Sentence examples for deterrence were from inspiring English sources
There are all manner of punishments and innovations that might be introduced if deterrence were the only or main determinant of its social acceptability: chopping off limbs, stoning people and corporal punishment might be usefully retried.
Although NATO was not obliged to defend Ukraine, members did impose a range of economic sanctions on Russia, and issues of European deterrence were raised for the first time since 1990.
President Bush told nearly 1,000 graduates at the United States Military Academy here today that the cold war doctrines of containment and deterrence were irrelevant in a world where the only strategy for defeating America's new enemies was to strike them first.
It was only really Hitler and then the Cold War that caused Moscow's rulers to behave sensibly, and one of the Soviet scientists was eavesdropped by the KGB as saying that the first lives to be saved by nuclear deterrence were those of the Soviet scientists.
Nuclear deterrence was propaganda.
Others say deterrence is immoral.
Nuclear deterrence is not a universal truth.
If Russia believes that, deterrence is working.
The government says this shows the deterrence is working.
Compellence and deterrence are both forms of coercion.
