Robert Lopez

When you're trying to do a traditional book musical like 'Book of Mormon,' it's always nice to have characters that could very naturally break into song, and its good to pick a subject matter that allows that to happen in a way that doesn't disarm the audience.

American Musician

Hans Blix

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

Swedish Diplomat

Lynn Good

If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the situation, anger or other things, disarm the situation in some way, and you can use different techniques to do that.

American Businesswoman

Wunmi Mosaku

I don't know what can be done about knife crime, gang culture and people carrying weapons because it's a world I don't know about, but I hope that people decide to disarm and walk away from conflict.

Nigerian Actress

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.

English Actress

Zach Anner

Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

American Comedian

Uri Geller

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

Israeli Entertainer

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

American Poet

Joseph Stalin

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Georgian Leader

George William Norris

If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.

American Politician

Usually involves taking weapons from someone by force or skill.

Physical Disarming

Often done by authorities to ensure safety during conflicts or threats.

Authority and Safety

Can be used metaphorically to mean reducing someone's defenses or arguments.

Metaphorical Use

Used when talking about making dangerous things like bombs harmless.

Danger Prevention

Disarming a device often requires professional skills and knowledge.

Technical Skill

Used to describe situations where tension or hostility is alleviated.

Emotional Diffusion

Highlights a gentle method to resolve conflict rather than force.

Nonviolent Approach

Used in context of deactivating security systems, often alarms.

Security Context

Relates to controlling who can activate or deactivate security measures.

Access Control

 But you need more than just jokes to be able to cut it as a professional comedian. You need to be able to walk that fine line between being charming and disarming. And I discovered the most effective way to generate the amount of charm I needed to offset my disarming personality was through not jokes but stories.

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 Union we began to disarm from a nuclear point of view we began to counter proliferate and we dropped the number of nuclear warheads in the world to about a total of 21,000 it's a very difficult number to deal with because what we've done is we Quantico decommissioned some of the warheads they're still probably

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 virtual reality but it really was so fantastic and then what was so disarming was that woman at the end it was so close and she was so much closer than you would ever be to somebody that you didn't know and it was so um unnerving and then it was you could just really look at her and I thought oh my god the

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 While this may sound formidable, the slow mutation rate is actually a promising sign when it comes to disarming them. After an infection, our immune systems can recognize germs and destroy them more quickly if they infect us again so they don’t make us sick.

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 President George W Bush makes one of the most scrutinized executive decisions in history to disarm Iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger the decision to preemptively invade Iraq

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 It's a wild card for disarming any reasonable criticism. "You don't like my interpretation? You've got a reasonable objection to it? Don't listen, don't listen! That's the Devil speaking."

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 And her humanity, her willingness to admit her mistake disarms me immediately, then I give her "It's okay, it happens. But thanks." And I realize in that moment that I don't have to be

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 season the shoots my responsibility so it's you know it's not good for anybody very disarmed yeah yeah it's not looking good at all just now so we really need the relative cheered up