Sentence examples for an effort to diffuse from inspiring English sources

City and police officials held meetings with community leaders Wednesday and Thursday in an effort to diffuse tensions, and said they would continue to do so.

The Foreign Ministry announcement appeared to be an effort to diffuse the recent standoff and to disprove Indian accusations that separatist rebels were being allowed to infiltrate the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the border.

In an effort to diffuse some of those tensions, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports IHME, funded WHO to organize the meeting.

Likely, in an effort to diffuse the tension that had suddenly engulfed the room, The View co-host Joy Behar remarked (and correctly so) that "a lot of White people named their children after food ― Apple, Honey".

One Republican strategist suggested that the White House, in an effort to diffuse the notion that it is chock-full of socialist schemers, was eager to project distance between itself and its base.

In an effort to diffuse tension, super users provided frames, i.e., "definitions of organizational reality that serve as vehicles for understanding and action" [ 42].

* We would make a serious effort to diffuse the toxic Arab-Israeli conflict, including using NATO forces to separate the parties.

He also made a big effort to diffuse the drama that has arisen around the situation.

Police officers are expected to make every effort to diffuse volatile situations using non-lethal force.

Think of it as an attempt to diffuse a bomb.

This release is apparently an attempt to diffuse criticism of the roundly panned remake.