Some politicians see safety and success in the muting of differences.

The muting of her mind had begun to fade: she could feel real amazement.

There was an electric smell in the air, and a muting of the noise of the crowds.

The lines on his face were deep-cut today, harsh despite the muting of the afternoon light by the warm autumn haze.

Random muting is necessary when identifying very large populations of tags during singulation.

The name is a slight misnomer, as the muting is performed by the side of the hand, not the palm.

Governor Dukakis well appreciates how he stands to gain from the muting of the Soviet issue.

We must tread carefully on that right or we risk the unnecessary and unjustified muting of the public voice.

So far he had not done a single overt act save the muting of the space-radio, and that could not ever be proved.

It would be too much to say that it now went out of tune, but there was a certain muting of its strings.

The most common way to play with palm muting is placing the edge of picking hand near the bridge, dampening the strings when necessary.

Left-hand muting is used to produce chops: chords that are released the instant after picking.

What, then, is the effect of the constant muting and miniaturizing of the great big stars in Adams's oeuvre?

This is not particularly useful; especially since many CD players incorporate automatic muting in the absence of signal.

Even the "muting of advertising" in the proposed F.D.A. regulations does not go far enough.

He slept a great deal lately, husbanding his energy, perhaps, or seeking in unconsciousness a muting of the ceaseless pain.

A bland gray hum signaled a momentary muting of the InterLink.

The muting of Mr. Koizumi's visit, though, appeared to be a concession to growing criticism at home.

Palm muting of such chords helps to alleviate this problem, giving notes chuggier, more distortion-friendly sound.

The White House has been helped in its low-key approach by the muting of voices on Capitol Hill.

Loewen asserts that the muting of past clashes and tragedies makes history boring to students, especially groups excluded from the positive histories.

He also played bass guitar on records, initiating the "tic-tac" method of bass muting.

The muting of the Mets has created a new star: Jay Horwitz, the team's public relations chief.

But any show of restraint, any muting of the charges would have weakened the punch of opening night.

Pressing the hand down intensively makes heavy muting, enhancing staccato effect, adding percussion and making notes less recognizable.

She looked at him with mute question in her eyes.

For a long while, the man and the woman are mute.

You could look on him as being almost a mute.

I stood mute next to her as she turned toward me.

Some of the children in this group had not been mute until age 9-12.

The old woman took her hand back and fell mute.

They all were - or had enough Mute blood in them for it not to matter.

Steve had never seen a Mute with no hair before.

There was no mute sign of a woman in the room.

He put her on mute and picked up the other phone.

Many players have reported that they often play the game on mute.

And so far the phone had been mute except for two wrong numbers.

All his fears about the coming months would be mute.

For the first time an exhibition had left me mute.

Whatever the reason, it is probably best that he remain mute.

"Actually it is very good that they are not dead or mute," he said.

They spoke to each other, but the vision was mute.

Of course, your mute character is just fine with all this.

What's a mute diplomat going to do to keep himself in business?

It was like being given a tongue when you had been mute.

The mute man was back again, with a third container.

She looked at her husband, lying mute in the bed.

The prisoner had been mute too long to find its voice again so quickly.

And a mute head shake from me told him all he needed to know.

"You mean somebody finally showed up and it's a mute guy?"

True, you can mute the sound while using voice control.

The medical community's political voice has thus far been muted on these issues.

You can mute the sound, but there is no way to turn the set off.

Now, he has been muted far earlier than anyone expected.

As a result the word China was muted out in the film.

Public discussion of the question has been muted so far.

After a moment it stopped, as if someone had muted the sound.

He muted the sound and let the images continue to play.

Republican leaders are trying their best to mute the issue this time around.

The home run muted the crowd of 44,447 for a few seconds.

The money, he said, will not mute his criticism of the government.

The purpose would not be to mute American popular culture.

For an instant, it seemed as if her words had muted him again.

I called to him, the heavy air muting my voice.

He picked up the remote control and muted the sound again.

Then mute the phone, or simply put the receiver down, and walk away.

Among the players, the reaction has been muted to the league's decision.

Christopher muted the television and turned his chair to face him.

But he had the caution to mute this ability too.

Even his own agency eventually muted its complaints, he said.

A technical problem had muted the volume on the television set.

It can mute all sound from the computer, regardless of the source.

He took the call and muted the audio but kept watching the screen.

Then he tried again, muting his voice so as not to wake the others.

I muted the sound and threw my bag onto the little bed.

The Mute was one problem he could have done without.

And I understand the mutes shot a few people on the ground.

"Probably just a few of the top Mutes like this one know anything."

An attack by a large force of Mutes could be expected at any time.

The rest of the boys had made it pretty clear how they felt about Mutes.

But now, at last, it was open season for Mutes.

The young Mute was a lot sharper than he'd thought.

The war was lost, and the mutes were probably taking no prisoners.

The Mutes in those work camps are there because they lost out.

You were sent out to bring in those two smart Mutes.

Mutes, themselves, were at the top of the target list.

But I should have asked her to arrange for mutes.

In one sense, the discovery that he was a Mute came as a great relief.

But they would no longer have the monopoly on trade with the Mutes.

Killing Mutes was what he had been trained to do.

No one had warned him this might happen, but the Mute did not lose his cool.

Did that mean the Mutes had some way to switch off pain?

It was probably the first time a Mute had asked him a question. '

The young Mute was, in many ways, a mirror-image of himself.

The pursuing Mutes fall back and fade into the bush.

The Mute would end up with both staffs in about two seconds flat.

Before the Mutes came and burned everything to the ground."

During his five months as a prisoner of the Mutes, something had snapped.

What happened with the Mutes was a different situation.

The scattered groups of people who were to become the Mutes never learned to put their trust in one another.