasure in use.
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While that pitch might suit the current period of uncertainty, playing down chances of explosive growth had blunted interest from some domestic investors.
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Aggressive monitoring by social media companies seems to have blunted some of the disinformation campaigns aimed at U.S. voters ahead of the Nov.
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The disappointment of bond markets will be blunted by a rule that obliges banks to keep 21.5% of their assets in government bonds.
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Look at dubstep and electro, or moombahton and baile funk, kuduro or EBM; the cutting edge quickly becomes a dulled and blunted knife.
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When even icy style guru Anna Wintour is among the insiders clamoring to make a self-parodying appearance, the subversive edge gets blunted.
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The years don't seem to have blunted the startling mix of intensity and uncertainty, audacity and anxiety, with which he approaches each role.
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Stuffed into a double-vinyl pack, the record's a joyride of dusty slaps that groove between blunted hip-hop beats and porous synthwork.
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But any remedies he orders may soon be blunted: The Education Department is working to completely revise its system for handling future requests.
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Lamb blunted it by declaring loudly and repeatedly that he did not and would not support her as the leader of House Democrats.
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Before the Watson fight he was a dangerous man, though what happened that night at White Hart Lane undoubtedly blunted his finishing instinct.
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Extremism has cost the GOP a lot of power, and blunted the natural advantage the Senate's small-state bias gives the Republican coalition.
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It looked it, too: against Croatia, Argentina had a defense left exposed, a midfield that was overrun, and an attack that was blunted.
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Experts I spoke to cautioned that if governments respond appropriately and this outbreak is blunted, the worst-case scenario will probably be avoided.
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Then, last year, India rolled out an ambitious tax plan to replace a thicket of indirect levies that critics argued blunted economic competitiveness.
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More than 350 knives were blunted and 18 confiscated in the raid on two open-air markets, police said in an online report.
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The more this became a cliche of entertainment, the more it blunted the edges of a harsh reality for untold numbers of women.
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In one scene, she delivers a forceful argument about the complexities of women, and how their talents are reduced and blunted by marriage.
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The impact on diesel was blunted as well by the fact that refinery hubs have shifted out of Europe since the last strikes.
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Like all scandals, the contours and even the magnitude of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church have now become familiar, and thus blunted.
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Hailing from Bristol UK (home of Massive Attack, Roni Size and Appleblim), you can feel the blunted sound system culture running through his work.
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Celebrities will make mistakes in public, sure, but with a good team on hand, the chances are that the greatest blunders will be blunted.
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Mr Benson's "Otherworlds" exhibition, which opened this week at the Natural History Museum in London, reinvigorates any blunted enthusiasm for what is out there.
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Although it blunted Indian air attacks with hastily-gifted North Korean anti-aircraft missiles, in the end its forces were annihilated by Indian artillery.
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The revolution has allowed the United States to be more self-sufficient, helped stabilize Europe's economy and blunted Russia's efforts to become a superpower.
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Such language, they say, can create a false sense of security that it can be blunted by walling off America from the outside world.
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There, the damage is compounded by melting permafrost and the loss of sea ice that in the past blunted the force of winter storms.
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They said their careers had been blunted, they felt marginalized in meetings, and they had endured other forms of sexual harassment and gender discrimination.
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Microsoft's power in enterprise software is blunted to some degree by other old giants like IBM, Oracle and SAP, plus newer players like Salesforce.
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Efforts to regulate businesses would be blunted if agencies were forced to bring only the easiest cases to avoid having their decisions second-guessed.
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Other times, the physical stress response is blunted, undermining a person's ability to access the physical and mental resources needed to meet daily challenges.
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As such, the attention on any one performer is somewhat blunted -- in the way "Slumdog Millionaire" was -- but the casting is impeccable at every stage.
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But those gains were blunted by more losses by its global trading desk, which has exited energy trading and shed key personnel in recent months.
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But in early 2014, his momentum was blunted by a scandal in his administration involving the closure of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge.
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Food inflation has blunted the positive impact of a recent minimum wage hike for the poor, said Muammer Komurcuoglu, economist with Istanbul based Is Invest.
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If this approach is widely applicable, or if future AI systems can be trained using sparser amounts of data, the tech giants' edge is blunted.
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This confusion might have been deliberate, to show the transference of identity as the conversations continued, but it blunted the ideological conflict driving the show.
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Their option of dual citizenship, the invisible border and growing north-south co-operation, on everything from electricity markets to health care, blunted the distinction.
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Yet the global stock fund growth blunted a pattern of withdrawals for stock funds overall that has lasted the better part of the last year.
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Blunted like a sledgehammer at the front and sporting meaty off-road wheels and tires, the TRD Off-Road model's chunky exterior betrays its intentions.
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The multiple restrictions blunted some of the excitement around the drug's approval, said Dr. Lauren F. Streicher, a Chicago gynecologist who specializes in sexual health.
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A lack of convictions, limited awareness among and training of professionals, and problems around data collection have blunted Britain's anti-slavery response, the report said.
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Like "Socks for Supper" by Jack Kent, which is a blunted "Gift of the Magi"-type tale about a poor couple who eat only turnips.
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Jon Adams, a portfolio manager at BMO Global Asset Management, said rising expectations of further interest rate declines blunted the impact of Monday's sell-off.
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There is one moment of great emotional impact in the story, but it's blunted, because we've barely had time to get to know the character.
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Those concerns blunted some of the optimism, with liquidity light during Asian trading as China and Hong Kong markets were shut for a public holiday.
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Brazil's annual inflation rate probably slowed sharply in March, blunted by central bank interest rate hikes and one of the country's worst recessions on record.
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Turnout among Democrats could set records this Election Day, but the impact would be blunted if it's concentrated in predictable strongholds rather than swing districts.
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The impact of Wednesday's decision may be blunted because several unions expected to lose the case and already had started to adjust their electoral strategies.
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The effect of any other last-minute "November surprises" may be blunted somewhat by the fact that more than 22 million people have already voted.
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Robust demand for South American exports following an Argentine peso devaluation and a weak Brazilian real partly blunted the impact of lower North American shipments.
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Defense Secretary James Mattis on Tuesday insisted coalition forces have "blunted" enemy groups in Afghanistan in recent months but conceded violence remains an ongoing challenge.
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The extended elections season blunted economic growth in the region's richest economy and left 100 people dead, mostly from clashes between police and opposition supporters.
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Meanwhile, Barr drew intense criticism for his misleading summary of Mueller's report, which deflated public expectations and blunted the political impact of its eventual release.
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Gains in its agricultural services segment were blunted by more losses by its global trading desk, the second quarterly loss for the unit in 2016.
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Our allies may take to social media and send their condolences and solidarity, but the visibility is too often blunted in our pain and trauma.
