1.   Although the White House response was muted, officials made clear their bittersweet reaction to the announcement, saying it was long overdue.

2.   But that very experience that helps explain why the response is so muted now.

3.   Perceived self-interest can so easily mute political responses to inhumanity.

4.   The response was muted because the results were widely leaked yesterday.

5.   The White House response was muted.

6.   Why has there been so muted a response to what at one time may have been so provocative an image?

7.   Yet his response was muted.

8.   So far, the response has been muted and only intellectuals have spoken strongly in support of campus activists.

9.   The earlier Israeli incursion drew widespread international criticism, but this time around the response has been muted.

10.   The earlier Israeli incursion drew widespread international criticism, but this time around response has been muted.