Others counter that most such exposures can be neutralised these days through derivatives markets.
But phenols are poisonous to human cells, too, and thus have to be neutralised.
The French forces neutralised around 340 artillery shells and high-calibre rockets found stashed under acacia trees in ravines, it reports.
It said that the country's security forces "neutralised" them, without specifying how many people were involved in the alleged action.
It is unlikely that the militiamen still exist as a coherent fighting unit, but also unlikely that they can be peacefully neutralised.
If with a mixture of talks and a firm police and judicial response the dissident campaign is neutralised, who will say that was wrong?
It was not quite the sudden shift from litmus red to blue of an acid being neutralised by an alkali, but it was not far off.
But Mr Sarkozy and the British worked on a clever UN resolution that got the Americans on-side and neutralised the opposition of the Chinese and the Russians.
In America, the effect of some states' hikes in tobacco taxes is being neutralised by a price war, in which smaller, discount brands are undercutting the big names.
After that, I very neatly neutralised this absolutely unfounded threat.
Abraham Lincoln, he shows, was a shrewd, almost devious manager of human talent who was able to deploy his generals in ways that played to their strengths and neutralised their weaknesses.
The threat that had kept her away from Pakistan for nearly a decade - that she would be arrested the moment she stepped foot in the country - had been neutralised.
The single demise of a dictator's absolute rule gave birth to a multitude of demands, ideologies and rifts that are likely to deepen before they are neutralised - or so it is hoped.
Mr Olmert needs to know whether this finding has neutralised Mr Bush's threat of military action against Iran, and how America would react if Israel were to launch an air strike on its own.
"He neutralised my serve better than anybody else the last two weeks, " said the 21-year-old, who lost to Andy Roddick in last year's final before going on to win the ATP Tour's newcomer of the year award.
Farmers and traffickers have largely neutralised the effects of spraying through smart countermeasures such as planting coca bushes in denser and less visible plots and cultivating new strains of coca that are resistant to the herbicide glyphosate.
"It will be neutralised by nature, because of rain which will dilute it and because of the chances that it will come into contact with slightly acidic substances in soil... but that will take a little time, " he says.
In the Lott affair, this paid off: Mr Bush not only got his friend, Bill Frist, appointed leader of the Senate, but also neutralised an issue that the Democrats had hoped to use against him in the forthcoming election.
Then, with much of the European bond market effectively neutralised by the long-term purchase of government debt by the ECB (we are paid not to think about the market value, says one fund manager), you make a large part of the world's debts difficult to value.
Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism specialist at St Andrew's University, believes western governments may have made a mistake in focusing their rhetoric too much on Mr bin Laden, instead of stressing that he heads a large, intricate network which will not disappear instantly, even if he and his immediate comrades are killed or neutralised.
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