Sentence examples for deter war from inspiring English sources

It is an act to deter war, to make the last option the use of force.

Is the voluntary association of democracies called NATO, organized to deter war more than to wage it, capable of sustaining a twenty or thirty years' war?

The Department's mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of the United States.

Military preparedness was at a peak, but armaments are responses to tensions, not the cause of them, and they had, perhaps, served to deter war in the numerous crises preceding 1914.

So War Against War! – republished in facsimile this year in the UK by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation – poses a relevant question: why is it that showing people gruesome photographs of war injuries does not deter war?

It is an act to deter war, to put in place the tools for our president, our secretary of state, to get the strongest possible resolution in the United Nations.

He emphasized that Army officers today have the responsibility to deter wars as well as to fight and win them.

"North Korea tries to weaken the South Korea-U.S. alliance's capability of deterring war".

"Our Ulchi exercises are for peace and for deterring war," he was quoted as saying while presiding over a cabinet meeting in an underground bunker at the presidential Blue House.

"One is the challenge of maintaining a common front" with South Korea and Japan, he said, "given that people list the priorities in the different order: deterring war on the peninsula, preventing nuclear transfer to terrorists and preventing missile development".

"Despite unprecedented persistent economic blockade, military threat and political obstruction, we have firmly safeguarded national dignity, effectively deterred war and put the stagnant economy onto an upward track," Ri told the UN forum.