Sentence examples for could not deter from inspiring English sources

Leeches had been applied but could not deter his decline.

But they could not deter both the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats from including the tax in their election manifestos.

But the South Korean government has continued to argue that its own forces could not deter an invasion from North Korea.

The latest attack, in which even trained security personnel aboard could not deter the pirates, demonstrated the urgent need for coordinated action by governments from Cairo to Berlin.

He knew that without outside help his troops could not deter the machete-wielding, largely Hutu militiamen who appeared bent on exterminating moderate Hutu and ethnic Tutsi citizens.

Warnings and brushback pitches could not deter Tejera, but Alomar finally did, homering to left for his second hit in three at-bats against him.

After all, if Britain couldn't deter an attack on its own far-flung islands, how could deterrence prevent attacks on other countries?

Of course concerned, law-abiding parents would have installed safety guards, but those barriers couldn't deter Peter Pan any more than they stop the local mosquitoes.

I moved into a brownstone on the Upper West Side, a short walk from Central Park and a gym so clean and well equipped the winter winds couldn't deter me from the treadmill.

Essentially, millions of pounds and thousands of manpower hours were frittered away to create a team who couldn't deter a man who was in a wheelchair one month ago.

"You know," one senior intelligence official who would not speak on the record because he monitors the Pakistani arsenal said, "we used to have this great distinction between 'states with nukes' that we could deter the old-fashioned way, and 'groups with nukes' that we couldn't deter".