Sentence examples for deter threats from inspiring English sources
Third, to deter threats and counter coercion.
They may conclude, he said, that nuclear weapons provide the best way to keep up with their neighbors and deter threats from more powerful nations.
For Pyongyang, nuclear weapons are considered the only way to deter threats to the regime — and guarantee the country's future existence.
The United Nations emphasized that while it was coordinating with the French and Malian forces in a complementary effort, the role of its peacekeepers in Mali, which currently number about 6,000 uniformed soldiers and police officers, was to deter threats to civilians.
"We are now just months away from an arbitrary, across-the-board budget reduction that would weaken the military with a trillion dollars in cuts, severely shrink our force structure, and impair our ability to meet and deter threats," Romney said.
"The guidelines that we have worked on that have been announced today will enhance Japan's security, deter threats and contribute to regional peace and stability", Mr Kerry said.
But gun rights advocates call that logic spurious and counter that by deterring threats, lawful gun ownership makes a household safer.
Oddly, the high level of US security has stopped neither the QDR nor Perry-Hadley from arguing that we simply must expand the military to be the cutting edge of US global engagement, deterring threats, fixing fragile states, fighting insurgents, countering terrorists, building states, restoring economies and all of this on a global basis.
Russia has deployed 70,000 security personnel and rocket batteries in a "ring of steel" to deter terror threats against an event that is widely seen as a political showcase for Putin.
In reality, Russia has plenty of other nuclear weapons to deter these threats.
