| If anything, she has found being a woman has its advantages in terms of defusing explosive situations. |
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| Grimly, he picked up a manual on defusing explosive devices and began to skim through it, just in case. |
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| The army began searching the area on Friday and is defusing explosive devices strewn around the area by the blasts. |
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| For months even men defusing bombs had no protection against blast because they worked without bullet-proof vests. |
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| To some, it seemed like both men's actions were crucial in defusing a potentially explosive situation. |
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| A tourist attraction will invite visitors to race a motorised gondola, crack a safe and save the world by defusing a bomb. |
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| Some ragas such as Darbari-kanhara, Khamaj and Pooriya are strongly recommended for defusing tension in mind, particularly in case of hysterics. |
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| The question is whether the WTO's mechanisms are up to the task of defusing rising trade tensions with China. There are grounds for confidence. |
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| A tourist attraction to open in France will invite visitors to race a motorised gondola, crack a safe and save the world from destruction by defusing a nuclear bomb. |
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| Regional organisations play an increasing role in defusing conflicts within and between countries and in promoting human rights. |
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| Understood in this way, intercultural dialogue is a high road to forestalling conflicts or defusing them by negotiation. |
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| It is important that both parties engage in a constructive dialogue and embark on mutual measures aimed at defusing accumulated tensions. |
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| We must work toward defusing the suspicions and anger being directed at members of some ethnic minorities in our country. |
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| For allowing individuals to express their emotions and needs is fundamentally like defusing a bomb. |
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| Meanwhile, bomb experts were defusing a hand grenade found near a Buddhist temple when a second grenade exploded about 50 metres away, wounding three people. |
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| Women are known to be better than men at defusing tense situations, and yet they tend not to be assigned to posts where there is a high exposure to conflicts. |
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| While not widespread, some initiatives in Canada focus on defusing the potential criminal behaviour of young persons through social and recreational strategies. |
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| The prince withdrew as a candidate, thus defusing the crisis, but the French ambassador to Berlin would not let the issue lie. |
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| To that end, the Department endeavors to combine the institution's capacity for political analysis with its capacity for preventing, defusing, and ultimately, resolving crises and conflicts. |
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| The hard shoulder can also be used as an additional lane, especially for goods traffic, at peak times, thereby considerably defusing congestion and accident situations. |
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| These could resuscitate regionalist tensions which the central government has succeeded until now in defusing through federalism and redistribution. |
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| Will Bush Junior get credit for defusing the nuclear crisis? |
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| Most editors agree that early, constructive intervention in the thread by the authors is a way of defusing tension ordinarily but I don't think is likely to put off those with a disruptive agenda. |
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| Leaders at a summit on March 20th and 21st are expected to forgo most climate chatter for discussions on promoting industry and defusing the crisis in Ukraine. |
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| The diplomatic efforts should continue and should be intensified as the only means to bring about results in defusing the crisis and opening a window of hope for the future. |
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| The religious leaders of the area are called upon to play a vital role in this field, defusing tensions and supporting attempts to strengthen the dialogue. |
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| We need to take a pragmatic approach in order to gain those benefits of an increased return for our savers in a first attempt at defusing the pensions time-bomb. |
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| The WSF was set up in the wake of the Seattle protests as a means of defusing street confrontations by providing an ostensibly non-parliamentary milieu for anti-globalization activists. |
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| This one-day session is intended to provide drivers with various tools for defusing the difficult situations that can sometimes arise with customers. |
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| Crossborder research into freshwater resources or energy, for example, can offer integrated solutions, thus defusing tensions which arise over resource shortages. |
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| Within this context, anticipating and defusing terrorist plans, while at the same time investigating other threats to national security, requires an effective security intelligence service. |
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| Mr. Speaker, first let me commend the leader of the NDP for the help he gave in defusing the situation in the demonstrations yesterday in Toronto. |
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| Mediation has a crucial role to play in preventing the outbreak of conflicts through the timely defusing of simmering tensions, as indicated by early warning systems, if they are in place. |
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| His role when not doing work like defusing bombs and mines was to man a machine gun in a half-track. |
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| In recent months, those tactics have come to include defensive maneuvers aimed at defusing the media counteroperations of the United States and its allies. |
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| He was honoured at a ceremony in London yesterday, as was his close friend, Staff Sgt Olaf Schmid, who was killed defusing an explosive in Helmand Province last October. |
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| He dresses after games with the gingerliness of a man defusing a bomb. |
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