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How to use deterring in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word deterring? Here are some examples.

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It clearly makes nuclear weapons a tool for fighting a war, rather than deterring them.
The order is aimed at deterring anti-social behaviour and preventing escalation of the behaviour, without recourse to criminal sanctions.
Development of the teacher-student relationship is critical to deterring or decreasing incivilities.
Energy from the magnet is designed to elongate the atoms in the clubface, deterring metal fatigue and strengthening the face.
He adopted the New Look strategy to meet the dual risk of deterring nuclear war and containing communist expansion.
Far from deterring people, a dangerous edge and a high profile increase the desirability of the sport.
The only sure way of deterring them is to have an electric fence built around the perimeter of the garden.
The Navy maintains, trains and equips combat-ready naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and securing freedom of the seas.
The Aborigines were nomadic hunter-gatherers who did not have a concept of possessing territory or of deterring trespassers from it.
At a time like this, it is fair to ask if identity cards would have any effect in deterring terrorism.
Good policing and tough sentencing have pushed New York to a tipping point, deterring some potential malefactors from crime.
The government's measures are directed at deterring refugees from seeking safe haven in Australia by treating them as harshly as possible.
It is a life that can lull anyone into a peaceful sloth, deterring the person from doing anything at all.
But when many states threaten each other for incongruent purposes, who is to do the deterring, and in the face of what provocation?
Other postcopulatory calls function in prolonging lordosis of the mated female, attracting other females or deterring males.
You can't suggest that legislation from the EU is hampering future growth and deterring entrepreneurship under Labour, but people want to.
The military working dogs have been invaluable for deterring criminal activity in the newly independent country.
The deterrents could well prove useful in deterring them from kerb-crawling and helping to make Goitside respectable again.
For over 50 years our country, with our allies, has sought to avoid war by deterring potential aggressors.
And in the same vein there is a need to do away with corruption, a public disease, nepotism, favouritism, racism and other administrative deterring activities.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Punishment is efficacious in deterring from crime only if it be certain and speedy.
So far from this deterring Engels, it was just this which made his task attractive.
The process of driving out, and also of deterring, has failed.
It could be inferred from Table 5 above that the laws used in deterring non indigenes from having knowledge of the community's culture is not consistent with government's law.
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