Sentence examples for a defusing from inspiring English sources

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In the days since the election, Mr. Gore has repeatedly called for a defusing of the heated language that has inflamed partisans on both sides of the aisle.

It took a while, but Thatcher's endorsement won Gorbachev important credibility in Washington and other western capitals, which ultimately contributed to a defusing of lethal tensions and the liberation of Moscow's empire.

But for both Jews and Catholics, it also took time and a defusing of the larger cause with which they were identified by their enemies, or at least some disavowal of the use of force to pursue that cause.

Instead, administration officials say, the biggest benefit of Mr. Obama's engagement policy now is not dialogue or understanding with adversaries, but simply a defusing of a worldwide view that the United States is part of the problem, a demonstration that the problem is Tehran's intransigence, not Washington's pique.

Now, there is a section in "Catcher" in which Holden fantasizes about shooting the pimp who has set him up with a prostitute, but it is exactly a bit of extended irony about the movies and their effect on everyone's imagination: a defusing of vengeance fantasies.

So a different retort is needed, a defusing one to which the only sensible response is a chuckle: "we lose every week, we lose every weee-eek, you're nothing special, we lose every week" or the always diverting: "Let's pretend we've scored a goal … ".

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In addition, a coalition defuses a common adversary's ability to pit one weak party against another or to credibly threaten to walk away.

Brain surgery is slow and dangerous, and removing a tumor can be like defusing a bomb.

Always be careful while defusing a bomb because at any time a terrorist would pop you out and kill you while you are defusing a bomb.

Demolition - This game mode rewards players with 50 XP for a kill, 100 for killing a defusing enemy, 100 for planting the bomb and letting it explode, and 500 for defusing a bomb.

Defusing a Bomb?

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