The White House is sitting on its hands while special-interest lobbyists are busy neutering legislation on Capitol Hill.
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With his policy of free neutering for cats and Boris Johnson, Lord Biro wanted to highlight "rip-off" vets' fees.
Covering everything from mouthing to spaying and neutering, the ASPCA can help shed light on some basic behavioral bloopers.
Spicier pitches may also have had a hand in the unpredictable tournament results, by neutering the power-packed batting attacks of some of the bigger teams.
But by preventing the rise of an able successor, while neutering the new democratic institutions, he has left Guinea in a condition almost as precarious as his own health.
The greatest single point of failure in maintaining a credible export control system was the neutering of the Defense Department's traditional role as the conservative anchor of the process.
Another new law allows the president to transfer the powers and resources of local government to socialist communes, potentially neutering the opposition's electoral victories in many big cities in 2008.
By neutering the public unions, the wealthy would not only vanquish their most formidable enemy but would effectively place the Democrats at a financial disadvantage that might well be impossible to overcome.
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However, there is speculation that, in the event of a deadlocked result, Mario Monti's centre bloc could end up lending support to the centre-left, thereby neutering the threat posed by Mr Berlusconi and his allies.
But, fearful of driving banks and investors away and so neutering the effort, he and Larry Summers, Mr Obama's White House economic adviser, have consistently resisted imposing conditions as strict as some in Congress would like.
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In Rhode Island, where unemployment stubbornly remains at 11%, Mr. Palumbo who once tried unsuccessfully to have a contribution box added to state income tax forms to pay for spaying and neutering stray cats admits there are bigger issues to tackle.
In some ways, the seven years of his presidency have been among the least bad periods in Russia's history, which helps to explain his popularity but so does his neutering of the media, strangulation of political opposition and suborning of parliament and elections.
Unless the procedure is changed to one where appeals are possible only on specific legal grounds, there is a risk that, as today, anyone with the means could file for an almost limitless number of amparos, says Mr Hernandez, effectively neutering the state system.
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