Sentence examples for it failed to deter from inspiring English sources

The strike a year ago made good on Trump's vow not to let the use of chemical weapons go unpunished, but it failed to deter Assad from using them again.

Written with the help of Henry Schwarzschild, a former director of the group's Capital Punishment Project, the publication brought together a number of arguments against the death penalty: that it failed to deter crime (using supporting data); that it was fraught with racial bias, wrongful convictions and excessive financial costs; and that it was ultimately an act of "barbarity".

Although the wall of segregation in sports seemed insurmountable, it failed to deter Bob Douglas, a West Indian who moved to New York in 1901 at age 19, taking with him an entrepreneurial spirit that seemed to be more common among black Caribbean immigrants than it was among those African Americans who had gone north as part of the Great Migration.

It fails to deter criminals, and makes those states that take part in it look backward and barbaric.

In its report, the International Crisis Group argues, however, that while the drone policy has yielded short-term successes, it fails to deter militant groups in the long-term.

Until late last night, Lehman was locked in talks with potential buyers after the last-ditch restructuring plan it announced last week failed to deter investors and trading partners from fleeing.

A former ally, the Duke of Buckingham, led a short-lived rebellion in 1483 but its destruction failed to deter another challenger.

Given the US's pivot has failed to deter China, it is for the good of the Asia Pacific that new inter-regional approaches like this are sought.

A three-year inquiry by the office of the United States attorney in Brooklyn, prompted by the 1997 station house torture of Abner Louima, found that the department was so lenient with officers in excessive force cases that it had bred a climate that failed to deter brutal acts.

That resolution, like its two predecessors, has failed to deter Tehran, which will soon be in a position to create a working nuclear weapon.

Having failed to deter the voters, it was the Clinton administration that first decided to go after the doctors.