Some may welcome Downing Street's decision to pour cold water on the corporation tax campaign.

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I'm not looking to pour cold water on Obama's accomplishment.

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"We are delighted that concerns raised by the Center for Security Policy last month seem to have helped to pour cold water on this highly dubious transaction, " says Gaffney.

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In deciding to raise short-term interest rates by half a point, to 6.5%, on May 16th, Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, has clearly decided to pour cold water on America's red-hot economy.

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While we can expect the Obamacare bashers to pour cold water on this good news, there is no denying that the law is paying some dividends in the critically important effort to bend the cost curve in healthcare delivery.

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Given the increasingly conspicuous inequalities emerging in China as a result of the country's embrace of capitalism, it suits Mr Hu to appear to pour cold water on the idea of laisser-faire economics, blamed for a growing gap between rich and poor, between regions and between urban and rural areas.

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