Administration officials have worked hard to defuse such concerns, speaking of their intention to raise difficult issues with the Burmese authorities.
Carol recalled: "Dad always used to defuse difficult situations with humour.
And learn to defuse difficult conversations or arguments rather than adding fuel to them––by being a non-violent communicator, you can help people to reach compromises and understandings instead of retreating to lick their wounds, only to come back even fiercer next time.
This approach uses acceptance and mindfulness processes, along with commitment and behavior change processes, to produce psychological flexibility; the ability to defuse from difficult thoughts and accept difficult feelings while persisting in value-based action (29).
ACT is an empirically based third generation cognitive behavioural approach that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, and commitment and behaviour change strategies to produce psychological flexibility: the ability to defuse from difficult thoughts and accept difficult feelings while persisting in values-based action.
"He was always trying to defuse a difficult situation," said Laurie Lauterbach, his wife of 30 years.
"It's about trying to defuse this difficult situation and make this work for everyone concerned".
Prime Minister David Cameron has said a decision to set up a panel to examine a parade dispute in Belfast is an attempt to "defuse" a difficult situation.
This prevents the use of image processing techniques used in the assessment of carious lesions being employed to quantify fluorosis as it becomes more difficult to reconstruct defuse lesions relative to sound enamel.
Governor Pataki's office immediately seized that as evidence that the waiver would be approved, clearly hoping to defuse a potentially difficult situation for the governor.
