Many also questioned whether any NFL team would draft an openly gay player, perhaps deterred by ingrained social attitudes or unwillingness to deal with the inevitable media attention.
M'Vila's talent has never been doubted, it is the 22-year-old's attitude that has perhaps deterred Europe's big clubs away from his powerful midfield presence.
And plenty of foreigners already in Beijing seem to have decided to stay at home and watch the Olympics on television, perhaps deterred by security measures on public transport and traffic snarls around Olympic venues.
Perhaps deterred by the process of finding it, a shamefully scarce crowd stood before DJ demigod Sasha at Resistance.
While I was mulling over the whys and hows of the epidemic, my mind automatically went to the role that nutrition can play in helping to stem the spread, and mortality rates, of diseases and perhaps deter future outbreaks.
Perhaps deterred by the traffic on the roads and the shops, locals known as "stalkers" regularly sneak into the more abandoned areas just outside of town to scavenge, hike, and swim in what appears to be a lush and teeming nature reserve in the heart of the zone.
But we also think we will ultimately be safer if we can introduce the idea that the United States is willing to enter into arms treaties with Russia to reduce our respective nuclear arsenals, and that we're gonna stand against nonproliferation in a way that will perhaps deter others from acquiring nuclear weapons.
And aside from JS-Kit, most of these services are free, leaving them vulnerable to drops in advertising revenue and perhaps also deterring major companies from entrusting their data with them for fear that they might go belly up.
Water gushes down windows, perhaps to deter the inevitable paparazzi, but I fear for the effect on older customers' bladders.
