Sentence examples for are designed to defuse from inspiring English sources

An Asia minus India and China is perhaps only wider if you live in the bits in between.Also, as Mr Tay concedes, Asian "regionalism" is "a mess", a bewildering plethora of ineffectual talking-shops that only keep going by refusing to tackle head-on any of the potential conflicts they are designed to defuse.

It was designed to defuse claims that the Labor government had "lost control" of Australia's borders.

(Patrollers are trained to identify themselves immediately and state the offense. The technique, called "verbal judo," is designed to defuse high-octane encounters).

The House of Lords has already endorsed the demand, and the announcement by Home Office ministers is designed to defuse a potential Conservative backbench rebellion.

The directive, which will compel firms to improve their pollution control equipment and will fine those responsible for excessive emissions,  is designed to defuse growing public anger at the country's appalling environmental record.

On 6 July, local xenophobic fury erupted again at a meeting held by the regional authorities in Freital which had been designed to defuse anger and open a reconciliation process.

move was designed to defuse tensions in Bahrain and "to support the Bahraini government and to get calm and order in Bahrain and to help both the Bahraini government and people to reach to a solution which is for the best for the Bahraini people".

She cites one particularly striking example of a military robot that was designed to defuse landmines by stepping on them.

The change is designed to defuse controversy over potential damage to the reef and avoid a court case launched by the North Queensland Conservation Council, it added.

There are several immediate responses designed to defuse this category.

I'm half convinced this app is actually a cunning ruse designed to defuse the self-consciousness of dating by making it into a bit of a game — thus allowing people who want to go on dates to meet other like-minded single folk and get chatting without actually having to have those awkward first conversations framed by the awkward 'first date' context.