Sentence examples for we could deter from inspiring English sources
The next idea is that we could deter potential Chinese aggression by lending extra military weight.
"You know," one senior intelligence official who would not speak on the record because he monitors the Pakistani arsenal said, "we used to have this great distinction between 'states with nukes' that we could deter the old-fashioned way, and 'groups with nukes' that we couldn't deter".
To try and keep the questionnaire as short as was possible, we opted to use the shortened version of the team climate inventory rather than the long version, and we presented this before the other two sections, which required more detailed and considered responses that we anticipated could deter potential responders if presented first.
"We disagree with the magnitude of the cuts, which we think are excessive and could deter investment in networks and equipment, which would go against the government's plans for encouraging the use of mobile data," said Simon Gordon, a spokesman for Vodafone, which is based in Newbury, England.
A Cabinet Office source said: "What we didn't want was something that could deter MPs from making difficult decisions and leave them open to frequent and vexatious petitions".
The violence could deter parents.
But nothing could deter Sherry.
It could deter witnesses, it could encourage them to grandstand".
That, he said, "conceivably could deter foreign investment in Nigeria".
