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Example sentences for: deterrence

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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.
What remained was the hard question of how deterrence could be effective when the adversary was a loose transnational network.
Buchanan even uses the word "deterrence," though he doesn't use "Mutually Assured Destruction," "Bakelite," or "hula hoop."
USAT , the NYT and the WP (in its inside story on Kosovo) mention another element of NATO deterrence: the decision to send an unspecified number of troops--possibly including U.S. soldiers--to Macedonia.
The SEC tries to create deterrence and be measured in imposing sanctions.