Sentence examples for defuse resistance from inspiring English sources

One might well argue that the best way to defuse resistance to a carbon market would be to regulate innovation within an inch of its life, in order to restore public confidence in the useful, vanilla financial world.

As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald's and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law's standards.

(For one set of attempts to defuse this resistance, arguing that a higher-order account need have few if any implications for our moral practices or for comparative psychology, see Carruthers 2005, chs.9 11).9 11

What results, she argues, is characterized by Roy (2003) as 'the NGO-ization' of politics and resistance, defusing political anger 'rather than organizing tangible social change'.

Cuadrilla is trying to defuse the opposition.

To defuse the anger and overcome resistance to strengthening the embankment and building more ponds, UNICEF, which leads the humanitarian community's emergency work in the water and sanitation sector, met with the other participating agencies and local representatives for several months to build local support.

The White House sought this week to defuse the situation by allowing Ms. Rice to testify before the Sept. 11 commission after months of resistance.

But the move by Ms. Fiorina and Mr. Capellas to forgo merger-contingent bonus payments seems clearly intended to defuse any criticism that they could pocket multimillion-dollar payments to champion a merger that faces some stiff resistance.