However, the sound waves themselves become attenuated in different ways as they travel through different people.
Also, the best human vaccines for other diseases tend to be those that use attenuated strains.
By the 1990s, the Watergate babies had attenuated as a presence in the House.
If you think the costs of that conflict might be relatively low, your concern might be attenuated.
Once again, the link between the geostrategic event and the real-world consequence is, to put it mercifully, attenuated.
Thus the total demographic effect of aging is attenuated by the absence of female workers in the older cohorts.
Another part, he thinks, is that "the incentives are attenuated because of the structure of insurance, " namely, job-based coverage.
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As the post-independence history of both Lebanon and Israel shows, the Europeans eventually attenuated their support for non-Arab governments.
In other words, delayed compensation attenuated the positive effects of the high-powered incentives.
The Bank of England has argued for some time that the link between the housing market and consumption has attenuated.
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There is much else, about New Orleans, the sea, and many other things, but the movie is an attenuated folly.
But when government itself is the manufacturer, these forces tend to be attenuated and the shield of government safety regulation is weakened.
Under these circumstances, the U.S. ability rapidly to return them to Korea in the event of conflict there would be significantly attenuated.
The use of killed or attenuated strains provides researchers with a dilemma.
Ray recognizes the paradox that reformers are insulated from the people for whom they toil, but the movie is too stately and attenuated.
Transmissions in the millimeter wave band are attenuated even by trees.
Fluenz is a live attenuated - weakened - intranasal vaccine, which has been used for several years in the United States under the brand name FluMist.
But Sam and Judy persuaded her that, even if she wished to be executed, capital cases are often so attenuated that it could be decades before an execution happened.
It was merely attenuated and refined.
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Today, the only recognized limitations are that (1) Congress may not regulate non-economic behavior based solely on an attenuated link to interstate commerce, and (2) Congress may not regulate intrastate economic behavior if its aggregate impact on interstate commerce is negligible.
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His government clearly understands, however, that to the extent legitimate opposition to and debate over his Golan initiative can be attenuated by portraying critics as "anti-democratic" and "extremists, " the political risks associated with making major, controversial concessions of strategic territory can be minimized.
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This perception has had several practical and beneficial effects for the Soviet national security apparatus: First, it has greatly attenuated support for Western military preparedness, providing "a breathing space" (peredyshka) vitally needed if the Soviet Union is to restore a favorable correlation of forces.
If there was any doubt left about the impact of globalization of the supply chain, the news this month should make it crystal clear: supply chains today are attenuated and extremely vulnerable to repercussions from events far outside the control of those who manage and rely on them.
For that matter, at least in the Soviet bloc, it is evident that expanding economic ties -- "commercial bridge-building" as it was termed during the failed period of U.S.-Soviet detente in the 1970s -- does not ensure either that internal repression is mitigated or that the foreign adventurism of communist states will be attenuated.
For that matter, at least in the Soviet bloc, it is evident that expanded economic ties or "commercial bridge-building" as it was termed during the failed period of U.S.-Soviet detente in the 1970s do not ensure either that internal repression is mitigated or that the foreign adventurism of communist states will be attenuated.
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Then too, the fact that the PA's chief negotiator Saeb Erekat published an article in The Guardian two weeks ago in which he implicitly called for Israel's destruction, one could be forgiven for thinking Ma'ariv's former opinion editor Ben Dror Yemini and Shaul Arieli from the EU-funded Council for Peace and Security might have attenuated their support for Israeli land giveaways.
Not only has his studied inability to defend the country attenuated many Israelis' faith in the state's ability to defend them, Olmert's refusal to countenance the public's demand that he resign after the war in Lebanon and his insistent postwar attempts to give away Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem to Fatah while wrecking the strategic alliance with the US have sown confusion and discord.
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