Sentence examples for defuse with from inspiring English sources

Within Cookham Wood (and later Highpoint prison, near Newmarket), Hindley was an object of fascination, a response she attempted to defuse with her "normality".

At least since 2002, President Bush, Attorney General Gonzales and possibly others including the Vice President knew that torture and detainee mistreatment entailed criminal liability, which they sought to defuse with novel legal theories and retroactive suspensions of established law.

"You must not show prejudice, you will get in big trouble!" This set off a sharp volley of escalating retorts and counter-retorts, which I tried to defuse with a line I'd heard countless times in China: "You see things are complicated because of our history," I interjected.

Tensions in the house are defused with group bicycle rides.

Failed relationships dissected and defused with anger and spite.

Those who know him insist that the encounter could have been defused with patience and sensitivity.

When comments generated heated outbursts, the tension was typically defused with humorous asides.

The housing bubble is an economic time bomb that, unless defused with a supply of cheaper housing, looks likely to explode with new interest rate rises.

"History suggests that the odds are favorable that current imbalances will be defused with little disruption," he declared in a speech two weeks ago.

Days of tension followed, but in the end there was no military strike, no invasion, and the crisis was defused with a Soviet agreement, announced on Oct. 28, to withdraw the missiles.

The moment was defused with a handshake between the two men, but the point was made: Even the glittering façade of a popular motor show cannot hide the bleak economic realities of the European auto industry.