The phrase "aimed to deter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions or policies intended to prevent certain behaviors or outcomes, often in contexts related to law, security, or behavior modification.
Example: "The new regulations were aimed to deter companies from engaging in unethical practices."
Alternatives: "intended to prevent" or "designed to discourage".
This is the ACA "employer mandate," aimed to deter employers from dumping their existing health care plans.
The policy, led by the extremist settler movement, is aimed to deter Israel's policy makers from evacuating illegal outposts by collecting a "price tag" of vandalism on Palestinian property for every such action.
Within hours, President George Bush had blamed Bin Laden and begun planning a major campaign that aimed to deter what were seen to be the states giving terrorists safe havens, and rooting out the terrorists themselves through aggressive military action.
Air defenses, like those fielded by countries such as Russia and China, have become increasingly more advanced and are being deployed in ways that are specifically aimed to deter U.S. aircraft and counter their capabilities.
Stepping up prosecutions aimed to deter others, HMRC estimated £295m would be yielded just by that deterrent effect, but now admit it can find no evidence these 1,000 prosecutions had "led to changes in behaviour or increases in tax revenues".
The well-being of foreign nationals was further undermined by the USA Patriot Act in 2001 and was threatened in 2006 by the Sensenbrenner bill, which aimed to deter illegal immigration through strict enforcement of draconian new restrictions; it failed to become law, but a similar strategy underlies Arizona's 2010 anti-illegal-immigration law.
In particular, we aimed to deter-mine whether such protocols have a beneficial effect on renal function and to what extent this treatment involves increased fluid administration in comparison with control groups treated according to the standard of care.
While the system aims to deter offenders, the outcomes for children protect neither the individual nor the community.
This approach aims to deter cyber criminals and to ensure that businesses' IT and financial resources are more efficiently used.
The plan, which the opposition criticized as cruel and ineffective, aims to deter asylum seekers from coming to Australia.
Booksellers have championed the now annual movement, which aims to deter shoppers from the online giant in the lead up to Christmas.
