Sentence examples for defusing himself from inspiring English sources

He'd got so good at defusing car bombs that his opponents had eventually decided he needed defusing himself.

Bavetta prides himself on defusing situations with humor and shrugging off criticism.

LOS ANGELES — As he prepared to welcome the players participating in this week's Chevron World Challenge benefiting the Tiger Woods Foundation and other charities, Tiger Woods, the tournament's host, probably did not think he would be issuing a terse statement aimed at defusing a controversy between himself and his longtime rival Phil Mickelson.

Perhaps it stems from his time at Eton; he has the outsider's ability to defuse anything about himself that may seem threatening or unlikeable.

And then, a little humorously: "Where you get that word nigger from?" The reporter fails to reply, but Marley has successfully defused the situation himself.

Whether saving a drowning boy, defusing a bomb with nail clippers or offering himself as a prison hostage, he's a model of steadfast decency.

Chávez had shown himself capable of sparking a regional confrontation and then, by defusing it, appearing as the peacemaker.

In short, Putin's willingness to assert himself as an agent of peace in the South Caucasus has been vital to defusing the latest round of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.

So, some guys enjoy defusing bombs?

That envoy may be Secretary Powell himself, or his deputy, Richard Armitage, or Richard Haass, who heads the State Department's policy planning operations and has long experience in defusing past India-Pakistan crises.

We're focused on defusing those tensions".