But China s public failure to distance itself from the North s military provocations has undermined its credibility in efforts to defuse the crisis.

India had called for the easing of the restrictions placed on the Palestinian areas and for action to defuse the mounting humanitarian crisis.

Recent international events had shown to what extent an international criminal court was wanting, for its mere existence would have helped defuse grave crisis situations.

The most important achievement of Kennedy s brief presidency was to manage the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and defuse what was probably the riskiest episode since the dawn of the nuclear age.

Ours, I believe, is the responsibility to defuse this time bomb.

We call upon the belligerent parties to work further to defuse the situation.

Erdogan has moved to defuse the current crisis by declaring that he will seek early elections as well as sweeping constitutional changes that would make the president popularly elected, rather than elected by the parliament.

Calls for moderation and calm from all sides helped considerably to defuse the situation.

I have concentrated today on how we deal with crises and defuse tensions.

Last year, we showed how rapidly we could mobilize when we deployed a monitoring mission to the Caucasus in less than three weeks to help defuse the crisis between Russia and Georgia, following the EU mediated peace agreement.

UNMIS remains in contact with the parties involved, and is taking steps to defuse the situation.

My Government deploys all of its available assets to help defuse and resolve these crises.

My Government deploys all of its available assets to help defuse and resolve these crises.

Behind the scenes, the Asian powers can help to defuse the crises in Darfur, North Korea, Myanmar, and elsewhere.

Perhaps we should defuse the threats posed by a surveillance society by having an annual day of amnesty.

These investigations have served as a confidence building mechanism and helped to defuse tension in the border area.

The strategy worked well, and helped defuse Islamic opposition to the wrenching changes that accompanied the country s rapid economic modernization.

We expand. We take the feeling about remembering a mama, and we defuse that to all beings in this meditation.

UNOSOM political and military elements are working with elders of all clans factions to defuse tension in the Kismayo region.

We expand. We take the feeling about remembering a mama, and we defuse that to all beings in this meditation.

This indeed is the wise choice and the only way to settle conflict and defuse the crises that are tearing apart today's societies.

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The crisis is a crisis in consciousness.

Security is an obvious priority, and that means being able to defuse tensions by economic rather than military means.

One can well understand a Turkish policy of trying to defuse tensions with Iran over that country s nuclear program.

The European Union urges Nigeria and Cameroon to work constructively together to establish the facts of the incidents and to defuse any resultant tension.

Georgia has tried to defuse tensions over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but Russia accuses Georgia of aggression and ethnic cleansing.

Indeed, he warns that the South China Sea could evolve into another Palestine, unless countries try harder to defuse rather than inflame tensions.

The crisis especially now, is a crisis in consciousness.

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But, to avoid a cataclysm, the US and its allies must defuse the bomb by enforcing the provisions of the 2005 CPA, which they all endorsed.

The presence of UNPROFOR is an integral part of the cease fire agreement and has without doubt helped to defuse the tension and stabilize the situation.

None of the three countries has yet found a stable institutional solution that can defuse intensifying internal tensions and respond effectively to popular demands.

America is in crisis the economy, national security, the climate crisis.

It was hoped that the report would defuse the hostilities between Japan and China and would thus help maintain peace and stability in the Far East.

For the moment, at least, the ruling has served to defuse the emotionally charged debate stirred up by the case in this overwhelmingly Catholic and indigenous country.

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The financial crisis.

But the underlying reasons for the boom differ from crisis to crisis.

But why is the technical overload crisis, the complexity crisis, accelerating now?

Moreover, with a real prospect of joining Europe, Turkey would be better placed to defuse actual and potential tensions between Europe and the Middle East.

At its core, the global economic crisis is a growth crisis.

But the evolution of the Greek crisis is different from the Asian crisis.