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The phrase "a significant deterrent effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or influence of a particular action, policy, or measure in discouraging certain behaviors or actions.
Example: "The new regulations are expected to have a significant deterrent effect on illegal activities in the area."
Alternatives: "a considerable discouraging impact" or "a notable preventive effect."
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"This policy will have a significant deterrent effect on those thinking of traveling here without a well-founded case".
Dublin-based charity Ruhama, which has provided services for prostitutes since 1989, said a law criminalising the buying of sex would have a significant deterrent effect.
"I did shift from being against the death penalty to thinking that if it has a significant deterrent effect it's probably justified".
Controlling for program design and household poverty, we find that compliance costs and psychological costs each have a significant deterrent effect on BDH takeup.
The court recognized that the potential threat of legal liability has a significant deterrent effect, and further said that private civil actions constitute an important mechanism for societal control of human conduct.
"The evidence on whether it has a significant deterrent effect seems sufficiently plausible that the moral issue becomes a difficult one," said Cass R. Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago who has frequently taken liberal positions.
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He rejects the idea that the prospect of execution has any significant deterrent effect.
Both the second and fourth hour of the EPG record indicated significant deterrent effect of the HrpNEa treatment on aphid feeding from the WT phloem (Table 1), but the deterrent effect was lost in atpp2-a1/E/142 atpp2-a1/E/142
But ministers believe a new offence could have an important deterrent effect on parents and relatives.
This was a significant deterrent.
We knew that the two of them would provide a significant deterrent".
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