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While people's out-of-pocket drug costs can be blunted by insurance coverage and patient discounts provided by drugmakers, those are projected to rise annually too.
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Penenberg highlighted North in his Forbes piece but emphasized that his take on this issue was blunted by the fact that he had done this before.
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The Stefani brand's edginess might have been blunted, but its meaning was still strong — and, as evidenced by Stefani's continued popularity as a brand ambassador, lucrative.
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The musical blurriness reflects concealed specificity; it abounds with wispy, satiny guitar hooks that would gleam if they weren't blunted by a heavier blanket of atmosphere.
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If anything, you could say Apple blunted its initial appeal with a high price and then fixed that by going with the already popular subsidy model.
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Steve Cole, Head of College at Saint Kentigern, told TVNZ the blade was modified in an attempt to make it safe for use, including being blunted.
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The launch of video on Instagram in 2013 blunted its growth, and as with the rest of Twitter, its product added features at a glacial pace.
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The lengthy campaign has not blunted interest or emotions: Each side sees the outcome as having a larger bearing on Europe and even the United States.
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The plot traverses such a wide terrain of suffering—forbidden romance, schoolyard Islamophobia, crippling addiction, untimely death—that the emotional force of events is occasionally blunted.
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Over a bassbin rattling beat by erstwhile Vybz Kartel producer Rvssian, featured guest Bad Bunny moaned the song's hedonistic hook and delivered its blunted opening verse.
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How to Plan for the Unforeseen The financial effects of unexpected events like death or illness can be blunted or controlled with some preparation, advisers say.
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But neither local resistance nor a steep decline in the value of Bitcoin has blunted the demand for practically any space with a reliable power supply.
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But nonpartisan experts say the force of Trump's attacks are blunted by his unwillingness to release his tax information, something presidential nominees have done for decades.
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But the dissonant messaging is intentional: Democrats believe they've finally blunted the GOP argument that they can't impeach the president and legislate at the same time.
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But the report said the impact would likely be blunted on the military, which probably has enough fuel stockpiled to continue normal operations for the immediate future.
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The jump in consumer spending was, however, likely blunted by a sharp drop in exports, in a reversal of the strong growth experienced in the first quarter.
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With age, the immune system's response to inflammation -- a key contributor to asthma -- becomes blunted, making it harder to fight off infections that can trigger asthma exacerbations.
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There's a hint of Aja's old love of shock-value horror in this film, but it's blunted by syrupy fake sentiment, mismanaged twists, and half-baked plotlines.
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He committed a miserly 12 unforced errors, blunted the 140mph first serves whizzing his way and even reduced the normally Zen-like Raonic to venting his frustration.
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Momentum has also been blunted by the trade war with the United States, which has led to tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese exports.
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After he leaves, Dodd-Frank will remain, as will the changes wrought by his stimulus package, which both blunted the recession and transformed education and energy policy.
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Blunted Objects makes affordable cannabis jewelry that doesn't look like you got them at Claire's and these emerald green leaf earrings are popular among Instagram stoner celebrities.
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The United States and the Soviet Union destroyed 2,692 missiles and launchers, which blunted fierce resistance in Europe to the deployment of American missiles on the Continent.
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And yet through all the changes that have blunted the volley, the success rate for net-rushing has remained at least 60 percent and often even higher.
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Our model shows that if they just tested people for H.I.V. in 2011 and 2013, you could have blunted or possibly even avoided the epidemic altogether. Yes.
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The water stored in those massive reservoirs blunted the effects of prolonged drought and protected cities, farms and families across the basin from devastating water shortage impacts.
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"Indeed, it is analogous to a drug treatment – if it's under dosed, the treatment effect will be blunted – and overdosing can cause harmful side effects," he said.
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The virus might well be impossible to contain -- just as the common cold and influenza can't be stopped, but the health and societal impacts can be blunted.
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It showed men with kitchen knives lining up to have their knives blunted by a machine, as well as police examining the knives of a local baker.
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We sit for a moment on benches nearby, guzzling water in the shade while Ransom uses his machete's blunted edge to scrape burrs off his pants and shoes.
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Shares of Hong Kong-listed restaurants tumbled on Monday, with Chinese hotpot chain operators such as Haidilao and Xiabuxiabu leading declines, as concerns over coronavirus blunted investor confidence.
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January was the strongest month for IPOs on record in terms of proceeds, however IPO activity was blunted this week by wild swings in the U.S. stock market.
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Diplomatic efforts by Poland's urbane prime minister may have blunted the charge that Law and Justice has made Poland a pariah, depriving Civic Platform of a crucial weapon.
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"Hidden barriers" erected by some local authorities made it harder for private investors to bid for such projects, which in turn blunted enthusiasm to participate in such schemes.
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Senator Marco Rubio's shaky performance at Saturday's debate gave hope to his rivals that the Floridian's rise after a strong third-place finish in Iowa could be blunted.
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The renewed focus on the former national security adviser has blunted the momentum for Trump generated by the House's passage last week of an ObamaCare repeal bill. Sen.
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Like Rahbek's work, Whitearmor's productions for Yung Lean and Bladee have an shapeshifting quality to them—he deals comfortably in both blunted ambience or gravity-defying bass explorations.
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If the ACA and the DREAMer program are preserved, then substantial chunks of the Obama legacy will remain in place, and the momentum of Trumpism will be blunted.
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Though the introduction of this material in the final chapter conflicts tonally with what precedes it, her description of that loss in terse, blunted prose is deeply moving.
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One wonders whether her own heartbreaking history of abuse, and the simple need for physical and psychic survival, has blunted her insight or capacity for remorse and empathy.
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This year, Sanders' momentum was blunted not by those insiders but by black voters in the South and, following his victory in South Carolina, by the broader electorate.
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But magazines have lost their former position, their dominance blunted by a change in media-consumption habits that has elevated Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube above the printed page.
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He got surprisingly tough reforms to Wall Street passed as well, not to mention a stimulus package that both blunted the recession and transformed education and energy policy.
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Her rise in polling was blunted by an avalanche of attacks from other primary candidates hitting her over her "Medicare for All" proposal, which she has since modified.
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MELBOURNE, Feb 15003 (Reuters) - London copper dropped on Wednesday as falling oil prices blunted appetite for risk, while worries resurfaced over the depth of demand from top consumer China.
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But the reality is that "global warming" massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed.
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The nature of US politics, changing geopolitical conditions, and the inherent delay in other countries' response to US actions have blunted the backlash to President Donald Trump's foreign policy.
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Holder decision came down in 2013 and blunted the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court argued that states previously subjected to Section 5 had been penalized for long enough.
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Vintage postcards tout the town as "the air-conditioned city" and it was dubbed the country's "hay fever haven" until the arrival of antihistamines blunted that appeal, Dierckins said.
