Sentence examples for to be defused from inspiring English sources

In addition, the Taj was littered with unexploded grenades, which had to be defused.

"The tension needs to be defused, war needs to be avoided," General Musharraf said.

Mayer said in one of his memos ahead of the meeting that this issue needed to be "defused" in advance.

It was, as Stephen Hester described it, the biggest financial time bomb in history and it needed to be defused.

"What about the Blitz?" "We did have to stop for five days when a high-explosive bomb was dropped outside and had to be defused," he conceded.

"We think this is going to be defused," said Emmanuel Ndahiro, a spokesman for Rwanda's army and an aide to President Kagame.

A two-month standoff between China and the Philippines at the shoal appeared to have been defused last weekend, when a typhoon forced Philippine fishing boats and a navy vessel to leave.

Then, for a short while, the tension seemed to have been defused, despite the mingling of the two opposing crowds.

Most of them appeared to have been defused, but a few live, small rockets, as well as several hundred live large caliber rounds, were found among the litter.

An altercation between United's Pat Crerand and Peter Dobing seemed to have been defused when Partridge – deploying the man-management skills for which he became renowned – pulled Crerand close so that the Scot's head looked over his shoulder.

Fraser's appearances saw protests, and a letter bomb sent to Kerr was defused by authorities.