Sentence examples for main deterrence from inspiring English sources

The FTC's main deterrence tool is consent decrees, with which it can fine companies only after they have been caught violating rules.

The problem, as he saw it, was that capital punishment no longer served its main purpose — deterrence — because it wasn't used enough.

Thirty years ago, says Mr Radelet, Americans supported the death penalty for three main reasons: deterrence, religious conviction (an eye for an eye) and taxes (the idea of spending public money to feed and clothe murderers for the rest of their lives seemed outrageous).

David Uhlmann, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, argues that allowing companies involved in lethal activities to settle their claims with prosecutors, instead of having the harm they have done made evident through an unequivocal criminal conviction, amounts to a moral and practical failure.If the main aim is deterrence, companies may be the wrong targets for prosecution.

But the S.E.C.'s main concern should be deterrence, not compensation.

"The plastic people say the main benefit is the counterfeiting deterrence.

The main goal of censorship is deterrence: you know that your story will be blacked out, so why bother writing it.

The review argues that nuclear deterrence is the main defense against major nuclear powers like Russia and China, which both own large and sophisticated arsenals.

Others have argued that the main benefit of the policy is deterrence.

Last century's Cold War was based on three necessary conditions: Mutual nuclear deterrence and ideological conflicts were the main contradictions, while proxy war was the main means of competition.

There are all manner of punishments and innovations that might be introduced if deterrence were the only or main determinant of its social acceptability: chopping off limbs, stoning people and corporal punishment might be usefully retried.