Sentence examples for deter attempts from inspiring English sources

(He even booked a Caribbean cruise to deter attempts to co-opt him).

But building designers are taking measures as simple as locating air intakes near the top of structures, to deter attempts to introduce poisonous gas or biological agents.

The report, Rash or Rational?, said that denuclearisation was unlikely but suggested that Mr Kim was using his weapons primarily as a means to deter attempts at regime change and that he was highly unlikely to ever use them.

"I've been telling people, 'If you think you have a good team that can go far, you better have this stuff ready now".' Not everyone believes the new guidelines go far enough or will deter attempts to assemble a team outside of Little League's eligibility rules.

The intractable social, political and economic complexity of the problem and the influence of competing interests deter attempts at economic interpretation.

Full-body scanners, it concluded, can detect and thus deter "attempts to carry aboard airplanes explosives in liquid or powder form".

Certainly it is doubtful whether added manpower does much to deter terrorist attempts.

Moreover, they expressed concern that police oversight would deter independent attempts to monitor air quality.

And perhaps in a sign of desperation, the company said it had even begun putting safety nets up on factory buildings to deter suicide attempts.

The changes will not apply to completed deals but are intended to deter further attempts to use what Jack Lew, the Treasury secretary, called an "unfair loophole".

The agency did not directly mention the fence-jumper in March as a motivation, but they said the new restrictions may help deter similar attempts in the future.