| I hope none of your theatre-going readers were deterred from treating themselves to a thoroughly enjoyable evening. |
| It would be a great shame if teenage boys, in whose voice the story is told, were deterred by the girl's name in the title. |
| In 1938-9 Britain and France rearmed energetically and began to face the serious prospect of war with Germany if Hitler could not be deterred. |
| How is the epidemic deterred by airline passengers shuffling through trays of disinfectant? |
| The more seriously society takes shoplifting, the more shoplifters will be deterred. |
| None of this sabre-rattling and war-mongering deterred the British middle class from cramming their sitting rooms with Japanese objets-d'art. |
