Sentence examples for are to deter from inspiring English sources

The ones on doorways are to deter errant standing or sleeping.

"Members of the public, courts and police have to take air rage much more seriously if we are to deter potential offenders".

If arms really are to deter him, the West must be united and ready to match his inevitable escalation with still more powerful weapons (along, eventually, with personnel to operate them).

We have long viewed both incapacitation and deterrence as rationales for recidivism statutes: "A recidivist statute's... primary goals are to deter repeat offenders and, at some point in the life of one who repeatedly commits criminal offenses serious enough to be punished as felonies, to segregate that person from the rest of society for an extended period of time".

The primary legal justifications put forth for using criminal law to prosecute persons accused of potential HIV exposure are to deter certain behaviors and to impose retributive justice on those engaging in those behaviors [ 13, 7].

Their function is to deter, which is difficult to measure.

Wouldn't its only purpose be to deter?

For obvious reasons, it is harder to deter terrorists than it was to deter a Soviet attack.

The point is to deter terrorists, but there's another message, too.

Their main aim is to deter a formal declaration of independence.

The latest tack, though, is to deter lawsuits and royalty demands by acquiring patent portfolios.