(1) Barack Obama today phoned the white policeman he said had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard professor in his own home and invited the officer to visit the White House as the president attempted to defuse a growing race row over the incident.
(2) Moments later, Deputy Chief Tom Roberts, of Las Vegas Metro, defused the situation by delivering the announcement that Cliven Bundy's cattle would be returned within 30 minutes.
(3) Winning a global consensus would defuse the Russia versus the west stand-off and put Putin under huge moral and international pressure to agree.
(4) Church leaders in Kisumu, in the west of Kenya that was devastated five years ago, sought to defuse tension this time.
(5) All the parents … worry about their children because the kids need to go to school but safety and security … is a big concern.” The Nauruan government has made efforts to defuse local hostility.
(6) What came out instead was a substantive document, involving concrete steps towards defusing the crisis.
(7) After a week in which Obama has been accused of failing to deal openly with crises such as the the targeting of Tea Party activists by the Internal Revenue Service, the White House hope it can defuse concern over drones and Guantánamo by being more transparent about its objectives.
(8) But to defuse any possible tensions, the authorities had decided that the teams should mix together as they lined up and that the Marseillaise should be sung by Lââm, a young R&B singer of Franco-Tunisian extraction.
(9) And she attacked Chancellor George Osborne and Chief Whip Michael Gove for failing to use their "very, very close" relations with the Israeli Government to defuse the crisis.
(10) Three seasons in the media spotlight in Madrid have clearly done him no harm, and when a potentially mischievous question comes along about England temporarily transferring their support to Wales he defuses it politely and diplomatically.
(11) A month later the company offered to pay £10m a year in corporate taxes in Britain for two years as it sought to defuse mounting protests.
(12) Enemies dismiss its moderate image and claim it is no different from Shia hardliners such as Mushayma, who called for a republic to replace the Al Khalifa dynasty, launched a campaign of civil disobedience and destroyed a dialogue between the opposition and the reformist Crown Prince Salman that might – just – have defused the crisis.
(13) The code, introduced in February by the Association of British Bookmakers, was meant to tighten betting controls and defuse criticism of FOBTs, on which punters can bet up to £300 a minute.
(14) Ronald “ count me in as a rebel ” Reagan won the presidency in 1980, but his administration actually defused the movement with a plan to sell the land to private owners – owners who would not share grazing rights with the rebellious ranchers.
(15) My wife thinks I will come home one day in pieces in a box.” Hom had been defusing bombs, rockets and shells for five of his 20 years in the Gaza police.
(16) The health secretary moved to defuse widespread anger at his threat to impose new terms and conditions on them by offering two major concessions and assurances that they will not see their pay cut or working hours extended .
(17) He dismisses as "recycling" a pact announced by the prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault – a former Breton mayor – last month to defuse the red caps' protests, providing for €2m of investment in the region.
(18) The patient's behaviour secondary to the defusion is discussed from the point of view of social significance as well as potential dangerousness.
(19) In Beit Lahiya, he defused a 1,000kg bomb that had landed in a bike repair shop.
(20) On Wednesday, as Hom set out to defuse the 500kg bomb which killed him, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were continuing indirect talks in Cairo aimed at a putting a durable ceasefire in place.
Shapeless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an earlier demonstration binocular shapes were produced from monocularly shapeless, random-dot stereo images.
(2) A week ago, the plane was a shapeless lump of metal.
(3) The story goes that when Freeman took the garment to be dry-cleaned, it came back looking like a shapeless ball of fluff, but he continued to wear it regardless.
(4) Around its foot is precisely the sort of shapeless, windswept, nothing place that we were supposed to have learned not to do in the 1970s.
(5) Early on in the evolution of cinema sound a number of theorists recognised this power and said the ability to manipulate sound creatively will redeem us from the chaos of shapeless noise.
(6) In cells where no persistent nucleoli as such were noted, nucleolar material was observed to attach to the chromosomes in shapeless masses which moved with the chromosomes during anaphase.
(7) They are political, argues its founder, Deborah Coughlin, because they dress in shapeless cloaks so the audience can't judge them by their bodies, because they support each other, and because they sing about women's real lives, rather than fantasy.
(8) But those who have not lost the power to examine themselves will probably find something basically true in the prolix, shapeless study of a futile frustrated wretch, even if they do not get as far as extending much sympathy to him.
(9) Anxiety in this mode consists of an unspeakable terror of the dissolution of boundedness resulting in feelings of leaking, falling or dissolving into endless, shapeless space.
(10) Not imposing and shapeless, not heavy to the point of having drooped, but, rather, something with a bit of shape … A real chest is round, comfortable, welcoming, and one should be able to put one’s nose into the middle with jubilation.” The weekly L’Express complained under the headline “The macho-erotic thoughts of Edouard Philippe’s hero” .
(11) Clearly, not all men are like cliches from Nuts magazine and want women in skintight clothes, but I would wager that most men prefer it when women wear clothes that fit them as opposed to shapeless sacks.
(12) Studies of the effects of the anthelminthic agent albendazole on the tissues of D. latum in vivo showed large shapeless protrusions of the outer tegumental cytoplasm on the surface of strobila, the mitochondrial degeneration in the tegumental cells and their nucleolar material segregation.
(13) Touré had his moments, and Jesús Navas offered flashes of quality down the flank, but too much of the visitors’ approach was shapeless, lacking composure in the face of QPR’s bite and energy.
(14) Yet amid much slapdash, shapeless, helter-skelter stuff – for prolonged spells it seemed more like a Championship game – Fabricio Coloccini should have given Newcastle an early lead.
(15) Unlike 80s fashion, there was no sense of fun in it, just a jaded, "I'm too cool to try, and that's why I'm wearing my shapeless slip dress over my bad jeans".
(16) All a bit shapeless, but there's less than 30 seconds gone, so there's plenty of time.
(17) Instead, the game meandered along rather shapelessly, not helped by a raft of substitutions and ending with a half-hearted attempt at the Mexican wave and some of the fans behind one goal amusing themselves by batting around a beach ball.
(18) A science-fiction film released in 1958 depicts how the "Blob", a giant shapeless amoeba-like alien, takes over a small American town and defies every attempt to destroy it .
(19) Does anyone know where I can buy a shapeless hemp shift dress?
(20) Whether considering the meagre tally of 10 points from 12 games since Manchester City were beaten here in September, or assessing this shapeless performance against a team who started in the bottom three and set up to avoid defeat, the Villa manager has to stem a spiral that is dragging his team into another battle against relegation.