Sentence examples for already defused from inspiring English sources

The question, therefore, is what Mr Sharon can do to defuse public opposition to the withdrawal.To some extent it has already defused itself.

"We were aware of the planned attack and we had already defused two bombs planted on our way," said Shahedullah Shahed, a spokesman for the governor who was traveling with him.

"His apology is a key to restoring peace in the future, which will take time, but it has already defused hostility and resentment in many Muslim minds," said Waedueramae Maminchi, leader of the Islamic Council of Pattani Province.

This means that by the time the 6-year-old Clare describes a similar encounter pages later, the potential ick factor has already been defused.

The WGA's already trying to defuse this issue by arguing that the WGA has "softened up" the AMPTP for the DGA to strike a decisive blow, but the loss of face would nonetheless be real.

DOD officials claim the initiative known as the Human Terrain System HTSS) program is working, and has already helped defuse conflict in many areas.

But revolutionary energy defused in one place was already lighting up another: in the first full-evening music-and-lyrics collaboration of the brothers Gershwin, "Lady, Be Good!," which opened on Broadway late in 1924, Fred and Adele Astaire performed a song called "Fascinating Rhythm" and the old-world operetta hastened toward an inevitable, syncopated death.

But even if they can't reach that magic $4 trillion number, Obama and the Democrats may have already claimed the moral high ground and defused the deficit as a major 2012 campaign issue.

Rumors that genes of human embryos have already been edited resurrect anxieties that the Asilomar scientists neither defused nor eliminated.

They deployed when there was a suspect, gunman or escaped fugitive who posed an immediate threat to the public, using force to defuse an already violent situation.

The impact of these interventions has been felt already, with casualties averted due to community volunteers' identification of unexploded ordnance, which local bomb disposal squads have defused immediately.