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Vintage postcards tout the town as "the air-conditioned city" and it was dubbed the country's "hay fever haven" until the arrival of antihistamines blunted that appeal, Dierckins said.
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She may be more than three times that age now; her progressive instinct may have been blunted by years of scrutiny and compromise in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Washington.
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Under his "Earl Fletcher" alias, Sweatshirt rips through an hour of Lil B, 303 Savage, and 2 Chainz, interspersed with blunted instrumentals from the likes of Black Noi$e.
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Months of political uncertainty have blunted growth in Kenya, East Africa's biggest economy and a key Western ally valued for its relative freedom and stability in a tumultuous region.
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A few weeks ago, a producer called ToTom released an album called El Q, layering Josh Homme's blunted vocal takes over El's apocalyptic bass hits and scorched synth melodies.
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Ohio State got into the bonus with 220:22 left, but every time the Buckeyes appeared to be making a run, Houston blunted the push with a key basket.
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Only when the leaders are caught, they caution, will the attacks be stopped, and at that, only for a while if the appeal of Islamic fundamentalism is not blunted.
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The deal's support from major businesses has blunted much of the criticism that many Republicans in the United States typically bring to debates about efforts to control global warming.
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O'Connor blunted Republican attacks against him when he pledged to vote against Pelosi and has run as a pragmatic leader willing to work with Republicans in Congress and Ohio.
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It now has fewer low-income "scavengers" to sort garbage in big cities, as rising living standards and falling prices of raw materials have blunted recycling incentives, Zhao said.
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However, Johansen blunted the Kings' momentum by deflecting a point shot from defenseman Shea Weber past backup goalie Jhonas Enroth at 11:45, his 13th goal of the season.
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In their view, according to the sources, any pressure the US could place on the Syrian regime would be largely blunted without a US troop presence on the ground.
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In the next three to six weeks, all those areas will start to surge or will have their curve depressed or blunted by the social distancing that's going on.
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But the rebranding of asbestos as chrysotile has helped slow the collapse of the city's economic backbone and blunted calls for a global ban on all forms of asbestos.
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The benchmark 2643-year U.S. Treasuries yield US10YT=RR, which falls when bond prices rise, climbed above 1% as stronger U.S. equities blunted safety-bid moves to fixed income.
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The benchmark 2643-year U.S. Treasuries yield US10YT=RR, which falls when bond prices rise, climbed above 1% as stronger U.S. equities blunted safety-bid moves to fixed income.
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This match was not so one-sided, but Monaco's vaunted attack was blunted by a rock-solid defense that has conceded only two goals in 11 Champions League games.
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But close up, they were meticulously and gorgeously constructed; their rough-hewed, blunted exteriors encased in thoughtful and ergonomic scaffolding, buttresses of padded wiring, canvas boning, industrial-strength crinolines.
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By 2013, the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. concluded that China's success in identifying C.I.A. agents had been blunted — it is not clear how — but the damage had been done.
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With his flowing locks and scythe-like, one-handed backhand, Tsitsipas had proved himself a legitimate threat to win here when he blunted Federer on center stage Sunday night.
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In three of the four, "these individuals' pain responses were markedly blunted, and in one case we couldn't elicit pain at all," says Simon Pimstone, president and CEO of Xenon.
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The pick-six blunted a Tech rally that featured 17 unanswered points after West Virginia stormed to a 28-7 lead in the first quarter and 83-10 at halftime.
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U.S. economic growth slowed less than expected in the second quarter as a surge in consumer spending blunted some of the drag from declining exports and a smaller inventory build.
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The impact of a Nigerian outage would be somewhat blunted because the country primary product is light oil, a grade that's in abundant supply thanks to booming U.S. shale production.
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While knock knock is filled with guests from a wide variety of musical scenes, his take on their work is often rooted in the gliding, blunted sounds of classic rap.
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This allows mobility for moves like kicks, but it also means that strikes to certain areas of the body are banned and that the edges of weapons must be blunted.
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But the advent of artificial heating and cooling has blunted these effects, and as temperatures rise, air conditioning will likely become more common, allowing people to adapt to warmer climates.
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This one, however, found that it initially blunted the emotional impact, just as it made "Westworld" harder to get into as its rules were being set in the early going.
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Once their interrogations have been repeatedly blunted, most will content themselves with a few minutes of raised voices and sanctimonious talking points, hoping to make the highlight reel at MSNBC.
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Solid consumer spending blunted some of the drag on the economy from weak business investment to limit the slowdown in growth to a 256% annualized rate in the third quarter.
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Solid consumer spending blunted some of the drag on the economy from weak business investment to limit the slowdown in growth to a 1.9% annualized rate in the third quarter.
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All of that was blunted, though, when reporters seated in the back of Clinton's campaign plane got wind that the FBI was reviewing new emails related to Clinton's personal server.
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In past elections the impact of extremist right-leaning parties has been largely blunted by a political system that for more than a century has resulted in governance by coalition.
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Parker, whose adaptation of the Nat Turner Rebellion sold for a record $17.5 million after a rapturous reception at Sundance, has seen his Oscar hopes blunted after addressing 1999 rape allegation.
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Iowa's FUBAR situation might have temporarily blunted the impact of a terrible Biden performance, giving him more of a chance to get off the mat before New Hampshire's primary next Tuesday.
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The bizarre day that blunted Clinton's good mood Aides and strategists said it was too early to gauge what the political fallout will be for down-ballot candidates of either party.
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I'm teaching at Georgetown Law School but I'll try to find a way to contribute to make sure that the worst excesses of Trump are blunted and democratic realities are upheld.
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His crucial 12-yard scramble on third-and-11 with 53 minutes left blunted a furious fourth-quarter rally by the Saints from a 24-point deficit with 8:54 left.
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And while each project's history played a role in drumming up media attention and viewer sampling, the results appeared blunted in part by, for many, creative disappointment after the initial rush.
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Quite a lot, obviously, but safeguards are in place: no alcohol is served, the blades of the axes are blunted and security measures are read out to participants when they arrive.
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However, the enthusiasm for his proposal is somewhat blunted by Trump's earlier announcement of a tax hike on American consumers in the form of a big tariff on Canadian softwood lumber.
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The Guttmacher Institute's Nash said if abortion rights supporters had mounted a stronger legal attack against earlier regulations, it might have blunted the momentum that led to the 2013 Texas law.
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Even when, in A.D. 43, they finally decided on an invasion, the advance of the Roman legions was ultimately blunted by the increasingly inhospitable landscape and the savagery of the natives.
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The 2015 slowdown in the United States' biggest trading partner — China — may have blunted domestic growth in the last year, but even that hardly threw the American economy into a tailspin.
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Jorge Sampaoli's team stuttered through qualifying, its fearsome attack blunted surprisingly — and troublingly — easily until Lionel Messi conjured a hat trick in Ecuador to ensure his country would go to Russia.
