Sentence examples for a formidable deterrent from inspiring English sources

India built the 341-mile fence along the disputed border between 2003 and 2004 to prevent the infiltration of militants, who used mountain passes to move back and forth between Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Indian-controlled-Kashmir. Motion censors and electrification in places make the fence a formidable deterrent for the militants.

While Petr Veliky was not really maneuverable enough to make full use of these weapons, they were a formidable deterrent to other ships trying to ram.

Even if siloed ICBMs were eliminated, the United States would retain a formidable deterrent with bombers and submarines containing many hundreds of strategic weapons capable of destroying any adversary.

Armed with a formidable nuclear deterrent, Israel is by far the strongest state in the region.

Branch workers around the country described to me a feeling during this period that they were being kept out on the shop floor as a hindrance, but no real impediment, to incident; on display like scarecrows, and about as formidable a deterrent.

This would be a powerful deterrent to would-be hijackers, a formidable last line of defense.

"He's a formidable candidate".

That was a formidable problem.

"You are a formidable couple.

They made a formidable team.

"It was a formidable assignment".