The likelihood is that the Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes can be defused, for now at least.
Until male violence can be defused, for instance, the refuges will continue to overflow.
The zoot's racial and political associations, which once provoked fist fights and riots, were defused for the post-World War II generation by images of the cool suavity of musicians like Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway.
Divisional setups and the luck of the draw have kept the Rangers and the Bruins apart in the postseason since 1973, and the rivalry was defused for decades to come by the 1975 and 1976 trades that moved the once-hated Esposito, Ken Hodge and Carol Vadnais to New York, and Ratelle and Park to Boston.
The confrontation between the Chinese authorities and Hong Kong's premier auction houses over the sale of looted imperial treasures has been defused, for now at least, by an unlikely source: a giant Chinese state-owned corporation that became the winning bidder on three of the four contested objects.
While intramural tensions mount and defuse for the Eaton Place inhabitants, there's also a Holland house-warming party involving a visit from Joachim von Ribbentrop (Edward Baker-Duly), who subsequently dallies with Persephone and causes foreign-office repercussions.
It's as if Olds has seen prurience, child molestation, and incest in the phenomenal world, and now can't wait to reduce it to an archeology of fantasy and fetish in her poetry, so that the threat of things going haywire in the cozy domestic realm is defused, for us and her.
House Republicans, warned by one of their pollsters that the prescription drug issue could cost them their majority in November, are following his script for defusing the issue almost word for word.
They role-play bullying in school assemblies, teach tactics for defusing situations, and stress respect for everyone.
Arabs' Statehood Plan By The New York Times CAIRO, July 12 -- The Arab states, dismayed that the United States has basically ignored their call for a specific timetable for defusing Arab-Israeli violence, will propose a two-year plan for the establishment of a Palestinian state, senior Arab officials said today.