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Determined to legalize same-sex marriage, the governor won over skeptical advocates, enlisted top Republican donors to help, blunted resistance from the Catholic Church and lobbied reluctant legislators one by one.
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Buttigieg took heavy fire in the last debate for his lack of political experience, particularly from moderate rival Amy Klobuchar, and it might have blunted some of his momentum from Iowa.
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But so far, Democrats have blunted Republicans' attacks on the impeachment drive by beginning their inquiry with witnesses whose track records as nonpartisan, dedicated public servants are difficult to tear down.
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How they got from loathing to loving is less a story about growing tolerance and diminishing racism, and more about the ways that Dr. King's legacy has been scrubbed and blunted.
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They are picky eaters, with squat and blunted heads evolved to accommodate a diet of fish eggs laid on surfaces near or on reefs—features that make their faces adorably turtle-like.
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The Mashable review of Season 1 pointed out the similarities between Carrey and his character, two megastars whose inner life is overshadowed by the emotionally blunted comedic characters that made them famous.
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Gross domestic product increased at a 2.1% annualized rate in the second quarter as a surge in consumer spending blunted some of the drag from declining exports and a smaller inventory build.
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"Clearly, the recent rise in oil prices has blunted the downtrend in rig counts, showing some signs of new drilling opportunities," said Chris Jarvis, analyst at Caprock Risk Management in Frederick, Maryland.
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Wall Street's S&P 500 and Nasdaq had both hit record highs after reassuring comments from Texas Instruments about global chip demand blunted the impact of weak earnings from Boeing and Caterpillar.
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It means that NJPW will be fine, even thrive, but that their overseas expansion, so attached to The Elite (especially Omega) as the faces of the effort, is going to be blunted.
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People familiar with the business said a combination of outdated trading technology, a late effort to court quantitative funds and overall fee pressure on the bank's key clients has blunted Goldman's edge.
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In Forrester's telling, the philosophers in Rawls's milieu aimed to engage with the radical challenges of the 1960s and 1970s, but tended to formulations that blunted the sharpest criticisms of American life.
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And they flesh out an ensemble that includes the rapper Alfred (or Paper Boi, played by Brian Tyree Henry), the blunted sidekick-philosopher Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) and the straightwoman Van (Zazie Beetz).
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The calls for major assistance to large companies from the federal government have risen as the coronavirus pandemic has hit the United States and blunted economic growth, particularly in the travel sector.
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In 2009, Congress provided education funding as part of the stimulus, which blunted budget cuts, but relying on legislation to help states will most likely mean that help will arrive too late.
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"It is likely the brain's blunted response to repeated acts of dishonesty reflects a reduced emotional response to these acts," lead study author and neuroscience researcher Neil Garrett said in a statement.
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The intrigue begins in the London Library in 1986, as the emotionally blunted research assistant Roland Michell finds and filches two drafts of a letter written by a famous 19th-century poet.
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Kavanaugh also blunted Democratic counter-narratives that he is a harsh ideologue by frequently praising his family, often at the prompting of friendly GOP senators and idealizing his youth in suburban Maryland.
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Cabot's standard formula is as soothing as ever, but with her voice's personality and charm blunted and her characters flattened, it's hard to see just what the point of this book is.
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This kind of stage-tested, studio-documented proof that "rock" and "R&B" weren't mutually exclusive—funk patterns blunted by arena scale, soulful singing intensified by virtuosic shredding—will remain his greatest achievement.
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But after stripping away what they consider Elise's mystic veneer, prosecutors described the sex acts in more blunted, familiar terms: erotic massages, genital touching, manual masturbation, oral sex, vaginal sex, and anal penetration.
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COPPER SCRAP: The effect of Chinese curbs on scrap metal imports introduced this year will be blunted by a rise in domestic scrap production, Wood Mackenzie consultants Yanting Zhou and Sifang Liu said.
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With his focus on fighting inequality, Schulz is trying to sharpen the SPD's policy edge, blunted by spending seven of the last 11 years sharing power as junior coalition partners with Merkel's conservatives.
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Chris Christie -- and Rubio himself acknowledged that fallout from the debate blunted momentum from his strong third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, leading to a disappointing fifth-place showing in New Hampshire.
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The negative impact on the dollar from the pause in the Fed's interest-rate-hiking cycle has been blunted somewhat by a cautious European Central Bank faced with a struggling euro zone economy.
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The S&P 2452.60 and Nasdaq had both hit record highs on Wednesday after reassuring comments from Texas Instruments about global chip demand blunted the impact of weak earnings from Boeing and Caterpillar.
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It was not unusual to arrive at the office in the morning to find a haystack of memos in his outbox, and a desk strewn with blunted pencils and exhausted Wite-Out bottles.
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Fiscal stimulus financed by borrowing provides similar benefits, but these could be blunted if consumers think taxes must eventually go up to pay off the accumulated debts—a problem helicopter money flies around.
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The struggle to clear Kate Spade excess inventory blunted the impact of new collections from Nicola Glass, a Gucci and Michael Kors alumnus, hired by Tapestry last year to refresh the brand's designs.
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In an election that George Bush won by 537 votes in Florida, the scandal blunted the vote for Al Gore and kept Clinton on the shelf as the best campaigner for the Democrats.
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The outpouring of criticism blunted Trump's recent efforts to appeal to his Republican supporters, whom he will need by his side as he confronts divided government and an accelerating Russia investigation next year.
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Trump's message has only been slightly blunted by a turbulent stock market that lost all it had gained this year over the course of a few days before bumping up again on Tuesday.
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And ours was the colonialism of a special type, where the policies, the social policies that were pursued were such that they held the majority of the people back and blunted their capabilities.
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But if a major ally like the European Union decides to actively fight U.S. sanctions, it will set a pattern of opposition and risks demonstrating that U.S. coercive economic power can be blunted.
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Now with U.S. production, that's really blunted the impact in the market of geopolitics, but I do think we really do need to pay close attention to what the Iranian response will be.
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Ellen Wald, an oil analyst and fellow at the Atlantic Council, said the impact on global oil prices should be "blunted" for the 180-day length of the waivers to the eight countries.
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He helped the Mountaineers get off to a quick 17-7 lead and blunted a 6-0 Kansas run with five straight points off buckets at the 8:31 and 7:58 marks.
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French President Emmanuel Macron may have blunted December's "yellow vests" protests somewhat by giving in to many of the demonstrators' demands, but he is likely to face further confrontations with an increasingly angry populace.
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For starters, the cast was simply extraordinary, even more so considering the central premise -- that many of them were machines, who could simply be reset -- significantly blunted the drama, especially in the early stages.
