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Dodd proposes a consumer protection agency -- but wants it to be a part of the Federal Reserve, where it would be likely to have its sword blunted by the conventional wisdoms of central bankers and economists (no doubt with Wall Street whispering in their ears).

'The Road From Ruin': Would Dodd's Solutions Create More Useless Bureaucracy (Think Homeland Security)? 2010

Dodd proposes a consumer protection agency -- but wants it to be a part of the Federal Reserve, where it would be likely to have its sword blunted by the conventional wisdoms of central bankers and economists no doubt with Wall Street whispering in their ears.

Matthew Bishop: 'The Road From Ruin': Would Dodd's Solutions Create More Useless Bureaucracy (Think Homeland Security)? Matthew Bishop 2010

Dodd proposes a consumer protection agency -- but wants it to be a part of the Federal Reserve, where it would be likely to have its sword blunted by the conventional wisdoms of central bankers and economists (no doubt with Wall Street whispering in their ears).

Matthew Bishop: 'The Road From Ruin': Would Dodd's Solutions Create More Useless Bureaucracy (Think Homeland Security)? 2010

The desolation of seeing his supposedly infallible moral sword blunted and useless, the first time he'd ever really got to unsheathe it.

Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997

[- 24 -] And they would have perished utterly, but for the fact that some of the pikes of the barbarians were bent and others were broken, while the bowstrings snapped under the constant shooting, the missiles were all discharged, every sword blunted, and, chief of all, that the men themselves grew weary of the slaughter.

Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). Cassius Dio

Of course, if it's not correct, Clinton's camp can claim they "blunted" the rollout with their wins.

Obama Spokesman: We Don't Have Any Secret Bloc Of Super-Delegates 2009

In a statement Wednesday, the Justice Department said that the deal would have "blunted" Yahoo's ability to compete on search pages where it chose to implement Google ads.

Google Ditches Ad Pact With Yahoo 2008

By using the same generic convention — the recipe — to mock formulaic fiction that seemingly "blunted" the mind, reviewers also created a new generic technology that was as manufactured as its target.

Haunted Britain in the 1970s 2005

I considered Butto, but all the corruption charges kind of blunted the message.

C in C Rogers 2005

The Australians were sort of, well they were self-deprecating and they sort of realized their own foibles and that sort of kind of blunted some criticism by being that way.

CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2002 2002