Even as they spent the last few days traveling through Asia together, they were teaming up to try to defuse the escalating conflict in the Middle East.
A1 China stepped up an effort to defuse the North Korea nuclear crisis, offering to act as host to direct talks between the United States and North Korea should both sides agree.
A part of you feels that you should stand up and yell, to defuse tension and deflect disaster, though, as one character notes retrospectively, "nothing at all had really happened".
It is well to recall that the original contracts between Metro's owner and the regional companies were drawn up in order to defuse arguments about Metro's intrusion into the regions.
Under the cover of the artillery bombardment, the North Vietnamese Special Forces sent a small team up the mountain to defuse mines and quick-fuse grenades, and to establish their routes of infiltration.
An independent review group they set up in an effort to defuse the row is likely to recommend that pupils be taught that marriage is a good thing.The subtlety of all this manoeuvring is, however, completely lost on most voters.
JERUSALEM — Israeli officials said Wednesday that efforts were under way to calm tensions with the Obama administration and come up with a formula to defuse a diplomatic crisis over building in contested East Jerusalem.
The find sparked a search of the area for secondary devices and a helicopter was sent in to defuse up to 1,000lb of the homemade explosives, primed for use and packed into two wheelie bins at the side of the busy Monaghan Road.
Russia would benefit by boosting its own image in the world community (stepping up to the plate to defuse a volatile situation), and by using its weight to perhaps get the United Nations to approve such a mission.
"I'll be like, 'Why don't you tell me one?'" She and former castmate Danny Tamberelli, who took over the Vital Information desk when Denberg left the show in 1998, have even come up with a system to defuse the situation when either of them are asked.
