Sentence examples for act of deterrence from inspiring English sources

"It is deliberate policy to harm people mentally and physically as an act of deterrence.

[In fact] the act of deterrence may be no more than a hint here and a quiet word there..

Even if they admitted that it was a far from ideal strategy, many I spoke to defended the government's actions as a necessary act of deterrence, an effective show of strength.

"Justice is part of deterrence," a senior official said.

But the precautionary principle is also an act of faith in deterrence, and this is one of the key issues for lawyers.

The deployment of tactical nukes, he explained, was meant to act as a form of "deterrence," given India's "Cold Start" military doctrine -- a reputed contingency plan aimed at punishing Pakistan in a major way for any unacceptable provocations like a mass-casualty terrorist strike against India.

The lessons drawn from the economic analysis of illegal acts, which shows that the level of deterrence hinges on a combination of effects associated with the intensiveness of surveillance and the severity of the sanction stresses the importance to define an optimal deterrent policy (c) [3, 13].

Even when officials make correct judgments about which acts to excuse, citizens may draw mistaken inferences, and restraints of deterrence and norm acceptance may be weakened for unjustified acts that resemble justified ones (Greenawalt, 1987, 273).

The review's other main recommendation places greater reliance on non-nuclear precision weapons and missile defenses to strengthen deterrence against attacks by weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological and nuclear weapons) and for use against acts of aggression if deterrence fails.

The act was harmless — not in the sense of hypothetical damages or the circular logic of deterrence theory (that's lawyerly logic), but in John Stuart Mill's sense, meaning that there was no actual physical harm, nor actual economic harm.

Towards the end of May, Nasser increasingly exchanged his positions of deterrence for deference to the inevitability of war, under increased pressure to act by both the general Arab populace and various Arab governments.