Sentence examples for deter attacks from inspiring English sources

"In French doctrine, nuclear weapons are meant to deter attacks against 'vital interests,' to create uncertainty among potential attackers about what these interests could be," said François Heisbourg, special adviser at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris.

Sometimes 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.

Others countered that the best way to deter attacks was to keep all military options open.

Jarry rode a fixed-gear bike around Paris, letting off pistols to deter attacking dogs as he went.

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

At a cost of tens of millions of dollars annually it maintains a system of about 26,000 bunkers and fortifications throughout the Swiss Alps meant to deter attacking armies.

The reduction of the American force, in place for decades to deter attack from North Korea, would be the first since 1992, when about 7,000 troops were withdrawn.

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