Sentence examples for had been defused from inspiring English sources
Once more the Eastern Question had been defused and Germany's alliances preserved.
Ali demonstrated the ease with which the pin could be removed from the detonator just after assuring the court that the device had been defused.
The tension, for now at least, had been defused, and perhaps there was a lesson in that exchange for all who will race and lose against Semenya in the meets and seasons ahead.
A spokesman for the International Security and Assistance Force in Kabul, Squad Leader Peter Maskell, said a second bomb had been found next to the explosion site and had been defused by French explosives experts.
A security official said two bombs left behind by the attackers had been defused.
Shortly after the shootings, soldiers and police officers evacuated buildings in the vicinity of the Convent, while bomb-disposal experts got to work; four hours later, the authorities announced that a car bomb had been defused, after which Savage's white Renault was towed from the car park by an army truck.
Those who know him insist that the encounter could have been defused with patience and sensitivity.
A matter that might have been concerning for a politician heading into postsession town hall meetings has been defused.
Some of the tension between donors and administrators has been defused in recent years by careful matchmaking.
Then, for a short while, the tension seemed to have been defused, despite the mingling of the two opposing crowds.
