Sentence examples for efforts at defusing the from inspiring English sources
If your first efforts at defusing the situation aren't working, it's time to take your tactics to the next level.
His attempt at defusing the situation failed.
Both are concessions to the opposition aimed at defusing the crisis.
That way you get a head start at defusing the bomb.
Saudi Arabia, in a slap at American efforts to defuse the crisis, dispatched troops to Bahrain to help crush the protesters.
Efforts to defuse the crisis have not been helped by divisions among the other major players in the region.
In Gidding's version, the airship is delayed by a storm, frantic efforts to defuse the bomb fail, and the Hindenburg is destroyed.
The chance that such a conflict might turn into a nuclear confrontation prompted international efforts to defuse the crisis.
A military official, privy to the meeting, said that the military commanders agreed to make efforts to defuse the situation and de-escalate the tensions with the United States.
He said he was spending most of Monday urging regional leaders to increase military support and "political backing for efforts to defuse the crisis".
