Sentence examples for inadequate deterrent from inspiring English sources

However, environmental activists immediately criticised the measures as an inadequate deterrent for the largely affluent urban buyers of large vehicles.

Nine countries were considered to have "moderate enforcement" — still an inadequate deterrent — including France, Spain, Japan, Sweden and the Netherlands.

To beat him, Price, eight inches taller and with a decided reach advantage, will try to put his jab in the Russian's face until that proves an inadequate deterrent.

They say fines - usually about £150 per breach - are an "inadequate" deterrent when the financial rewards for wrongdoing can be considerable.

Moreover, the lenient penalties meted out to the defendants were inadequate deterrents.

And, despite the obvious safety and environmental concerns, legal restrictions have been inadequate-and hardly deterrent.

It's this building bottleneck that concerns the 20percentt of U.S. companies who have expressed interest in shifting their business from China, but cite Indonesia's "inadequate infrastructure" as a deterrent.

Cameroon must attract more investment to improve its inadequate infrastructure, but its business environment is a deterrent to foreign investment.

Surgeons identified inadequate infrastructure and lack of time as significant deterrents in trial participation (Schroen and Brenin, 2008).

By the middle of the 19th century there was a growing realisation that the purpose of the workhouse was no longer solely or even chiefly to act as a deterrent to the able-bodied poor, and the first generation of buildings was widely considered to be inadequate.

The final major deterrent to aspiring female MPs is the hopelessly inadequate policies for women suffering sexual harassment in Westminster and the way female politicians are so often appraised by the media in a sloppily sexist way.