Sentence examples for be sufficient to deter from inspiring English sources

And although it is not certain, airstrikes should be sufficient to deter the Assad regime from using chemical weapons again.

They may be sufficient to deter Scots from voting to leave this time though the latest polls suggest the contest is getting awfully tight.

Although Feuerbach protested against vindictive punishment, he promulgated a "psychological-coercive," or intimidation, theory of penal law; in his view, punishment should be sufficient to deter potential lawbreakers.

Even though the United States has more than 6,000 nuclear warheads, the proponents of a national missile defense insist that might not be sufficient to deter an attack.

Officials are hopeful that the threat of force will be sufficient to deter Mr. Milosevic from continuing his military operations in Kosovo, where about 250 people have been killed, about 10,000 have become refugees and 60,000 or more have been displaced from their homes.

As long as enemies were not crazy or accident prone, the thinking went, a secure retaliatory force should be sufficient to deter nuclear attack.

Others assert that the threat of retaliation by the United States is sufficient to deter attacks.

The Justice Department takes the view that deferred prosecutions are sufficient to deter bribery.

No number of gun-related fatalities or serious injuries is sufficient to deter the N.R.A. from its fanatical course.

However, this policy was never used in practise - the mere existence of nuclear weapons was sufficient to deter aggression.

Instead, Colonel Hough and the State have maintained that the mere threat of such arrests is sufficient to deter drunk driving and so to reduce the accident rate.