Sentence examples for discourage attacks from inspiring English sources

Western powers, including the United States, have sent warships to cruise Somalia's coast and discourage attacks.

Another strategy is to try to discourage attacks by exposing them.

As spring came, they loaded their goods into small boats and moved them down the Dnieper in convoy to discourage attacks by nomadic steppe tribes.

To discourage attacks in cyberspace, the nation must take additional steps to increase security and must be prepared if deterrents fail, Ms. Rice said.

For its part, Israel pursued its new tactic today of singling out close-knit Palestinian families in an attempt to discourage attacks.

By sending tribute to China, he acquired a powerful ally to discourage attacks from neighbouring Southeast Asian kingdoms and ensured that China would not interfere in Khmer domestic affairs.

You say "the Pentagon can safely eliminate thousands of nuclear weapons... but must maintain enough to discourage attack".

The Pentagon can safely eliminate thousands of nuclear weapons left over from the cold war, but must maintain enough to discourage attack.

As oil companies struggle to figure out where they need to beef up security, analysts say industry leaders will be watching for indications about why the Algerian camp was overrun after years when it and other Algerian facilities were considered well enough protected to discourage attack by militants in the region.

Israeli Army officials said the killing of Mr. Obaiyat could serve a long-term goal of discouraging attacks on their soldiers and on civilians, even if there is a short-term intensification of the conflict.

The advantage to the sponge is that it is carried by the mollusk; the hermit crab gains protection not only by living in the shell of the mollusk but also through the disagreeable smell and taste of the sponge, which discourages attack by fishes and other enemies.