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By training the immune system to recognize heroin molecules as a threat, the vaccine could prevent the drug from crossing the blood-brain barrier and blunted some of its effects, without harmful side effects.
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Monsanto's shares are down about 21400 percent from a year earlier amid a steep commodities price downturn and declining farm incomes that have blunted demand for crop inputs such as seeds, fertilizers and pesticides.
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The move by U.S. President Donald Trump sent commodities, stocks and other assets higher because of optimism the effects of the trade war, already being felt in economies across the world, will be blunted.
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Furthermore, to the extent the implementation and enforcement of any legislative mandate on choice is left to an executive agency, such as the Department of Health and Human Services, its impact could be blunted.
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The new Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime replaces a thicket of indirect central and state levies that critics argue have blunted economic competitiveness and hobbled efforts to lift more people out of poverty.
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That blunted version of the ban, however, has also been blocked by federal judges who say that Trump and his team's language indicate that it is still a veiled attempt at discrimination against Muslims.
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In recent weeks, Taliban fighters battled their way into the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, in an attack that was only blunted after hundreds of Afghan commandos were airlifted into the area.
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Worries about the inhumanity of capital punishment were also blunted in part because this was purely hypothetical and in part because of the inhumanity he exhibited those long years with his penchant for violence.
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U.S. stocks climbed on Friday, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hitting their highest levels in two weeks, as strong U.S. jobs growth blunted the impact of an escalating U.S.-China trade dispute.
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Debenhams and Mothercare have both issued profit warnings, John Lewis said on Thursday that higher costs and tough competition had blunted the benefits of solid Christmas sales, while House of Fraser saw its sales fall.
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Beijing is surely watching closely as a deadline for proposed American tariffs on China draws near, but any concern has been blunted by just how well the Chinese economy has been doing in recent months.
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News of the meeting involving the younger Mr. Trump, Mr. Kushner and Mr. Manafort blunted whatever good feeling the president's team had after his trip to Europe for the Group of 20 economic summit meeting.
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In Florida, Republicans blunted the impact of the voter-approved amendment by passing a law that required former felons to pay all fines, restitution and court costs before being deemed to have completed their sentences.
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Israel has blunted the military capabilities of Hamas with a series of counter-measures: the Iron Dome air defense system against short-range rockets and a system for detecting and destroying cross-border guerrilla tunnels.
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Earlier in the day, Samsung reported a preliminary quarterly profit increase of 5.2 percent to 14.8 trillion won, its slowest growth in over a year as weak smartphone sales blunted the impact of record chip earnings.
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First, by allowing Hicks -- one of the most important witnesses to Trump's efforts to obstruct justice, as detailed in the Mueller report -- to testify behind closed doors, the Judiciary Committee blunted the impact of her testimony.
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It welcomed plans to recognise EU tested and licensed products, but said the EU needed to show similar flexibility, echoing warnings from other industry bodies that government contingency plans could be blunted unless the EU cooperates.
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Although the global commodity price collapse has blunted growth in Uganda and other sub-Saharan African countries Gouldie said the telecoms business was more resilient and would not take a blow from the wider economic slump.
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"A range of evidence suggests that circadian rhythms are less robust in people vulnerable to depression and bipolar disorders, and we have shown that depression is indeed associated with a blunted circadian reward rhythm," she said.
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One day after the sixth anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that blunted the Voting Rights Act, candidates could have been asked about their plans to fight voter suppression and its effects on communities of color.
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Not only does New York-based hip-hop artist Hooliganradguitar5 have one of the best artist names I've seen, maybe ever, but his blunted and emotional tracks perfectly capture the New York City after-hours vibe.
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The DNC's ability to use its opposition research in surprise against Trump has been blunted, and some media outlets lampooned Clinton—not a bad outcome for an operation with little risk or cost for the perpetrators.
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Over the years, I'd come to realize that many of my drunk icons had actually gotten sober eventually, or tried to, and I went looking for proof that recovery had not blunted or destroyed their creativity.
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Worries that the sapping heat that has enveloped France over the last week or so might ruin the occasion, draining the players, can probably be set aside: It is warm, but the edge has been blunted.
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But Mr. Draghi blunted the impact of the change when he said during the news conference that, of course, the central bank can reduce rates at any time and is prepared to do so if needed.
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Before Jeffries and Schiff, there had been a conga line of similarly ambitious, talented lawmakers who saw their rise blunted by the entrenched trio of House Democratic leaders: Pelosi, Hoyer and Jim Clyburn of South Carolina.
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Ronald Reagan, by contrast, really was a much more conservative politician than the past three Republican presidents, but his ability to command the uniform support of the GOP in 1980 blunted Jimmy Carter's charges of extremism.
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The former has blunted the relative attractiveness of government bonds (prices in the secondary market have risen above what investors will receive in principal when bonds mature) while the latter has cheapened assets denominated in foreign currencies.
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Rising interest rates, a booming stock market and better investor sentiment boosted the group's U.S. business, while improving Asian markets meant clients were more willing to take risks after a slowdown in late 23.55 blunted trading appetite.
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U.S. gross domestic product increased at a 21.2379% annualised rate in the second quarter, above forecast of 21.2375%, as a surge in consumer spending blunted some of the drag from declining exports and a smaller inventory build.
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U.S. gross domestic product increased at a 2.1% annualized rate in the second quarter, above forecast of 1.8%, as a surge in consumer spending blunted some of the drag from declining exports and a smaller inventory build.
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U.S. gross domestic product increased at a 0.173% annualised rate in the second quarter, above forecast of 20.17%, as a surge in consumer spending blunted some of the drag from declining exports and a smaller inventory build.
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The one exception to these sympathetic, evocative depictions, however, is a painting titled "American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)," in which the Weismans' faces are slightly blurred and blunted to appear similar to the statues behind them.
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U.S. gross domestic product increased at a 2.1% annualised rate in the second quarter, above forecast of 1.8%, as a surge in consumer spending blunted some of the drag from declining exports and a smaller inventory build.
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It's possible that if the president had spoken more forcefully on race, it might have blunted some of the bigotry that fueled Mr. Trump's rise, or at least provided a compelling alternative to his vision of race.
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But by Professor Pipes's own account, the State Department, headed by Alexander M. Haig, shut the N.S.C. out of most important decisions, and Professor Pipes's relative inexperience in Washington infighting was seen to have blunted his effectiveness.
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Once the military-industrial-Avengers complex took over with "Iron Man," then a lot of that interesting texture and politics and psychology gets smoothed over, and we get a much more streamlined and carefully blunted corporate product.
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The blunted trio who once called on their listeners to "drop out of life with bong in hand" make their surprise return after over a decade in a puff of smoke on this, the highest of holidays.
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A federal court blunted the impact of the law in 223, ordering the state to give a free ID to any voter who asked for one, but the state's implementation of that order was criticized as ineffective.
