Sentence examples for failed to defuse from inspiring English sources
Still, a more clinical perspective failed to defuse this potent mix of composer and interpreter.
As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, starting in 2003, he watched over – and failed to defuse – the buildup of systemic risk.
Talks over the weekend failed to defuse the crisis and the UN sent in hundreds of Ukrainian and Polish riot police.
MacGruber repeatedly failed to defuse a ticking bomb because of his depression, alcoholism, racism, or growing attraction to his grandmother, and was repeatedly blown to pieces.
But for all the changes under Mr. Hu, many analysts said he failed to defuse growing problems with pollution, local government debt and a recipe for growth too dependent on state-mandated lending and land confiscations.
The reported killing in January of Pakistan's Taliban leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, by an American drone not only failed to defuse the fight there; as officials said last week, the reports may not even have been true.
The more the police fail to defuse confrontations but instead help create them — be it with their equipment, tactics or demeanor — the more ties with community members are burned, he said.
It would fail to defuse an issue that has haunted Scotland's politics, bruised its relations with England and caused embarrassment for Britain abroad.Thatcher's childrenThe campaign to devolve power to Scotland has deep roots.
He warned that U.S. and European Union threats to impose new sanctions on Russia if the Geneva agreement fails to defuse the crisis were "absolutely unacceptable," intimating that any such punishment could drive Russia to more forceful action.
Also on Saturday, US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Francois Hollande warned of "new measures" against Moscow if it failed to make progress on defusing the crisis in Ukraine.
At the time, the EC viewed the agreement as a method of defusing the crisis and failed to attribute the lull which coincided with the Brioni Agreement to a shift in Serbian strategy instead.
