Sentence examples for Defuse confrontation from inspiring English sources
It is possible to build a missile defense and defuse confrontation with Russia.
He anticipated a knee-jerk Gore reaction with a built-in response: "It is possible to build a missile defense and defuse confrontation with Russia.
Certainly we should use our planned unilateral reduction of offensive missiles to "defuse confrontation with Russia," as Bush suggested last year.
In their frequent, almost casual, references to the potential annihilation of each other's people, the two leaders are eroding a once-unspoken assumption that leaders seek to defuse confrontation, not cultivate it.
He also said it was possible to move ahead with defensive missiles and still "defuse confrontation" with Russia, even though President Vladimir V. Putin and others have ardently opposed such a shield.
Indeed, such run-ins — which can be over principles and people that are, of course, important in their own right, just not as important as the entire relationship between the powers — can often lead to better understanding and the development of ways to cooperate and defuse confrontation.
If the situation becomes critical, many Thais hope King Bhumibol Adulyadej will intervene as he has several times over the years to defuse confrontations.
Yesterday and today, he said, were reserved mostly for workshops on such matters as how to defuse confrontations with the police.
But he had a terrible temper, a tendency to escalate rather than to defuse confrontations, and, by the time he was released, just before turning eighteen, he had achieved only a ninth-grade education.
The more the police fail to defuse confrontations but instead help create them — be it with their equipment, tactics or demeanor — the more ties with community members are burned, he said.
Mayor Felix Roque said the town was spending $1,000 a day for police officers to prevent vandalism of the tree, defuse confrontations and keep traffic moving on the busy strip of Bergenline Avenue between 60th and 61st Streets.
