Sentence examples for defuse complaints from inspiring English sources

As a member of the Broadcasting Standards Council (1988-93), he did much to defuse complaints against his industry.

She chides employers who teach mindfulness or provide happiness training to employees as a way to increase "work-life integration"—meaning, spending more time at work and less time at home and to defuse complaints about work conditions.

Goldman on Wednesday tried to defuse complaints about waiting times and high prices at its metals warehouses across the world by offering immediate access to aluminum for end users holding metal at its Metro International Trade Services unit.

Administration officials have struggled to develop new economic policies and an effective message to blunt expected Republican gains in Congress and defuse complaints from Democrats that President Obama is fumbling the issue most important to voters.

As reported by Rendezvous at the weekend, Ms. Toranian sought to defuse complaints about an article that claimed the emergence of a fashionable "black-geosie" in the United States by saying it was "full of good intentions" but might have been badly expressed.

That has not only improved the prospects for concluding a peace agreement, it has also helped President Boris N. Yeltsin defuse domestic complaints that his Government was powerless to end the fighting.

China will send a business delegation to the United States to order goods in a bid to defuse American complaints about the ballooning trade imbalance between the countries, a senior Chinese trade official said.

It seems he was trying to defuse backbench complaints about the Safe Schools program last week when he said the minister would look at its content but that concession has now become a formal "review" and has been claimed as a victory by opponents of the scheme.

But the Obama administration officials say they drew up the regulations precisely to defuse that complaint.

That's just as well, say some analysts who fear the president is preparing to settle for minor concessions and Chinese promises to buy more American products, Beijing's perennial strategy for defusing trade complaints.

The officials have a chilling habit of defusing all complaint, whether face-to-face or on the phone, by insisting that they themselves are not making a ruling – it is all the responsibility of the "decision-maker", as if it is one single person: "decision-maker" is an almost laughably ungainly officialese, which also has something distinctly Orwellian about it.