Sentence examples for defuse and from inspiring English sources

Jokes work to defuse and distract, she has found.

Aged only 51, Wintringham died of a heart attack in 1949, but not before sketching a blueprint for an international brigade to defuse and resolve conflicts – the germ of today's UN peacekeeping forces.

Protocols such as the use of the "hot line" evolved to defuse and manage crises, and great care was taken to prevent the possibility of accidental or unauthorised launch.

But what was clear, in conversations behind the smoldering truck tires and the barricades of overturned cars, is that this will now be a very tricky situation to defuse and forget.

Thus did Olivier defuse and defang the dark implication in the previous scene, that the church was giving Henry a corrupt, blood-for-tax-abatement excuse for an unnecessary war.

In a Policy Network report earlier this year on how mainstream parties internationally respond to populist, insurgent threats (like Ukip) Anthony Painter identifies three strategies: "hold", "defuse" and "adopt".

He said the bomb was quickly defused and carted away.

The bomb was defused and did not explode.

Once more the Eastern Question had been defused and Germany's alliances preserved.

In the end, however, the situation was defused and some jobs were saved.

Reviewing Applause in 1970, Alistair Cooke wrote that "Bacall defuses and obliterates every other talent on stage.