Sentence examples for deter aggression from inspiring English sources

What's interesting about the pattern is not our ability to deter aggression.

At the same time, we can build our air forces to deter aggression in Asia and elsewhere.

The idea behind "market deterrence" is that financial markets will punish countries for military adventurism, and this can deter aggression.

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

Second, our existing arsenal of deployed strategic weapons is more than adequate to deter aggression against us and our allies.

"We need a force that can both deter aggression and meet the many challenges that might come our way," he said.

This was supposed to provide a more effective system for filing complaints and a heavier police presence to deter aggressions.

However imperfect in practice, deterring aggression and crimes against humanity must remain the primary goal.

Sagan recalls, "He understood that Richard Nixon believed in the so-called 'madman theory' " — deterring aggression by encouraging America's rivals to suspect that Nixon was irrational.

In championing the oppressed, deterring aggression, curbing the excesses of despots, challenging the victimisation of scapegoats, tackling poverty or preventing genocide, the international community still has a long way to go.

Trump is critiquing not "globalism" but the Atlantic Alliance that prevailed in the Cold War and a Pacific strategy that has deterred aggression and increased mutual prosperity through trade for more than half a century.