With the federal defanging of modern dance, you feel genuine relief at your friend's recognition.

It is not Ms. Matthews's intention to perpetrate a ritual defanging.

She barely touches the difficult topic of American foreign policy as a critical aspect of the defanging of Islamism.

The plot depends on a quick defanging of Vincent, so that he is never the kind of hatemonger who could curdle a comic story.

All those politicians, clergymen and secular moralists who have made the defanging of Jerry Springer the No. 1 priority for purifying our culture were made to look like perfect fools this week.

The orchestra is knit into the political fabric (indeed it played an important role in the defanging of the Communist government, and Mr. Masur's name has been mentioned as a possible president of a united Germany).

The argument put forward relates to progressive defanging of workers in the workplace and the subsequent degradation of work as management, powered by capital, uses Taylor's methods to render work repeatable, precise yet monotonous and skill-reducing.

He notes, with a kind of impartial interest, the psyche's paradoxical strategies in the face of unbearable grief: the relinquishment of need as a protection against loss, the dodging of despair by half-feigned indifference, the defanging of terror by cultivated calm.

The common wisdom, though, is that a complete defanging of the Party of God can only be accomplished through an elaborate political accord under which Israel would give up control of its buffer zone in Lebanon in return for a commitment by Syria to disband and disarm Hezbollah's militias.