Sentence examples for deter combatants from inspiring English sources

Scharf said the group is going public now to push the issue of accountability for war crimes into the ongoing international discussions over Syria, and in hopes the prospect will deter combatants from committing further atrocities such as the Aug. 21 use of chemical weapons.

"Qaddafi is trying to take advantage of this mixing of combatants and noncombatants to deter NATO from striking," said one Obama administration official who was briefed on the intelligence reports.

The second reason is that the administration's insistence that they are still "enemy combatants" (or are "no longer enemy combatants") has deterred other countries from accepting them.

Deliberately placing non-combatants in and around targets to deter enemy attack – the definition of human shields – is illegal under international law.

Sometimes they deter attacks.

What could deter him?

It did deter me.

Whom will it deter?

Does it deter terror?

Nothing could deter him.

That doesn't deter consumers.