Curiously, the Russian blogosphere s response was largely muted.

The Summit of Muted Intentions

Yet the international pressure is muted.

Both factors were more muted in developing economies.

This implies that consumption growth will remain muted for some time.

But the tone of too many of these statements has been muted.

Debates and protests about globalization have been muted since last September's terrorist attacks.

The sentence was met by a muted response online, with many just exchanging links to news stories without much commentary on it.

While the announcement incited Indian protests, they were relatively muted compared to the past.

Regrettably, one channel of greater integration has been muted the free movement of labor.

The African media s response to the massacres and rapes in Darfur has been equally muted.

Asians have watched the formerly triumphant euro s Greek crisis with a muted sense of vindication.

So far, anti American rhetoric has been remarkably muted in the uprisings sweeping the Middle East.

Moreover, China s surging growth will echo throughout much of Asia, including (in somewhat muted form) in Japan.

The muted effect of oil prices on global growth should not have come as a complete surprise.

With Merkel, the substance of Germany s foreign policy will change little, but the assertive style will be muted.

These same fears are also restraining business investment, which has remained muted, despite extremely low interest rates for many companies.

The response from both has been muted (as it has from Thailand, which also has strong economic ties with Myanmar).

Even social democracy, which, particularly in Scandinavia, was an excellent regulator of capitalism, found itself muted in the controversy between Keynesians and monetarists, and, throughout the developed world, the monetarists won.

The global community s initial reaction to the Senate vote was muted somewhat by signs that the administration and key senators wanted to build bipartisan support for eventual reconsideration of the Treaty.

Open protests against Tepco as operator and the government as monitor had been relatively muted until recently, but this has now changed.

The second surprise in 2005 was that while oil prices increased far more than expected, the economic dampening effect seemed somewhat muted in most places, at least until the last part of the year.

The second surprise in 2005 was that while oil prices increased far more than expected, the economic dampening effect seemed somewhat muted in most places, at least until the last part of the year.

But because Mubarak regime's is considered moderate, pro Western, and helpful in the context of Israeli Palestinian relations, the West's response to this and other abuses remains muted.

But because Mubarak regime's is considered moderate, pro Western, and helpful in the context of Israeli Palestinian relations, the West's response to this and other abuses remains muted.

So far, public reaction has been muted, but a two week protest by Russia s truck drivers over a new highway toll suggests that popular quiescence may not last.

If summer hurricanes push huge quantities of oil onto Florida s beaches and up the Eastern seaboard, the resulting political explosion will make the reaction to the financial crisis seem muted.

The muted response of the Arab states to Israel s recent mysterious air raid on its territory reflects its isolation within the Arab world an isolation with which the Syrians are extremely uncomfortable.

This look can be seen as the more sophisticated, mature Lolita style because of its use of small, intricate patterns, as well more muted colors on the fabric and in the overall design.

A surprising number of pundits seem to think that if one could only break up the big banks, governments would be far more resilient to bailouts, and the whole moral hazard problem would be muted.

Calderón s uncompromising hard line on drug dealers in Mexico, an unrelenting offensive that follows the precedent set by Uribe in dealing with the FARC, has also been helped because economic growth has muted domestic opposition.

I had no idea that I might one day come across someone playing a muted trumpet on the streets of my capital city, but this year my new friend let me capture the following performance.

There are reasons to worry whether the needed transitions will, in fact, occur smoothly. First, with asset prices like housing fueled by global liquidity, goods prices kept quiescent by excess capacity and global trade, and interest rates held down by muted investment, domestic and external imbalances have been easily financed.

It was autumn. It was cool. It was damp. It was getting dark.

It was theirs. It was experiential. It was authentic.

That was the model. That was what everybody was suggesting was going to be coming.

Two years, I was ostracized, I was stigmatized, I was isolated, because I was a victim.

This was bad! Man, I was I cough. I was sick.

What was that? Was that real?

He was cool. He was fine.

She was happy I was fine.

It was like it always was.

Tom was here before I was.

Everybody who was anybody was there.

I was wondering what that was.