Most editors agree that early, constructive intervention in the thread by the authors is a way of defusing tension ordinarily but I don't think is likely to put off those with a disruptive agenda.
He attacked failed markets, rogue employers and landlords, defusing attacks by frankly admitting that Labour didn't build enough housing and shouldn't have followed the US into Iraq, reminding viewers it was he who prevented Cameron's Syrian adventure.
— Joey Jones (@joeyjonessky) May 7 , 20142. Ed Mili v patronising to PM partic on housing, reinforcing rather than defusing Standard interview about intellectual self-confidence.
The question is whether the WTO's mechanisms are up to the task of defusing rising trade tensions with China.There are grounds for confidence.
The prime minister's hopes of defusing the explosive potential of the European Union's new constitution appear more unrealistic by the day.If not at this weekend's summit of Europe's leaders, then some time early next year, Mr Blair expects to announce that Britain has got its way over the "red lines" it has made so much fuss about.
Leaders at a summit on March 20th and 21st are expected to forgo most climate chatter for discussions on promoting industry and defusing the crisis in Ukraine.
He is probably uniquely qualified to wind down the investment bank at RBS after his success almost a decade ago in safely defusing the explosive capital-markets business of Abbey National, a former building society turned wholesale bank.There are important debates to be held about the governance of banks and bankers' pay.
China and America need to talk often and frankly about defusing them.The United States needs to rediscover the foreign-policy traditions that served it so well in earlier timesThe cold war was an anxious time.
And by defusing the concerns of conservationists in Nebraska, TransCanada is shrewdly undermining the coalition against the pipeline.The irony of all this is that the pipeline is not nearly as important as either its defenders or critics make it out to be.
Georgia says it is prepared to take part this time and blames Russia for the abandonment of the previous talks aimed at defusing tensions in the region.For background, see article CONGRESS is expected to consider a bail-out for America's beleaguered carmakers.
The best way of defusing explosive religious tensions is to safeguard a "respectful, robust, religiously literate debate" between faiths, says Elizabeth Hunter of Theos, a British think-tank.
