Sentence examples for may be defused from inspiring English sources

These could ease the tension, and the threat from Mr Besigye may be defused.

A chinking time bomb may be defused, but it will rattle.

Some days, officials say things that raise the hope the crisis may be defused.

And questions about the factivity of K may be defused rather quickly, since related paradoxes emerge replacing the factive operator "It is known that" with a non-factive operators, such as 'It is rationally believed that' (Mackie 1980: 92; Edgington 1985: 558 559; Tennant 1997: 252 259; Wright 2000: 357).

Taming the infamous San Andreas fault with buried nuclear bombs or deep grease injections is the stuff of science fiction, but Mother Nature herself may be defusing a major fault in Taiwan, China.

China's Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday that Myanmar, long called Burma, had "promised to restore peace and stability along the border," and some local news reports suggest that the confrontation in Wa State may yet be defused.

But if they do - and that is a big "if" - one of the most dangerous crises in the Middle East may finally be defused.

"Weapons of mass destruction" must be defused.

That process will take a while, and by the time the ruling is issued, the dispute may have been defused by the march of events.

Any reservations you may have about Newton's objectification and exploitation of these women are defused by all the power he gives them.

Some are defused.