Sentence examples for be defused by from inspiring English sources

As such, it can also be defused by policy, if not easily or quickly.

America's horror of "nationalization" could be defused by handing out shares to all American households.

McCain's suggestion that he hopes the debt limit crisis can be defused by real negotiations to replace the sequester will likely be greeted well by Dems.

They also know that the street's wrath can be defused by progress on the Arab-Israeli front or elections at home.

This danger can be defused by a policy of deterrence don't strike first, retaliate if struck but to guarantee its credibility, parties must avenge all insults and settle all scores, leading to cycles of bloody vendetta.

But both the Adele and the Winehouse albums leave me a bit lost — why is Adele, only twenty-two, so ready to become Barbra Streisand, letting a technically stunning instrument be defused by all that musical safety?

That bomb was defused by the police.

The device was defused by police bomb disposal experts.

This week a car bomb, again in Bilbao, was defused by police.

To a large extent, he acknowl edges, the Vietnam issue has been defused by President Nixon.

The bomb was defused by Dutch military experts, and no one was injured, Ms. Rijsdorp said.