Sentence examples for needed to defuse from inspiring English sources

Climate change is a slow, grinding crisis but urgent action is needed to defuse it.

Second, Mr Brown needed to defuse the pensioner anger that erupted at Labour's conference in Brighton following this year's 75p increase in the basic state pension.

The difference is that now we have used up all slack in the schedule for actions needed to defuse the global warming time bomb.

But based on the most recently publicly available text, the law may fall short of what is needed to defuse the Trump administration's concerns, according to some U.S. experts.

The furor that followed the remarks seems now to have been part of the catalyst that persuaded Swiss leaders to make a critical policy shift and acknowledge that a bold political move was needed to defuse the crisis.

OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- As four days of ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan threatened to build into a major refugee crisis on Monday, both sides of the conflict were calling on Russia to step in, saying third-party peacekeepers were needed to defuse standoffs between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz.

I know that I need to defuse his anchor, but I'm not sure how.

"We need to defuse this whole concept that David Icke is an anti-Semite," said Brian.

If you think a disgruntled supplier intends to follow through on his threat to smear your good name, you need to defuse the situation.

Yet given the impenetrability of Wall Street, some argue that we have no other option but to rely on financial insiders to staff regulatory agencies: When you need to defuse a bomb, you hire someone intimately familiar with explosives.

But if Lee really wants to keep Twitter– and thousands more tech jobs– in San Francisco he needs to defuse this much bigger ticking tax time-bomb now.