Sentence examples for harder to deter from inspiring English sources
But non-state actors are harder to deter.
For obvious reasons, it is harder to deter terrorists than it was to deter a Soviet attack.
In Asia, America will find it harder to deter China's assertiveness in the South China Sea, which is deliberately intended to display China's growing ability to defy U.S. power in the maritime domain, where it was once strongest.
"Obviously, hard-core terrorists will be the hardest to deter," Mr. Vickers said.
If a powerful shark is truly determined to kill, it will be very hard to deter.
The fusiliers were sent out in groups of four armed with one SA80 assault rifle and camouflage poles to capture Iraqis and bring them back to the camp with the intention of "working them hard" to deter looting.
While there he fell ill with lung cancer, a cruel fate for a man who had spent so much of his professional career treating the disease, who had never smoked and had worked hard to deter people from smoking.
Mr Limnell calls for a "triad" of capabilities: resilience under severe attack; reasonable assurance of attribution so that attackers cannot assume anonymity; and the means to hit back hard enough to deter an unprovoked attack.Few would argue against improving resilience, particularly of critical national infrastructure such as power grids, sewerage and transport systems.
Although no security mechanism is bullet-proof, this makes it just hard enough to deter casual criminals or crimes of opportunity — like the phone that gets left behind at a bar, maybe?
Mr. German said the change would make it harder to detect and deter inappropriate use of databases for personal purposes.
