Sentence examples for deter evil from inspiring English sources
A respected holy man, Jalal Uddin, 71, was stalked and murdered because he was a practitioner of a form of Islamic faith healing called taweez which involved the use of charms to bring good luck, good health and deter evil spirits.
Iran's supreme leader, who makes the final decision on all state matters in Iran, said earlier this month that Tehran only agreed to the deal in Geneva to "deter the evil" of the US.
"We had announced previously that on certain issues, if we feel it is expedient, we would negotiate with the Satan [the US] to deter its evil," he told a crowd of clerics and his followers from Qom, which devout Shia Muslims consider a holy city.
I always assure people that the "fur" trim on my favorite winter hat is fake so as to deter the evil eye.
Frum and Perle wish to revolutionize whole cultures, change regimes, deter potential threats, "end evil" itself.
Neither side was about to let the employment gains deter them from their planned messages about the evils of sequestration, in the case of Democrats, and regulation, in the case of Republicans.
If the past four decades are any indication, nothing short of regime change will deter the mullahs ruling Iran from their nuclear ambitions or other evil intentions meant to preserve their power.
The wager is not that Faust will shun evil but that his association with the Devil will not deter him from ultimately striving for God as the central monad (see above for a discussion of Leibnitz's Monadology).
Is it an evil regime bent on keeping its dictatorial grip on a starving people and building nuclear bombs to deter meddling from the outside?
After seeing what has happened in Iraq, and listening to the "axis of evil" rhetoric, any patriotic Iranian military leader must be advising his government that only a bomb will deter the United States.
