Sentence examples for act to deter from inspiring English sources

Under what circumstances will America act to deter troublemakers?

This is why standstill arrangements for a competing bidder can often act to deter offers.

It is an act to deter war, to make the last option the use of force.

The report does however see the possibility for such apps to be abused and recommends "sham contracting provisions in the Fair Work Act, to deter misclassification of legitimate employees as independent contractors".

It is an act to deter war, to put in place the tools for our president, our secretary of state, to get the strongest possible resolution in the United Nations.

They were read passages from the Official Secrets Act to deter them from speaking out, according to the source.

Until three years ago, Europe mostly acted to deter migrant boats, as Italian ships and those of Europe's border agency, Frontex, pursued the "pushback" tactics along the Libyan coastline.

All this is a good example of what is known as "directed deterrence," in which a chemical in fruit acts to deter some species that consume seeds in favor of species that disperse them.

My former teacher, the late Telford Taylor [a prosecutor at Nuremberg], taught me that war crimes prosecutions – under any circumstance – signified failure: failure to act, failure to deter, and finally failure to prevent.

The episode also models a way for men and women to "act" jointly to deter inappropriate sexual behavior.

Nor are the forward deployment of U.S. or NATO troops in Eastern Europe or other such Cold-War-ish acts likely to deter Moscow from a careful balancing act: ensuring that Russia's sphere of influence in Ukraine remains strong without compromising trade and commercial, as well as political, ties with the European Union -- above all, with strategic partner Germany.