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Tensions are typically defused in advance. Good news is often played up to produce a positive mood.

Do that, Jian Wangwrites, and an issue that's become a central difficulty in relations between the U. S. can be largely defused.

After Kennedy conferred with all of his White House advisors, a balanced course of action defused the crisis. War was averted .

I suggested to Sue that we dismiss her, but Lixi's desperation defused my anger, and I consoled myself that man does not live by rice alone.

eg. Police have defused a bomb found in a building in London.

A spokesman for Merry Electronics said the situation was quickly defused.

North Korea said in its editorial Saturday that confrontation between the Koreas should be quickly defused.

When Bush nominated him again four years later, Gates defused his critics with self-effacing humor and humility and was confirmed easily.

Working alongside Emergency Services Unit Captain John Darius (Willem Dafoe), all are hopeful that the situation can be peacefully defused.

New York police have defused a bomb in Times Square, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the US.

Police say the device failed to explode and was defused by bomb disposal experts.

The police defused a time bomb in the building.

By taking this approach, it demonstrated its integrity and completely defused the anger of those who were complaining.

Companies that have defused corporate discord know it's important not to focus on problems.

A second bomb was found and defused near the scene of the blast.

Companies that have defused corporate discord know it's important not to focus on problem.

Those have not materialized, although car bombs have been found and defused or blown up before reaching their targets.

Early on, he anticipated and defused negative criticisms by admitting to past indiscretions his autobiography.

Such trips are carefully choreographed and many of the tensions evident before the meetings will have been defused ahead of time.

But the tensions will need to be defused before things can improve on both sides of the Pacific.

On Wednesday, law enforcement officers defused a bomb planted on rail tracks in Makhachkala, Interfax reported.

The slowdown appears to have defused fears of inflation.

Also on Monday, a weapons-removal squad defused a 500-pound bomb found next to a highway near Hanover , in the north.

By saying very little in public, they defused what threatened to become a juvenile spat.

This defused some criticism of its currency policy.

Investors lovedMr Greenspan, who over the years defused a string of financial crises.

The exercise defused their intense emotions and changed the way they thought about their situation.

defused the hostility with a deft turn of phrase.

Almost without anyone noticing, the population bomb is being defused.

NO potentially violent situation can be "defused" or "de-escalated" . NEVER EVER assume that it CAN!

His museum contains tons of defused mines, heaped in corners, stacked on shelves.

In the lobby, they were met by riot police, who eventually defused the situation.

Through brave and careful work, ATF personnel defused the one bomb and Florida police bomb experts the other.

After tense negotiations, the Cuban missile crisis is defused.

a diplomatic move that defused the international crisis.

Yet if we just press the "pause" button on our emotions, taking time to mull over our choices, many crises can be defused.

The global economic crisis hit in October 2008 has defused the serious shortage situation of China's coal energy by accident.

Miss Mary defused and obliterated every other talent on stage.

Authorities say a seventh bomb was defused before it exploded.

The controversy is also being defused by a shift in public opinion.

I know of no instance where incremental monetary policy has defused a bubble .

So here's the first punch line. Cities have defused the population bomb.

Bomb has been defused, operation faliure, return to the main base!

When the 1998 crisis struck, Mr Yeltsin defused the situation by sacking the prime minister and the entire government.

Despite the heavy security, police said separatists planted a bomb along a road in Srinagar which was later detected and defused .

In the end the situation was defused when Prost appeared in front of FISA and satisfied Mosley that he'd been misquoted.

Also in Iraq, military robots have defused over 10, 000 roadside bombs, which are responsible for 40% of U.

This seems a lifetime and I can not defused.

some of these deer would eat snakes whose poison, when it is defused through their internals, produce a burning heat and fever;