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Alternatively, if she decides she does want to talk about it publicly, will she feel the power of her story has been blunted by all of the adults who saw fit to tell it before she could?
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Leading up to the launch of Huang's World on VICELAND, we've been leaving a breadcrumb trail of tasty deleted scenes, from Eddie eating fish sperm in Italy to a blunted interview with a sugarcane farmer in Jamaica.
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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange main indexes were up nearly 1 percent in late trading on Wednesday, displaying confidence in a veteran prime minister who has overseen a humming economy and blunted various security threats, including from Syria.
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Despite renewed attention about voter suppression in Georgia, concerns about voting rights in the state go back much further, especially in the years since the Supreme Court blunted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in 2013.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The latest health check of leading European Union banks failed to end worries about profitability in the sector and the omission of risks such as the effect of negative interest rates and Brexit blunted its impact.
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Those who had a hand in writing the bill say "loss aversion" — the outrage consumers will feel over being removed from an existing insurance plan — would be blunted by the generosity of the new American single-payer system.
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Federer's best chance is to avoid the kind attritional baseline rallies that have blunted his natural attacking flair in the past, so expect one of the game's great innovators to arrive with some new tricks up his sleeve.
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Sumner's artwork here is mostly as broad and plain as a woodcut, black lines augmented with nothing but pale sand-yellow and sky blue; he draws Wyld and her family with circular heads and blunted triangles for noses.
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Many analysts say China will be loath to let the yuan depreciate or use it as a tool in the trade war, and Chinese President Xi Jinping's somewhat conciliatory speech last Tuesday also blunted speculation about yuan depreciation.
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Another factor that has blunted the dollar's momentum this week is a pull-back in benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yields from recent highs, said Satoshi Okagawa, senior global markets analyst for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Singapore.
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Their efforts blunted voter discontent at lack of jobs and farm distress by portraying the opposition as weak and indecisive at best and at worst, appeasing minority Muslims and arch foe Pakistan, to deftly exploit national security fears.
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The lyrics long for death (as one might expect) but are written so poetically that the edge is blunted, and the overall effect is far less mopey than you may expect from a band named after ceremonial suicide.
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Dahlan, 55, casts himself as someone to shake up the old order and bridge the differences between Fatah and the Islamist group Hamas, a rupture that has splintered Palestinian unity and blunted efforts towards peace with the Israelis.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks climbed on Friday, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hitting their highest levels in two weeks, as strong U.S. jobs growth blunted the impact of an escalating U.S.-China trade dispute.
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Much of the impact of the whole thing is unfortunately blunted by the fact that RT and NTV are state-run media and are therefore expected to exert their power to present a "truth" that supports the state agenda.
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Democrats, appalled by the fallout from his letter to Congress, have argued that Comey's disclosure in the final days leading up to the election was a massive break from bureau policy that blunted Clinton's path to the White House.
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On the other hand, a principal argument against the tax reform will be that it helps the rich, but that is blunted by what they lose on the health side, so the case for the tax reform is strengthened.
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It also said the bankruptcy of Russian carrier Transaero, resulting in fewer A380 deliveries, had helped it to comply, while other aid had been blunted by the passage of time - an argument that has previously been rejected by Washington.
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This is why Ms. Hanson-Young's case is crucial: If there are consequences for trying to shut down or shame women on the grounds of sexuality, even if it's just vehement, broad public disapprobation, the weapon will be blunted.
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Yet despite his propensity for political incorrectness, on Thursday he came in for praise, the memory of earlier embarrassments perhaps blunted by the sheer stamina and longevity of the foreign-born prince as he gets closer to 100. Mrs.
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The price of oil CLc1, one of Canada's major exports, has climbed 36 percent over the past year to nearly $67 a barrel but the benefit for the Canadian dollar has been blunted by an uncertain outlook for trade.
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The situation is akin to what happened last year at Carrier, when the company blunted criticism from Mr. Trump, then the president-elect, by keeping 800 jobs in the United States rather than offshoring them to Mexico as planned.
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Since then, in "The Tree of Life" (2011) and "To the Wonder" (2012), the impulse to seek out grace and loveliness—in weather, in women, and in rhapsodic flashes of the past—has all but blunted the dramatic urge.
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It also said the bankruptcy of Russian carrier Transaero, resulting in fewer A380 deliveries, had helped to limit the impact of subsidies, while other aid had been blunted by the passage of time - an argument previously rejected by Washington.
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"Genius" is a word whose impact has been blunted by the hysterical, often breathless tone of internet discourse, in which everything is perfect and iconic, everyone is a legend, and the line between irony and earnest enthusiasm is forever blurring.
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The default on about $400 million of obligations owed by the Government Development Bank on May 1 was in part blunted by emergency measures undertaken by the governor's office to transfer public agency accounts to commercial banks on the island.
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Schulz has responded with a focus on fighting inequality, trying to sharpen the SPD's policy edge, which has been blunted by spending seven of the last 11 years sharing power as junior coalition partners with Merkel's CDU at the national level.
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Still, one factor that has blunted the dollar's momentum this week is a pull-back in benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yields from their recent highs, said Satoshi Okagawa, senior global markets analyst for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Singapore.
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Yes as much adoration was deservedly given to Blu for his honest and blunted raps—even the most mediocre beats would have allowed Blu's words to hit reasonably hard—his stories wouldn't resonate quite as strongly without the right production.
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Any negative impact on the dollar from the pause in the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest-rate-hiking cycle has been blunted by a cautious European Central Bank faced with a struggling euro zone economy, leaving the exchange rate treading water.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth slowed less than expected in the second quarter as a surge in consumer spending blunted some of the drag from declining exports and a smaller inventory build, which could further allay concerns about the economy's health.
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" The internal mood, per The Times: "News of the meeting involving the younger Mr. Trump, Mr. Kushner and Mr. Manafort blunted whatever good feeling the president's team had after his trip to Europe for the Group of 20 economic summit meeting.
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Meanwhile, the young playwright stumbles into an acting company in desperate and sudden need of a hit, while immediately being drawn to the proprietor's daughter (Olivia DeJonge), whose own artistic ambitions are blunted by the societal mores of the time.
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It's a wild hour tour through, what RP Boo says sounds like "pure darkness," but to me sounds like blunted tracks from all corners of the constellation of footwork—from jazzy numbers that float around to crushing sub-bass abstraction.
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I'm a nurse, and my husband, Daniel, is in medical school, so we are both well aware of the risks involved in a high order multiple birth, so our excitement was somewhat blunted with fear as the reality set in.
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"So if it's not a ban on possession, if we're not going to recover these firearms from civilian owners, the effects of a ban now would be blunted by the fact that there's so many of them out there," he said.
