The speaker and his fellow diners say they have better plans for defusing the power of special interests in Albany and that nobody can buy their votes with a mere meal.
In the view of American officials, the law, which was intended in part to correct electoral distortions that had given Kurds and Shiites disproportionate power in some regions dominated by Sunni Arabs, could in theory help defuse the power of the Sunni insurgency.
By recreating these vehicles in miniature, children effectively made them their own and at least psychologically defused their power of intimidation.
And even if the person joking wasn't as benign as he or she ought to be, sometimes laughing along with a joke intended to elicit a negative reaction can defuse its power to harm and stop the person from making any more attempts at unkind humor.
A particularly alarming prospect is that of Chinese and American troops facing each other in North Korea with no pre-arranged mechanism for defusing a great-power stand-off.Given such scenarios, China may choose to cling to the hope that it can maintain the status quo in North Korea.
Sometimes, Hingis's expert application of finesse will defuse Davenport's power.
Freud got on the scent of transference in the late eighteen-nineties, during his early, hit-or-miss treatment of hysteria by the "cathartic method" of Josef Breuer, in which memories of the events believed to have precipitated hysterical symptoms were evoked under hypnosis — and thus presumably defused of their power over the sufferer.
Offering compassion defuses others' destructive power over you.
The talks pursued by world powers are aimed at defusing tension over Iran's nuclear works that has led to increasingly tough Western sanctions on Iran, including an EU oil embargo from July 1, and stoked fears of another Middle East war.
Tarantino has spoken grandly in the past of wanting to "defuse" the word's power, as though it was within his power to do so.
