Sentence examples for was defused with from inspiring English sources

Days of tension followed, but in the end there was no military strike, no invasion, and the crisis was defused with a Soviet agreement, announced on Oct. 28, to withdraw the missiles.

The moment was defused with a handshake between the two men, but the point was made: Even the glittering façade of a popular motor show cannot hide the bleak economic realities of the European auto industry.

Tensions in the house are defused with group bicycle rides.

Those who know him insist that the encounter could have been defused with patience and sensitivity.

"History suggests that the odds are favorable that current imbalances will be defused with little disruption," he declared in a speech two weeks ago.

No question, the world's major economies badly need 2010 to be another quiet year politically and geopolitically, but that will require, at a minimum, that three major struggles — the banks vs. President Obama, China vs. Google & friends, and the world vs. Iran — can be defused with win-win compromises rather than win-lose confrontations.

'The association called for Celtic fans to boycott the Daily Record and I'm pleased many fans have stopped buying the paper.' According to a senior source at Parkhead, lawyers acting for the Record have been in touch suggesting the situation could be defused with a deal.

"Should globalization continue unfettered and thereby create an ever more flexible international financial system, history suggests that current account imbalances will be defused with modest risk of disruption".

The "fiscal cliff" was his best chance yet to secure a grand bargain of big tax hikes and major spending cuts by creating an artificial political crisis that supposedly could only be defused with a huge deficit reduction package.

The situation was defused only with help from President Clinton.

After a confrontation with Iran was defused, The Guardian, the British newspaper, exulted, "America wields only a big stick these days, but the old continent believes in a combination of little sticks and juicy carrots".