Deterring Sentence Examples

Did you know coffee grinds are great for deterring slugs?

The final meeting on 6 June 2003 examined deterring plagiarism.

But speed also adds to a feeling of more general road danger, deterring many from cycling and walking and causing severance within communities.

Third Worldan deterring warfare with another nuclear power, however, they suggest these weapons could be used in conventional conflicts with third-world nations.

Rather than deterring warfare with another nuclear power, however, they suggest these weapons could be used in conventional conflicts with third-world nations.

Tip-off information has been on the increase and has proven to be very useful in deterring pirated optical disk manufacturers.

It will be more able to do this if it shows strong leadership on combating and deterring corruption in projects it supports.

Some students report that discussions seem to be at an inappropriate level, thereby deterring them from participating.

In other words for the planners, planning an American first strike was the only way of " deterring " a Soviet first strike.

Our CCTV initiative aims to improve public safety and confidence whilst actively deterring crime.

If you want a more psychologically positive approach to deterring cats, one way to go is to provide them with incentives to stay away.

At the very least, Sony probably isn't displeased about this virus that is putting their system in the news and deterring hacks all at the same time!

Early screening of at-risk children is critical to deterring development of a persistent pattern of antisocial behavior.

To share with the minister such general oversight is not regarded by intelligent and influential laymen as an incongruous or unworthy office; but to identify the duties of the eldership, even in theory, with those of the minister is a sure way of deterring from accepting office many whose counsel and influence in the eldership would be invaluable.'

Penal servitude, to use the words of the lord chief justice Sir Alexander Cockburn, one of the members of the committee, "was hardly calculated to produce on the mind of the criminal that salutary dread of the recurrence of the punishment which may be the means of deterring him and, through his example, others from the commission of crime."

In answer to this argument some necessarians have admitted that punishment can be legitimate only if it be beneficial to the person punished; others, again, have held that the lawful use of force is to restrain lawless force; but most of those who reject free-will defend punishment on the ground of its utility in deterring others from crime, as well as in correcting or restraining the criminal on whom it falls.

The wasps came by thousands to my lodge in October, as to winter quarters, and settled on my windows within and on the walls overhead, sometimes deterring visitors from entering.

For about three months following this event he was held as a prisoner on parole within the limits of Charleston; then, because of his influence in deterring others from exchanging their paroles for the privileges of British subjects, he was seized, taken to St Augustine, Florida, and there, because he would not give another parole to those who had violated the former agreement affecting him, he was confined for forty-two weeks in a dungeon.