'defuse risks' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to express the idea of reducing or eliminating the chances of potential negative consequences from a given situation. For example, "The CEO wanted to ensure the success of the new product launch, so she took steps to defuse risks."
Li said China must "ensure steady growth, ensure employment, avert inflation and defuse risks" while also fighting pollution, among other tasks.
We hear about every disaster involving human fallibility — the chemical plant that exploded because the technician failed to open a valve, the plane that fell from the sky because the pilot mishandled the yoke — but what we don't hear about are all the times that people use their expertise to avoid accidents or defuse risks.
Is it OK to appoint an ex-Fortis director to the Bank of England's financial policy committee, the body charged with spotting and defusing risks in the UK financial system?
"Lack of unity in regulatory policies and the lagging of development of the related legal framework has increased the difficulty of defusing risks from the shadow banking sector," the researchers said.
In conference on nuclear threat, former Energy Secretary Moniz and Rep. Lee call for diplomacy to defuse rising risks.
"We should strengthen our sense of responsibility and purpose, and go all out to fend off and defuse major risks," Wang told the cadres, according to reports in the state media.
According to Reuters, Chinese leaders are likely to stick with a growth target of about 6.5% for 2018, the same as in 2017, even as they continue efforts to defuse the risks from a rapid build-up of debt.
The continued rise in debt has instead been driven by three groups: special-purpose vehicles controlled by local governments, state-owned enterprises and property developers (see chart).The dukes of moral hazardThis concentration should make it easier to defuse the risks.
Enterprises adopting AI are bound to have their own "crashes" -- HR systems that ignore qualified candidates for unlawful reasons, finance systems that learn the wrong way to detect fraud, procurement systems that fail to predict supply disruptions, etc. — but steps can be taken to defuse these risks.
I've seldom met anyone more careful to qualify so many opinions with "for me", or "I think, anyway", or some other subtle disclaimer to defuse any risk of sounding self-important.
