Sentence examples for are designed to deter from inspiring English sources

These are quite standard and are designed to deter rival bidders from breaking up the party.

The agency is closely scrutinizing efforts by drug makers to develop drugs that are designed to deter abuse.

The city has also fitted 200 intersections with dummy cameras that are designed to deter violations by flashing strobe lights, as do the real red-light cameras.

The fines may be harder for drivers to pay than for teams, but both are designed to deter future rule infractions.

Another alarmingly plausible possibility during the present century is that weapons of mass destruction, which are designed to deter, will be acquired by deluded people for whom deterrence has no meaning.

The rules, which come into force on Tuesday 1 July, are designed to deter lenders from offering loans to borrowers who cannot afford to repay them over the original term, and to protect those who struggle with repayments from incurring spiralling costs.

The bench's graffiti-resistant sloping surface is designed to deter both sleeping and skateboarding.

On the legislative front, some rules have already been designed to deter biological warfare and terrorism.

He denied that the prosecutions were designed to deter legitimate whistle-blowing.

The camps were designed to deter boat people and to take the corrosive issue off the political radar at home.

The newly adopted rights plan, Illumina said, "is designed to deter coercive or otherwise unfair takeover tactics".