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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.
The European Union's trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, and the chief trade negotiator of China, Gao Hucheng, left, failed to defuse a dispute over the surge in Chinese textile exports to the union during a meeting in Brussels last night.
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.
Still, a more clinical perspective failed to defuse this potent mix of composer and interpreter.
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.
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.
The uproar over the Red Cross's original plans for the funds raised after Sept. 11 forced it to reverse course and pledge to disburse all the money to the victims of the attacks, but that failed to defuse the controversy.
But the outpouring from blacks in Florida has made it clear that Mr. Bush's plan, an effort to fend off a more severe public referendum on affirmative action like those that passed in California and Washington, had failed to defuse the issue.
Her family, who have viewed the video, believe that police failed to defuse the situation using the kind of crisis management techniques that are now taught as standard in many police departments across the country, including in San Antonio, which has made the proper handling of encounters that have the potential to turn violent a priority in recent years.
