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Neoliberalism is the closest semi-neutral political theory term for this arrangement save for pejorative epithets like 'kleptocracy,' ambiguous phrases such as 'corporatism' or the accurate but alarming descriptor 'fascism.'

Making Light: Beating airport chemical detection systems 2010

The Middle East was viewed as a semi-neutral zone sealed off from Soviet power by a protective belt composed of Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan, with a neutral Afghanistan providing a buffer….

How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

But, if he has shown during the primaries, and even against McCain, where he is unleashes his surrogates, but stays semi-neutral himself, then he's gonna reap what he sows.

Obama: If They Bring A Knife, We Bring A Gun 2009

It sometimes works and sometimes doesn't but does provide a semi-neutral way to at least break the energy of a violent encounter you're witnessing.

military two-step down the nape of my neck 2006

No, the fundamental question about the future of the New York Times, in the Keller era and beyond, is whether it can recover a sense of true impartiality and independence, or whether its editors and managers have become so snuggly with power, so seduced by the corroded political discourse of our time, that they define "impartiality" as a point of perpetual, semi-neutral waffledom, halfway across the infinitesimal distance between Joe Lieberman and John McCain.

Archive 2004-12-01 2004

The contrast or harmonizing colour of purple is yellow on the side of light and the primaries; while purple itself is the harmonizing contrast of the tertiary _citrine_ on the side of shade, and less perfectly so of the semi-neutral _brown_.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

Most pure in spring, most full in summer, most mellow in autumn, most sober in winter, her tints and shades of colour are always more or less interlaced, from white and the primaries to the semi-neutral and black.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

Accordingly, the various greens of foliage are always more or less semi-neutral in hue.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

Hence the natural alliance of the semi-neutral gray -- definable as a cool coloured grey -- with black or shade; an alliance which is strengthened by the latent predominance of blue in the synthesis of black, so that in the tints resulting from the mixture of black and white, so much of that hue is developed as to give apparent colour to the tints.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

These broken compounds of black, or coloured blacks and greys, we have distinguished by the term, semi-neutral, and divided them into three classes: Brown, Marrone, and Gray.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field