Sentence examples for defused from inspiring English sources
And families were evacuated while experts defused a car bomb abandoned outside a pub in the predominantly Catholic village of Cargan, near Ballymena, Co Antrim.
His brief self-deprecating reference to "bigotgate" at the beginning of the debate defused the situation, and neither of his opponents were daft enough to try to make political capital out of it.
The whole thing was defused quite quickly (half an hour tops) and the farmer later testified: "Don was fine and did not bark during the incident".
The firepower of the monster serve and forehand might be defused a bit, but the extra time the surface gives him to get into position more than makes up for that.
The White House has defused repeated threats of legislation it believed could weaken its hand or sabotage negotiations.
If French discontent cannot be defused, early parliamentary elections cannot be ruled out.
On February 6th, a huge car bomb was defused in Medellin.
In this environment, the merest hint of a partisan decision could have been disastrous.Mr Bernanke's reappointment has defused that danger.
The authorities there defused what appeared to be an attempted military coup on Tuesday.
On September 11th a bomb was defused in Tripoli; another went off in Benghazi, the cradle of the anti-Qaddafi revolt and the main city of the east.In this section Must it get worse before it gets better?
Lebanon's new government, led by Rafik Hariri, defused tensions with a back-room deal to defer the issue.
