The trouble with deflation - steadily falling prices - is that it deadens economic activity for years.

The Cable Muffler wraps around your cable guard in front of the slide where it deadens shock and sound at the shot.

The authors assert that "management without leadership encourages an uninspired style, which deadens activities, [and] leadership without management encourages a disconnected style, which promotes hubris." As they created an international masters program for practicing managers, the authors sought balance between management and leadership and a new structure that would encourage synthesis rather than the traditional MBA separation of discrete business functions (marketing, finance, accounting, etc.).

"When we are not living up to our true vocation, thought deadens our life, or substitutes itself for life, or gives in to life so that our life drowns out our thinking and stifles the voice of conscience.

A: THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, deadens the neurons in the hippocampus, the part of the brain that's in charge of short-term memory.

Corridors are floored with black linoleum, which deadens noise and adds to the devout atmosphere, as if science were some kind of holy order.

Several chapters are not always successful, and at times the writing deadens many fascinating subjects.

The key was to isolate the chemical in snail poison that deadens pain but otherwise leaves the nervous system unharmed.

However, there is an underlying earnestness to Common Ground that deadens its impact.