Sentence examples for defusing conflict from inspiring English sources

Just as troubling, legal scholars and judges say, is a party drive to prioritize defusing conflict over adjudication by law.

He said that while the training entails defusing conflict, there comes a time when the fight is imposed on the practitioner.

He had a rare gift for defusing conflict, providing comfort to those in trouble and solving problems with creativity, wit and compassion.

Patricia Leigh Brown and Jim Wilson document an alternative discipline program in Oakland, Calif., called restorative justice that helps students learn from crises and defuse conflicts in the article "Opening Up, Students Transform a Vicious Circle" and the related slide show "Defusing Conflict in Schools".

The book is illustrated with photographs of Dr. Debi and her husband, Michael, renovating in rented wedding finery, and contains tips on defusing conflict — "Speak about the project, not the person" — and a taxonomy of renovators' psychological styles (the Accountant, the Energizer Bunny).

In the Old English poem Beowulf (lines 2016 to 2018), Hroðgar's wife, Wealhþeow, moves through the hall serving mead to the warriors and defusing conflict.

But on several occasions, police officers did back off when challenged, effectively defusing conflicts.

The retraining, which would cost $25 million to $30 million a year, would focus on defusing conflicts with uncooperative suspects, the proper use of force, and using summonses and warnings as alternatives to arrest.

Nonlethal equipment and additional special negotiators were deployed to help defuse conflict situations.

"He constantly sought to defuse conflict, to clear the path for seeing the best in others," she said.

Being upfront about his intentions seems to defuse conflict with authorities, he says, if only because it so thoroughly confuses them.