Sentence examples for wanted to deter from inspiring English sources

He said he wanted to deter others from committing such acts.

China was unnerved too by the approach of Taiwan's first direct presidential elections in 1996, and wanted to deter voters from supporting Mr Lee or other China-sceptical candidates.

In signing the bill, Museveni claimed he wanted to deter western groups from promoting homosexuality in Uganda.Some western countries have since withheld or cut aid to the country in protest, urging legislators to repeal the law.

Fidno wants to tell Malik his story so the world can know the truth about piracy — which began, he explains, with helpless Somali fishermen who wanted to deter "foreigner sea bandits" from illegally overfishing their coastline and littering it with toxic waste.

They all saw the dangers of ethnocentric nationalism from their German past and all, as Zionists, wanted to deter any Jewish state from repeating those errors.

But, dissatisfied with their programmed visual effects, the game's director Tomonobu Itagaki wanted to deter players from using ninpo.

"Australia wants to deter refugees," he said.

They want to deter the wealthy clubs from spending.

It wants to deter Iran, not fight it.

It might want to deter attacks by a state with nuclear weapons.

These matters are extremely sensitive, and we do not want to deter survivors from reporting them.