Sentence examples for deterrent enough from inspiring English sources

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HMRC's cat-and-mouse game with tax lawyers will never suffice, and shame isn't deterrent enough – some people are beyond it.

Some defenders of PEP say that's not true, pointing out that taking a month-long course of medication with potentially strong side-effects is deterrent enough.

The drive, it's true, was deterrent enough: up a track, and then another track, and then down again and then up another track, which seemed, in the dark, to be barely wider than the car.

These had clearly been deterrent enough: this crowd was never going to threaten a repeat offence and the heavily-armed officers were able to spend most of a humid early evening watching from the stands.

In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, the spokesman said genuine dialogue would be possible only when North Korea "has acquired nuclear deterrent enough to defuse the U.S. threat of nuclear war unless the U.S. rolls back its hostile policy and nuclear threat and blackmail".

The doves retort that NATO's Article 5, which says that an attack on one member is an attack on the whole alliance, is deterrent enough; new members who question its worth are hurting their own cause.Yet easterners are raising their voices in talks about NATO's new "strategic concept", a document to define its purpose that will be adopted next year.

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Members of the council's Housing and Buildings Committee said existing penalties were not a strong enough deterrent.

He added: "In the past maybe there wasn't a strong enough deterrent for carrying knives.

"Losing a racing license is not a big enough deterrent," said Edward J. Martin, president of the Association of Racing Commissioners International, a trade group.

But this deterrent is not enough to stop Israelis from seeing a nuclear Iran as the precursor to a second holocaust.

The fine for violating the one-blower rule is a significant enough deterrent that he uses machines that catch grass clippings, reducing the need for blowers.

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