It was American mediation between Pakistan and India that defused tension between these two nuclear powers on at least two critical occasions. |
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Hoyle's rebellions were revolts of the commons, taken over and defused by the gentry and nobility. |
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Stormy scenes and emotional outbursts at work or at home are defused due to your meditative attitude and calming influence. |
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Martin also defused any bad feelings that could have resulted from Yashin's holdout last season. |
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The alternate is that the nuclear crisis should be defused peacefully through dialogue. |
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The car's 250 kilograms of plastic explosives, with a powerful limpet mine attached as a detonator, was defused, Smith said. |
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Detectives defused the bomb, which was found under a pot plant outside the pub. |
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A bomb squad arrived, along with officers from the police's Mobile Brigade, and defused the bombs that were equipped with timers. |
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Many of the policemen injured had gathered to see the device being defused. |
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But he was trotted out for the media and expertly defused what was an overblown tiff. |
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He summoned the police, the van turned out to be packed full of a terrorist's explosives, and the bombs were defused. |
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Security guards patrolling the area informed police, who in turn notified the Bomb Disposal Unit, who defused the explosive device. |
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While it certainly won't forestall all attacks on my personhood, perhaps some will be defused. |
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The situation was defused by quick-thinking American officers who had their men take a knee, visibly disarm, and then back off slowly. |
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The bomb squad duly came and defused the bomb, and Grandpa was given a medal for his bravery. |
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He told me that he and his crew had defused or disabled over 800 of these devices in the past month. |
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Company 6 of the Royal Canadian Engineers dug tunnels at Vimy Ridge, patched up roads near Amiens and defused mines after the war. |
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To use the classic example, one could claim that he had in custody a suspect believed to have planted a time bomb that, if not defused, would kill many innocents. |
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There is no doubt that this environmental time-bomb, located at the bottom of Andreev Bay, needs to be immediately defused. |
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Having thus defused a key weapon in the immune arsenal, the bacilli flourish for years prior to killing off or debilitating their host. |
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But rather than volubly objecting to the plan, which is backed by a vocal émigré lobby in Germany, Mr Tusk blandly defused the row. |
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And yet every tale is delivered with a forgiving chuckle, every outrage defused by the affectionate admiration that Davis couldn't help inspiring in his victims. |
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We want to ensure that the funding is focused, not defused, and that it gets the attention it deserves. |
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The demolitions expert defused the bomb about 10 minutes later. |
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The White House has defused repeated threats of legislation it believed could weaken its hand or sabotage negotiations. |
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If French discontent cannot be defused, early parliamentary elections cannot be ruled out. |
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The problems can to some extent be defused by focusing very clearly on energy efficiency and energy saving. |
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I suspect that the teacher saw a situation getting out of hand, defused it skilfully, gave me a firm but slightly more sympathetic telling-off and that was the end of it. |
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But that whole situation was defused by her taking a time-out and me talking to her and explaining what I meant. |
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With our presence, the situation might be completely defused or it could go through the roof. |
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King Frederick William IV, who was crowned in 1840, defused the situation. |
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The prospect of enlargement has resolved centuries-old conflicts, settled border problems and defused minority issues. |
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Torrance and James are bosom buddies, and unless the issue is quickly defused at a meeting on Tuesday, there will inevitably be tension when the main players collide. |
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Orientalism is not defused by tourism, ecclesiastical or otherwise. |
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When it works well, the world might not even notice that a potentially harmful conflict has been defused. |
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In fact, there was only one significant demonstration against increases in the price of tortillas, and the situation was defused. |
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In this environment, the merest hint of a partisan decision could have been disastrous. Mr Bernanke's reappointment has defused that danger. |
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Blood specked a white police van nearby, and a disposal robot moved a third bomb to the middle of the street, where sappers defused it safely. |
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It could have been defused and de-escalated at any number of junctures. |
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On many occasions, he defused conflicts between his party and the others represented on the committee because of how good he was at playing with words and paying each of us compliments to smooth things over. |
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A situation ripe for personality conflict is defused. |
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Only if aggressive Serb nationalism can be defused at its source and replaced by a liberal and non-ethnic political mainstream will Serbian expansionists in other parts of the former Yugoslavia take a more moderate stance. |
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The production defused the social and psychological tensions of the piece by dressing all the characters in kooky costumes and marooning them in Martian landscapes. |
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The crisis within Fine Gael appears to have been defused for the minute with most members who spoke urging the party to move on. |
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The firepower of the monster serve and forehand might be defused a bit, but the extra time the surface gives him to get into position more than makes up for that. |
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On February 6th, a huge car bomb was defused in Medellin. |
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The illegal foundation of Tetovo university many years ago produced great tension in Macedonia, which I am sorry to say, could not be defused over the past few years. |
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All of us have been faced with an enormous series of challenges as to how we deal with defused, ill-define thing we call terrorism and terrorists. |
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However, the events of October-December 2009 in Equateur Province and in Bas-Congo in February-March 2008, showed that local conflicts can rapidly escalate if they are not quickly and effectively defused by the authorities. |
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Perhaps we should now allow the Yugoslav army to proceed to the border with Kosovo, as provided for by the UN, perhaps this threat can be partly defused? |
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The debate over who might be an honest broker was defused. |
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Every day, years after the end of the war, millions of anti-personnel mines which have not been defused are still wounding and maiming civilians, mainly children. |
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In addition, UNMEE has defused tense situations along the border. |
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A number of improvised explosive devices planted at Government buildings and political party offices were defused by the local security forces' disposal personnel and no casualties were reported. |
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While contamination from waste water overflows may be more targeted, runoff from land creates the potential for more defused contamination that also poses a risk to human health. |
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There are practical and economic issues, but also moral and philosophical dilemmas which may be defused only through a committed educational endeavor toward the public and authorities. |
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John's death had defused some of the rebel concerns, and the royal castles were still holding out in the occupied parts of the country. |
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The crisis was defused when Russia was defeated by the Japanese and agreed to pay compensation to the fishermen. |
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Howard Kurtz on how she may have defused the Beijing blowup. |
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On other hand the source noted, that explosives expert defused a bomb planted on a sideroad in Balad Ruz, district east of Baquba. |
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The Ministry of Defence said it will take the 1,000lb bomb to Kent to be destroyed once it has been defused. |
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He added that local police called BDU officials who successfully defused the bomb. |
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Hundreds of war-time bombs are still uncovered in Germany every year, although many of them are successfully defused or detonated in safe places. |
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The next couple of years under the Momoh administration were characterised by corruption, which Momoh defused by sacking several senior cabinet ministers. |
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