Intervening doesn't necessarily mean physically stopping something or resulting in violence, there are plenty of ways to diffuse a situation.
We are doing just that in an effort to make MIT a place where leaders of these innovations come together to share experiences, stimulate research needed to document their successes, failures and lessons, and figure out ways to diffuse those that work to broader settings.
Smart negotiators realise that the best way to diffuse the pressure of our own expectations is to simply acknowledge these pressures and then put them to one side.
Even yesterday, temporarily sagging, Capriati was tossing her racket and begging Papa Stefano with her eyes for a way to diffuse Williams's power.
"Connecting Montague Street to the park is a much more effective way to diffuse traffic and to tie the park to the people who live and work in the neighborhood," he said.
Based on Chinese communications with Iran, VFM He said, he thought it would be difficult for Iran to refuse talks, since entering into dialogue was the only way to diffuse tensions.
Contrary to the experience of earlier years, when the N.R.A.'s supporters in Congress kept the firearms agency's budget small, Ms. Ginsburg came up with a way to diffuse Congressional opposition.
To account for the crucial role of male friendship in the genesis of American literature, he refers to Tocqueville's idea that in a democracy intimate, personal commitments give way to "diffuse, impersonal associations".
By the early 20th century, as the Industrial Revolution led to a growing gap between rich and poor, leading figures like President Theodore Roosevelt and the steel baron and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie began promoting estate taxes as a way to diffuse a concentration of wealth that they considered a threat to democracy.
Dig a bit deeper and you'll realise that Microsoft meetings are a way to diffuse and evade responsibility for decisions.
The best way to diffuse a potential disaster, Rothrock says, is to acknowledge the problem and have a sense of humor about it.
