Sentence examples for deterring conflict from inspiring English sources

"Even U.S. Pacific forces contribute to NATO's security by deterring conflict and ensuring free flow of trade," said Katherine Blakely, a research fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

He is in office at least partly to deter conflict among the tribes.

"Those exercises are mostly to assure our allies that they can count on us to be prepared and to help them deter conflict".

As Japan turned to outright invasion after years of encroachment in northern China, he privately begged Britain to protest, hoping that a strong western line would deter conflict.

It also seeks to deter conflict rather than win war, and to suffer as few casualties as possible if deterrence fails.

If one accepts that quasi-wars are actually war, then the Defense Department has done little to deter conflict.

Conversely, a United States that is strong, that is firm in its alliance commitments is much more likely to deter conflict.

Reagan, often given credit for a macho reputation that deterred conflict, really began the ramp up back to useless and costly overseas American meddling--by militarily provoking Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, invading the tiny country of Grenada for no good reason, and getting almost 250 Marines killed in Lebanon in support of Israel's invasion of that country.

"We follow governmentwide regulations and laws that deter conflicts and ensure impartiality," John Nester, the agency's spokesman, said in an e-mail.

Advocates for fiscal transparency say such data is important for the public to know, and not just because it helps deter conflicts of interest.

The military's post-cold-war challenge is to deter conflicts rather than win wars, but the Bush administration's plan to increase Pentagon spending dramatically instead of applying that money toward programs that fight poverty and its symptoms will only undermine those goals.