Sentence examples for would be defused from inspiring English sources

Mr. Wells had also said the man told him he must rob the bank and return with the money before the bomb would be defused.

In a statement, Occupy Central said Leung's refusal to enter direct talks with people had driven Hong Kong into a crisis of disorder, which would be defused by his resignation.

Tensions between America and Europe over energy investments in Iran would be defused and more economical pipeline routes would be feasible for oil and gas from newly developed fields in the Caspian basin.

His idea was to create a "strong democracy" in which political tension would be defused by giving space to elite opposition groups, but in which excluded sectors, particularly peasants and industrial workers, would continue to be systematically repressed.

The IEDs would have to be defused in the morning light, so we spent the night at a French base, lulled to sleep by the purr of armoured vehicle engines in a mud-brick fort; it was almost as if Mali were still a French colony.

The IEDs would have to be defused in the morning light, so we spent the night at a French base, lulled to sleep by the purr of armored vehicle engines in a mud-brick fort; it was almost as if Mali were still a French colony.

For the current trans-Atlantic crisis to be defused, the White House would do well to steer between those extremes and to treat its European allies as what they are -- citizens of independent states, each with an idiosyncratic history and geography.

"Weapons of mass destruction" must be defused.

Obesity: a time bomb to be defused.

Had Israel taken the initiative as part of its unilateral withdrawal from Gaza to release the Palestinian prisoners, much of the tension would have been defused.

It is far from clear that Fed policy was driving indebtedness as Mr Klein alleges.As an aside, it's also quite probable that the situation would have been defused by more expansionary, rather than more contractionary, monetary policy.