Sentence examples for try and deter from inspiring English sources

"The government may also have brought her to the Bay Area just to try and deter Graham from taking the stand".

You have got to try and deter people making this desperately dangerous journey obviously for a better life for themselves and their families but putting their lives at risk in the process".

"We need to get officers in the right place at the right time, to try and deter burglaries taking place, which means officers patrolling the area, visiting houses and providing security products to particular houses," said Murray.

The attacks in southern Iraq were so bad in July that the United States military took the unusual step of bombing open swaths of desert with a C-130 gunship and an Apache helicopter in the middle of the night to try and deter the militias.

"You ask for five shots in your espresso and they sell it to you?" I asked, incredulously, as if a barista would try and deter such extreme consumption.

He travels through wild, snowy country swarming with wolves, as the locals cross themselves and try to deter him.

But it allowed Washington and Seoul to take some action after months of struggling for ways to punish the North -- and try to deter it from further violence -- without provoking the country's erratic leader, Kim Jong-il, to launch new attacks.

But we still need to get out there and try to deter crime taking place in the first place.

Obama has requested $3.7 billion in funding so agencies can effectively care for the unaccompanied minors at the border, quickly get through their removal cases and try to deter more from coming.

Figure out a policy in advance to deal with this kind of negative attention if you're using your own webspace for activism, and try to deter hacking with some safeguards.

The spokesman played down suggestions Britain might try to deter Bulgarian and Romanian arrivals by launching an advertising campaign in those countries stressing the negative aspects of life in the UK, including the weather.