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A conservative critic of the Obama administration, like Casey Mulligan, author of The Redistribution Recession, would likely argue that this residual reflects the malign influence of Obama-era taxes and welfare state expansion, which have blunted people's incentive to work.
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Klobuchar's (and others') focus on Buttigieg in the final New Hampshire debate, days before voting, likely helped give her a boost in New Hampshire and seems to have blunted the former South Bend mayor's momentum following his surprise win in Iowa.
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The decision of his party to stand down in Tory-held seats has blunted its insurgent message—the 17% it scores in our poll is lower than the 25% notched up by its forerunner, the UK Independence Party, in 2015.
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Publication of the U.S. Treasury department's "oligarchs' list" had threatened to prompt a sell-off in Russian assets but its impact was blunted by the United States saying on Monday that it would not immediately impose new sanctions on Russia.
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Still, the ECB will have blunted tools to enforce the new rules as the most severe punishment for non-compliance will be a public reprimand, according to the code, long in the making and approved unanimously by the 25-member Governing Council.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank embarked on a rearguard action to win over skeptical investors on Friday, a day after chief Mario Draghi unveiled a new stimulus package but blunted its impact by suggesting the ECB would not cut interest rates again.
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Though the Pats' 30-7 third-quarter lead was blunted slightly by a Charlie Whitehurst touchdown pass, the 33-13 final score hardly muffles the message the Pats sent to the rest of the league: Yep, we're still pretty good at this.
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TOKYO, March 9 (Reuters) - Japan's benchmark Nikkei index fell to a one-week low on Wednesday morning as investors took profits amid yen strength that continued to squeeze exporters, with broader sentiment blunted by slipping oil prices and concerns over China's economy.
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This is mildly funny, but the humor is blunted by other, morbid elements: In addition to the penis holds, the panels also have holes all over resembling bodily orifices that turn out to be eye and nose sockets cast from human skulls.
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Don't forget to drink Even though you may not think you sweat as much exercising outdoors in the cold, you are still losing a considerable amount of body fluid, and research shows that your thirst response may be particularly blunted in cold weather.
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The center said Trump's tax cuts would drive new activity at first, but that the impact would be blunted in later years by rising deficits, forcing more federal borrowing to finance the tax cuts and driving up borrowing costs for the private sector.
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CHICAGO, July 21.13 (Reuters) - U.S. corn export sales plunged to a more than three-year low last week, according to U.S. government data released on Friday, as rising competition from massive harvests in Brazil and Argentina blunted demand from the world's top exporter.
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I recall interviewing Keys in Paris at the French Open in 2013 after she lost to Monica Puig in the second round in damp, heavy conditions that blunted her phenomenal power and left her spraying ground strokes to all the wrong places.
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But the power of Steyer's money was partially blunted late in his campaign by the entrance of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has spent more than $500 million on ads in a few short months, effectively watering down Steyer's omnipresence.
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Although the tax overhaul promised to increase take-home pay, its effects may have been blunted for several reasons, including the time it took for the Internal Revenue Service to produce updated withholding tables and for payroll managers to adjust their systems.
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That famous image by Mr. Edgerton, a professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. who died in 1990, shows a drooping bullet with a slightly blunted tip just after it has pierced a sheet of plexiglass; he captured it with a strobe light.
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But analysts noted that much of the rainfall predicted by the BOM was expected to arrive in June, two months after the start of the season, meaning its impact could be blunted in parts of east Australia that have been suffering from dry conditions.
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But Hu Teh-wei, an expert on China's tobacco industry at the University of California, Berkeley, said that impact had now been blunted and that significant tax hikes were needed to seriously deter smokers, a prospect he said was not currently under consideration in China.
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That's also the uniting principle of Seimei's new Noisey Mix, dipping and diving between dizzy house newcomers like Peggy Gou, blunted rap tracks, classic trance anthem, and a few choice cuts from the TREKKIE stable, generally hovering somewhere in the realm of beautifully blissed.
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Whether he could have defeated President Richard Nixon that year is uncertain, but he might have blunted the incumbent's Southern strategy that pitted black against white, rich against poor, labor against elites — and diverted the country from the path that has led to Trumpian populism.
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After several rounds of deadlock in the parliament, India rolled out the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on July 1, replacing a thicket of indirect central and state levies that critics argue have blunted economic competitiveness and hobbled efforts to lift more out of poverty.
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The deal could give Mr. Cruz a better chance of consolidating the anti-Trump vote in Indiana the way he did in Wisconsin — although Mr. Kasich might have blunted the intended effect with his statement on Monday that Indiana voters should still support him.
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In the interim, there's a tremendous amount of bloodshed -- blunted in its impact by the fact that some of it feels gratuitous, and a lot of it directed toward characters (a term used loosely, in some places) about which there's little reason to care.
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Three alcoholic drinks will bring a person's blood alcohol level to a level of approximately 218 percent, which can impair the ability to rapidly focus vision, lower alertness, and decrease coordination to the point that steering becomes difficult and response to driving emergencies becomes blunted.
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Photos by Pablo Vasquez 4/20 in LA. It sounds like the premise of an abandoned Harold and Kumar sequel, or the top prize in a High Times sweepstakes, the kind of fantasy conceived and crystallized by blunted teens in cities devoid of dispensaries.
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It would, perhaps, be understandable if those condemned to a life as cannon fodder resented this state of affairs, if they felt that such a drastic contrast blunted their enjoyment and soured the Premier League's appeal, but there is no bubbling sense of mutiny.
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The underwater discoveries of the Nautilus, a wondrous submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo (James Mason), may be the main attraction, but Douglas's robust performance as a master whaler offered early proof that the force of his personality couldn't be blunted by spectacle.
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Tunisia's effort, wrenching as it is, may stand as the one bright spot in a region where the promise of the Arab Spring — for democracy and accountability — has been blunted in country after country: new authoritarianism in Egypt, civil war in Syria, chaos in Libya.
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In a book or on screens, a painting appears invincibly itself, but when hung high or low, surrounded by plenty of space or little, near works that harmonise or works that clash, clustered by theme or chronologically arranged, a painting's impact can be enhanced or blunted.
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Although at the strategic level American military power is still uncontested, its major adversaries' anti-access/area denial (A2500/AD) investment has blunted its technology edge to such an extent that it can no longer count on local dominance in the early stages of a conflict.
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The stiff dialogue, garish special effects, and the almost whimsical tone make for yet another frustrating reintroduction to director Alexandre Aja, who's blunted the gleeful nastiness of his early horror movies (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes) into tonally confused, baffling projects like Horns and Louis Drax.
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That energy will be blunted temporarily by the flight of well-educated whites from Trump, but the absence of economic common ground between Hillary-voting white moderates and the party's poorer, minority base means that her temporary coalition is likely to fracture first along racial lines.
