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demeanour seems designed to deter the kind of people who think that genius should be high status.

In the post-Cold War world, does it make sense to have nuclear capacities that were designed to deter the Soviet Union?

A Park Service capable of selling books that present a creationist view of the Grand Canyon is unlikely to look favorably on a structure designed to deter the prospect of an apocalyptic End of Days.

Just as the Renaissance-era chastity belt and the recent invention of anti-rape knickers have attempted to make women harder to disrobe, so the cloak is designed to deter the uncontrollable urges of men.

The chancellor has ordered a Treasury team led by Graham Aaronson QC to work up proposals for a general anti-avoidance rule designed to deter the most artificial tax schemes.

At the time, I and other economists warned that the policy could almost have been designed to deter the migrants the UK most needs; and, for those who do come, to expel many of those we would most like to remain.

What is needed is a set of rules designed to deter and discourage the frequent - as opposed to the occasional - use of payday loans.

This same weekend last year, the M2 and M20 became gigantic lorry parks as a result of strikes and additional security measures designed to deter migrants on the French side.

Austrian diplomatic sources have accused the UK of supporting the scheme designed to deter too many cases coming before the court but British sources have insisted the proposal was made by another country and emerged during negotiations.

Two decades ago, the facades of all of them were either falling off or pockmarked with the holes of millions of bullets sprayed on them by the invading Red Army (the tactic was designed to deter snipers) as they took the city in May 1945.

He said the strikes on rebel positions were a "pre-emptive action designed to deter further provocations of the type we witnessed today".