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From a sports perspective, the strangest part of this worldwide tragedy has been the crippling social deterrence.
THIS ODD SUPER BOWL WILL BRING US TOGETHER FOR A DAY. LET’S NOT TAKE THAT FOR GRANTED.JERRY BREWERFEBRUARY 5, 2021WASHINGTON POST
In the short run, deterrence is democracy’s most powerful weapon.
THE CASE FOR CONSEQUENCESZACK BEAUCHAMPJANUARY 12, 2021VOX
Nature has provided as far as possible for deterrence from over-interest.
PSYCHOTHERAPYJAMES J. WALSH
For five decades, we have been successful in applying containment and deterrence in the Cold War.
SHOCK AND AWEHARLAN K. ULLMAN
When deterrence or diplomacy failed as in Kuwait, then the use of force was inevitable.
SHOCK AND AWEHARLAN K. ULLMAN
Let us assume the legitimate end of all punishment to be deterrence.
SOCIAL RIGHTS AND DUTIESLESLIE STEPHEN
It follows that we must understand "deterrence" in a wider sense than we have hitherto given to it.
SOCIAL RIGHTS AND DUTIESLESLIE STEPHEN
We have developed a realistic military strategy to deter threats to peace and to protect freedom if deterrence fails.
Strategic defenses that threaten no one could offer the world a safer, more stable basis for deterrence.
What the deterrence in a comparatively short prison term that leaves the prisoner with a firm grip on his bundle of loot?
CRIMINAL TYPESV. M. MASTEN
WORDS RELATED TO DETERRENCE
- aegis
- armor
- arms
- barricade
- bastille
- bastion
- bulwark
- buttress
- citadel
- cover
- deterrence
- dike
- embankment
- fastness
- fence
- fort
- fortification
- fortress
- garrison
- guard
- immunity
- munitions
- palisade
- parapet
- position
- protection
- rampart
- redoubt
- resistance
- safeguard
- security
- shelter
- shield
- stockade
- stronghold
- trench
- wall
- ward
- warfare
- weaponry
- weapons
- abridgment
- arrest
- ban
- bar
- barrier
- bondage
- bridle
- captivity
- chains
- check
- command
- confinement
- constraint
- cramp
- curb
- decrease
- deprivation
- detention
- determent
- deterrence
- embargo
- fetters
- hindrance
- impediment
- imprisonment
- instruction
- interdict
- limit
- obstacle
- obstruction
- order
- pinions
- prohibition
- reduction
- rein
- repression
- restriction
- rope
- stop
- stoppage
- straitjacket
- string
- taboo
- weight
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