Sentence examples for defuse a conflict from inspiring English sources

It was a quiet Sunday morning in the middle of the Middle East summit talks when President Clinton picked up the telephone at Camp David and tried to defuse a conflict closer to home.

The operation on June 25 illustrates the sort of mission in which American troops have increasingly found themselves since the cold war -- in a nether world between war and peace, where the goal is to defuse a conflict between two warring sides, rather than to defeat a foe.

The deal potentially defuses a conflict over American stimulus dollars being used to subsidize foreign companies.

Shrinking the size of the strip -- which NATO declared off-limits to Serbian forces in June 1999 -- is central to defusing a conflict involving ethnic Albanian separatists who use the zone as a safe haven.

Continuing low oil prices could help defuse a new conflict between Britain and Argentina over the Falklands (Malvinas) islands.

The comments were the clearest sign yet that Europeans were considering how to defuse a mounting conflict over the new emissions law with its most important trading partners.

A4 Unity Coalition in Macedonia Macedonia's Parliament overwhelmingly endorsed a national unity government as the nation tried to defuse a bruising conflict with ethnic Albanian insurgents.

Mr. Akbar is not known as a particularly fervent defender of human rights, and analysts fear he lacks the commitment needed to clean up the judicial system or defuse a debilitating conflict between the police and the highly regarded anti-corruption commission.

PARIS — Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive of Renault, sought to defuse an employment conflict with the French government, telling President Nicolas Sarkozy over the weekend that the automaker would split production of its new Clio model between France and Turkey, and would produce its new electric vehicle entirely in a plant near Paris.

Called to the White House in the first season of "The West Wing" to advise the president on how to defuse an escalating conflict between India and Pakistan, the fictional British diplomat Lord John Marbury arrives drunk, insults the chief of staff and leers salaciously at every woman in sight.

The decision for the second time defused a potential conflict between Obama and the Supreme Court over the sprawling government program that is likely to define the president's domestic legacy.