Sentence examples for somehow defuse from inspiring English sources

In fact, the president hopes that with this trip he can somehow defuse the situation in Kashmir.

"Both sides are now trying to pull back from the brink and somehow defuse the situation," said Talat Masood, a retired general and military analyst.

The case reached the constitutional court this week, generating bitter comment that cultural and political differences between judges are placing an unbearable strain on the legal system.Mr Langa must somehow defuse all this, while resisting executive meddling.

An obvious danger of showing the available Abu Ghraib pictures like this is that the setting might somehow defuse the content, turning the images into just one more artful provocation.

The wisest approach might be to somehow defuse collective tensions before they erupt as destructive behavior.

I think they can now be told because they are somehow defused -- moving, not dangerous.

Though I confess to needing plenty of help, I have an aversion to self-help books, an aversion that Aunt Epp's brisk manner somehow defused.

A conflict with the Professor's overprotective sister-in-law is somehow defused by the writing down of Euler's formula on a scrap of paper.

The sidewalk became a gray battlefield littered with smooshy brown landmines that were somehow not defused and thrown into the trash.

Still, somehow, here was Mr. Richardson trying to defuse a nuclear confrontation involving North Korea.

And there's never so much as a raised voice in this set-up, so maybe people are just on best behaviour, but somehow the tension is defused.