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Allan Stewart had flushed with discomfiture at the defusing of his story.

However, the defusing of a mine dropped by aircraft at Shoeburyness in November allowed a solution to be developed within one week.

Thus the defusing of the showdown over the missiles does not mean that the confrontation between Baghdad and Washington is over.

What could be sillier, really, than a fictional hero who has turned even the defusing of nuclear weapons into a groan-worthy cliché?

He is the author and the namesake of the "Schnellhardt compromise" aimed at the defusing of the "vodka war".

Following the defusing of the Berlin crisis, the 151st was returned to Knoxville in August 1962 and reverted to Tennessee state control.

In the days since the election, Mr. Gore has repeatedly called for a defusing of the heated language that has inflamed partisans on both sides of the aisle.

Small Consolation The defusing of the balloon may be small consolation to the estimated 12,000 drivers who have enough difficulty negotiating the crossroads of the world in a normal evening rush.

Von Smallhausen starts reading "The Gestapo Handbook on the Defusing of Detonators", but as he tries to defuse the bomb, he accidentally sets off the timing mechanism.

Here in the Security Council today, members finally agreed to a statement that was largely limited to calling for a cease-fire, the defusing of tensions and the dispatch of an envoy "to establish the facts."

He pursues Aramov, catching her in the tunnels before heading to a nearby park to aid in the defusing of several viral bombs, where he learns that Aramov has escaped custody.

Conceptually Aberkane argues for a prescriptive use of peace and conflict studies, especially in a study on the defusing of the tensions in Xinjiang by which he defends the logical soundness of the concept of a "war against war" in five points:

It defines the concept of common security as having to do above all with economic and social stability, the defusing of ethnic tensions and the promotion of ongoing integration; a security, that is, which extends beyond military confrontation and conflict and must be the model for the twenty-first century.