He'd gone fishing only twice that year, and the second time, when his companion started threatening a monk seal in the vicinity, the Kid said that he de-escalated the situation by telling his friend that NOAA now implanted tiny security cameras in the animals' eyes and would be watching them.
OK, de-escalate –If something de-escalates, it becomes less intense.
In the thirties he'd fled Germany with his family to escape the Nazis, he'd become a brilliant academic at Harvard, joined Nixon's government in the late sixties, successfully pursued détente with China and the Soviet Union, let the Vietnam War escalate, squandering tens of thousands of lives, so he could de-escalate it later on his own terms and win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
He could de-escalate the situation — or, at very least, shift the course of the discussion — but his pride won't allow it.
Dunn said he asked, "Are you talking about me?" Dunn testified that he tried to de-escalate the situation, but he said the teenager was "showing me a gun and he's threatening me.
Mr Puigdemont told the regional parliament that the "people's will" was to break away from Madrid, but he also said he wanted to "de-escalate" the tension around the issue.
If he hopes to de-escalate tensions, Trump will need to follow a careful roadmap, forming an open dialogue with Kim and pressuring Pyongyang to cease its development of nuclear weapons.
It's clear from his history that he is a convinced protectionist, and that he believes, as he tweeted a few days ago, that "tariffs are the greatest". In all likelihood, he only agreed to de-escalate the dispute with Europe because he had no choice.
Updated at 10.43am BST 9.42am BST Ukraine prime minister: Russia-led guerillas will be held responsible Ukraine's prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has vowed to bring to account those who committed this "crime against humanity" as he called on President Putin to de-escalate what he described as an "international and global conflict".
He said he expected Mr Erdogan to "de-escalate the situation, in the spirit of European values".
Fully a year before his 1970 memo to Mr. Nixon recommending that the acrimonious issue of race "could benefit from a period of benign neglect," he explained that to "de-escalate the rhetoric of crisis" "does not mean reducing efforts.
