Sentence examples for deterrent role from inspiring English sources

The Americans have national interests in Europe and they play a deterrent role that is irreplaceable.

In any event, neither Britain nor France was eager to take over from the United States the broader deterrent role, nor were those who had previously sheltered under the U.S. umbrella interested in a European alternative.

In June 1969 the strategic deterrent role was transferred to the Royal Navy's Polaris submarine force, and in the 1990s these boats were replaced by Vanguard-class submarines carrying American Trident II ballistic missiles armed with British warheads.

By forcing the evacuation of the OSCE monitors, which -- despite their limitations -- were playing something of a deterrent role against the worst Serbian atrocities, NATO gave the Serbs the opportunity to increase their repression.

In 1964 1965, a series of detachments of Victor B.1As was deployed to RAF Tengah, Singapore as a deterrent against Indonesia during the Borneo conflict, the detachments fulfilling a strategic deterrent role as part of Far East Air Force, while also giving valuable training in low-level flight and visual bombing.

These veterans or ex-servicemen, acting as citizen wardens, can be a powerful deterrent and role models.

They also serve as crime deterrents, educators, and role models and it is possible that some participants intended for the increased police presence to serve in this way.

But Dr. Heymann said that the criticism overlooked the psychological advantage scanners offered by raising confidence among travelers and their role as deterrents in keeping sick passengers off planes.

These four aldehydes are ubiquitous communication agents within Hemiptera and their role as deterrents and defensive chemicals is strongly conserved in this order [18], [25] [27].

Britain must keep its Trident nuclear deterrent to maintain its "outsized" role in the world, the US defence secretary, Ash Carter, has said.

The tour ended with not a single bomb dropped, leaving some participants proud of their military role as a deterrent and others deflated, questioning the value of their considerable effort.