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Example sentences for: deterrence

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As it turns out, there was a security guard at Columbine, but a single, lightly armed person is not sufficient deterrence.
The SEC tries to create deterrence and be measured in imposing sanctions.
The Israelis have always pursued it as a policy of deterrence as well as populist satisfaction.
China could never trump the warhead blizzard Washington would send in retaliation against any atomic attack, though the country would be loath to cede to U.S. missile defenses the deterrence afforded by its handfuls of warheads.
Defense, they argue, rests on deterrence, which rests on credibility in threatening the use of force, which rests on the use of force when challenged.