Sentence examples for defuse in from inspiring English sources

And by launching the new attacks with the participation of five Arab allies, he has done all in his power to defuse in advance the most obvious risks of this  new initiative.

This Arab opposition must be defused in the weeks ahead.

Three roadside bombs were found and defused in the region.

Three weeks ago, it left a huge bomb (later defused) in a car in Bilbao.

On February 6th, a huge car bomb was defused in Medellin.

And in Philadelphia, a homemade pipe bomb was found and defused in school.

Several other bombs have exploded or been defused in Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandahar.

Some of the tension between donors and administrators has been defused in recent years by careful matchmaking.

Mayer said in one of his memos ahead of the meeting that this issue needed to be "defused" in advance.

More than 90 bombs dating from the war have been discovered and defused in the town since 1991.

A brief scare over a plane apparently hijacked in Turkey by a Ukrainian man eager to get to Sochi was quickly defused in Istanbul.