Sentence examples for means of deterring from inspiring English sources
It metes out punishment as a means of deterring others from committing similar crimes.
The result, the audit says, is "not an effective means of deterring fraud and abuse".
Eventually federal courts pointed out that Ice can't detain people as a means of deterring others.
Yet there is no reason to think that hangings are an effective means of deterring others from similar acts.
The provisions have been pushed by abortion opponents as a means of deterring women from having the procedures.
It also wants broader use of roadblocks, in which police stop random cars and test certain drivers for alcohol, another proven means of deterring drunken driving.
Forms requir ing school teachers to register the size of their groups when they enter have not been com pleted, and means of deter mining the ages of high‐school youths have not been decided on.
The addition of face and photo identification to the interlock system does provide a means of detecting and deterring the swapping of cars with a spouse or family member who does not drink.
Jackson curiously denies this, contending that: "the fact that South Korea is capable of self-defense does not mean it is capable of deterring North Korea on its own". Perhaps with Seoul's current capabilities, but there is no special gravitational field that prevents the country in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula from fielding a larger force.
They concluded that the filing of the federal suit was a "defensive tactical maneuver" based on a contrived federal claim; hence, a stay was called for as "a means to deter vexatious use of the federal courts". The courts also noted that, in the interim, the basis for the plaintiff's assertion of exclusive federal jurisdiction had vanished.
In language similar to the prewar resolution on Iraq, a recent House resolution authorized the use of "all appropriate means" to deter, dissuade and prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weaponry — terminology often used to approve preemptive military force.
