Sentence examples for deter attack from inspiring English sources

All surprise attacks are now called pre-emptive strikes; the former sounds sneaky and dastardly, the latter cunning and upright, because pre-emptive is an explanation of motive: the attacker is attacking only to deter attack.

It would want a first bomb to test (proving its nuclear capacity) and three or four more to deter attack.

If it is prepared to use such "human shields" to deter attack, could it not use human sacrifices to gain a public-relations victory?

The things that worked best -- a sufficient arsenal to deter attack, the diplomacy of containment, the painstaking business of arms control -- were imperfect and complicated.

In the end, a military strategy devised to deter attack by the Soviet Union will have outlived its original enemy by at least half a century.

All three had been held at strategic sites as "human shields" to deter attack by United States-led multinational forces stationed in the gulf.

Sometimes they deter attacks.

Nuclear weapons can create stability because they deter attacks.

It might want to deter attacks by a state with nuclear weapons.

Threats intended to deter attacks only seem to raise the war-fever further.

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