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  • verb Present participle of defang.

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  • If the bipartisan report is any indication, he will be particularly interested in defanging Iran, a position that he has made clear in speeches to Israeli audiences.

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  • If the bipartisan report is any indication, he will be particularly interested in defanging Iran, a position that he has made clear in speeches to Israeli audiences.

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  • And, I mean, what you have seen the White House do in a way with, for instance, the death panels and kind of defanging that argument, that's essentially what they are doing here with floating this whole idea of maybe the public option isn't the best choice.

    CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2009 2009

  • And I mean, what you've seen the White House do in a way with for instance the death panels and kind of defanging that argument.

    CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2009 2009

  • Since Ronald Reagan opened the OIRA office in 1981, Republicans have used it to particular advantage to pursue an anti-regulatory agenda, defanging environmental rules on things like water runoff and climate change -- even blocking attempts to collect information that might lead to regulations.

    Michele Simon: Congress to Kids: Drop Dead Michele Simon 2011

  • And in every case, defanging the regulators has led to expensive disasters.

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Ninety Days of Hell from Decades of Neglect 2010

  • Since Ronald Reagan opened the OIRA office in 1981, Republicans have used it to particular advantage to pursue an anti-regulatory agenda, defanging environmental rules on things like water runoff and climate change -- even blocking attempts to collect information that might lead to regulations.

    Michele Simon: Congress to Kids: Drop Dead Michele Simon 2011

  • And in every case, defanging the regulators has led to expensive disasters.

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Ninety Days of Hell from Decades of Neglect 2010

  • Since Ronald Reagan opened the OIRA office in 1981, Republicans have used it to particular advantage to pursue an anti-regulatory agenda, defanging environmental rules on things like water runoff and climate change -- even blocking attempts to collect information that might lead to regulations.

    Michele Simon: Congress to Kids: Drop Dead Michele Simon 2011

  • Since Ronald Reagan opened the OIRA office in 1981, Republicans have used it to particular advantage to pursue an anti-regulatory agenda, defanging environmental rules on things like water runoff and climate change -- even blocking attempts to collect information that might lead to regulations.

    Michele Simon: Congress to Kids: Drop Dead Michele Simon 2011

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