His greatest achievement may be to have defanged the generals. |
Nevertheless, thousands of lives and billions of dollars have been spent deposing a defanged dictatorship that posed no immediate threat to us. |
John Monks, general secretary of the European Trades Union Congress, complains that Britain has defanged the charter. |
It certainly doesn't help that these tracks, marginal compositions to begin with, seem to have been completely defanged by glossy production techniques. |
Luckily, these pre-summit initiatives were defanged and something quite different took place in Geneva instead. |
Modem cruise ships nowadays casually pass close by these perils of the sea, now well marked, and defanged by 21st-century navigational aids. |