Third, to deter threats and counter coercion.
This goes to the heart of the four different purposes of prison: first, to punish the person who committed the unlawful act; second, to educate the person and hopefully rehabilitate them back into society; third, to protect society from any further harm that the person might do if free; fourth, to deter others who might seek to emulate the deed.
They worked for a politically volatile Board of Education, and made forceful first impressions to deter criticism from its seven members or, worse, City Hall.
Here in Quetta, Pakistani soldiers patrolled the streets for a second day to deter rioting and revenge killings by Shiites.
No doubt it will be claimed that measures, taken at the eleventh hour to deter immigration, worked; despite reason dictating that most people plan such a life-altering move more than a month in advance, which was when the government started trying to out-Ukip Ukip.
Friday's strikes mark the U.S. military's second attempt to deter Syrian dictator Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons, following reports that his forces launched a chemical attack on the outskirts of Damascus last weekend.
"Our first goal is to deter the Iranians," said one senior administration official.
An unnamed senior administration official told the New York Times: "Our first goal is to deter the Iranians.
It is the first painkiller reformulated to deter abuse, according to the F.D.A., which is now studying several proposed reformulations of other opiate drugs.
I have four suggestions, all simple measures I call "heuristics"—practical and solid rules that come from experience that can decrease the fragility of the economic system, selected because they are both uncomplicated (except for academic economists) and highly effective.My first suggestion aims to deter the "too big to fail" effect and prevent bonus-earners from taking advantage of the public.