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Because the state party was ill-prepared for the caucus and used a faulty app that significantly delayed the reporting of results, much of Buttigieg's momentum out of the state was blunted and, while money followed the win, it wasn't as substantial as top campaign aides expected.
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But it's likely that if Sanders comes in well behind Biden in South Carolina and finds his momentum blunted, Warren could find herself playing a critical role in shaping the outcome of a race that could well end with a contested battle on the Democratic convention floor.
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The image is cropped to fit the headboard and flow its way down to the base, a blunted waterfall of a painting, and the finishings are personalized; maybe a detail is accentuated — a color, a texture, with different trims and upholstering on the bed itself to match.
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The potential illumination that could come from seeing the great legal mind of a young Thurgood Marshall at work is blunted and muted, and in the end, it feels like we've learned little to nothing about the man who would someday become America's first black Supreme Court Justice.
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Songs like "7am," which could pass for a more blunted sequel to Soulja Boy's "Zan With That Lean," and "Top," which has the inescapable hook of "who the fuck are youuuuu," feel like fun house riffs on trap staples, held together above all by Uzi's deceptively versatile voice.
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In all, the 2628 OPEC members covered by the agreement achieved 28503 million b/d in cuts in January, according to the Platts analysis — taking just more than a North-Dakota's worth of production off the market, though increases by the exempt countries have blunted some of the impact.
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Injuries to fast bowlers Mohammed Shami and Mohit Sharma have blunted India's attack for the five-match series and on the eve of the first contest, Dhoni spoke of the need for someone to step up to the mark if one of his bowlers had an off day.
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The White Sox cut the deficit to two in the seventh inning on run-scoring hits from Tim Anderson and Omar Narvaez, but the Rangers blunted that when Brett Nicholas drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the inning to push the Texas lead back to 9-7.
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So whether he's releasing blunted hip-hop beats as Dabrye, searing acid tracks as James T. Cotton, or ragga jungle as half of Soundmurder and SK-1 (with Todd Osborn), you can be confident that whatever Mullinix is paying homage to will be treated with the utmost respect and reverence.
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We may never know for sure whether the lower placement of the more "country-friendly" version of "Old Town Road" blunted its Single of the Year prospects, or whether CMA Award voters simply don't think the song is country enough to compete outside of the Musical Event of the Year category.
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Ellen R. Wald, a senior fellow at the Global Energy Center of the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based research group, said in a telephone news briefing about the sanctions that any price increases could be further blunted by the additional supplies anticipated next year from other exporters, including the United States.
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The strike in Kuwait, which was seen as limiting oil supply in the short term, and markets' expectation that the European Central Bank would not announce a surprise policy shift this week blunted the impact of the Doha meeting, said Richard Cochinos, head of European G10 FX strategy in London.
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Some of the play's sexual frankness has been blunted by Iranian government censors — in a pivotal scene, Willy's mistress shows up in his hotel room wearing a hat and a belted red raincoat, rather than a nightgown — and its themes of striving and sacrifice seem distant from Rana and Emad's life.
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If Trump's rise is blunted on Super Tuesday—most likely by losing Texas to home-state Senator Cruz—Rubio will have enough breathing room to revive his campaign in the remaining states, many of them theoretically friendlier to his style of politics, and could score a big win in Florida on March 15.
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But Congress, despite the efforts of Democrats, still has not done so, leaving little federal oversight of voting in the US. Voting rights advocates say that the striking down of Section 13b — and the resultant declawing of Section 5 — blunted one of the strongest measures that held jurisdictions accountable for their proposed voting laws.
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Although foreigners may assume that the momentous changes sweeping across India — education, economic growth and a technological boom — have blunted, if not erased, ancient caste prejudices, "Ants Among Elephants" gives readers an unsettling and visceral understanding of how discrimination, segregation and stereotypes have endured throughout the second half of the 20th century and today.
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Ayer also isn't blind to what Waller needs to be to succeed: he undermines all his supervillains by giving them secret sentimental sides and soft hearts, but she's the full-on murdering sociopath who's colder than all of them, and she gives the film a spine and a dark edge that isn't blunted by comic relief.
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In hindsight, that it came on the same day the US formally pointed the finger at Russia for election meddling and WikiLeaks doled out the emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, seems relevant, although it cannot be argued that the other two stories blunted the attention that was paid to or the public backlash from those tapes.
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Age has blunted most of Totti's barbs but this is still a man who was kicked out of Euro 2004 for spitting in Christian Poulsen's face, who attempted to maim Mario Balotelli in a cup final for funsies, and who inspired a YouTube compilation entitled, "Francesco Totti – The Bad Side," which is exactly what you think it is.
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The season premiere accidentally aired four hours early on DirecTV; the second episode leaked online before its premiere; and photos from the third episode appeared online before it droppedHowever, rampant piracy has seemingly not blunted too much of the show's momentum, with Game of Thrones continually breaking ratings records (even as it has arguably become somewhat of a huge mess, narratively speaking).
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Injuries—his back, mostly—blunted many of his tools, meaning that swing of his was often all he had left in the shed once he got to St. Louis late during the 753 season In the end, it adds up to a player who, with a career 72.6 WAR (Baseball Reference), compares favourably to his peers—his peers being outfielders of recent vintage.
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But there have been signs of wavering grass-roots support, including a recent announcement by Greg Kinman, a gun enthusiast with more than four million followers on YouTube, that he was cutting ties with the N.R.A. The turmoil of recent months has already stoked fear among some Republicans that the N.R.A.'s political potency could be blunted heading into the 2020 elections.
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The challenges for Democrats But the impact of this demographic change has been blunted by consistently low turnout for nonwhite voters in Texas, where Democrats and other liberal groups have lacked the funds to conduct meaningful voter drives for years, and GOP-passed laws, from strict voter identification requirements to limits on voter registration drives, have erected hurdles to greater minority participation.
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For the most part, that plan worked: Liverpool's fullbacks will have rarely had a less effective afternoon from open play; stymied by United's back three, the league leader's fabled forward line could play only in fits and starts, swarming for brief spells but blunted for much of the game; often, Liverpool's defense seemed hurried in possession, chased and pressed by United's forwards.
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As it happens, Trump's team of Breitbart-dwelling goons has been clamoring for an excuse to retread Bill Clinton sex scandals for more than two decades; but whatever force the accusations against Clinton might have carried is blunted by the fact that Bill's not running for president, and that Trump is proving himself guilty of every Clinton sin alleged in the right's bill of particulars.
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Some critics have said that commercial exhibitions, such as a two-day pop-up "immersive experience" in 2017 to celebrate 10 years of the reality TV show "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," or the coming "Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh" blockbuster, a global touring show produced by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and the IMG Group (where Mr. Eliasch has been a director), have blunted the gallery's cutting-edge brand.
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