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Recent Examples of deterrence
Academic research, including out of the University of California, Berkeley, has shown limited deterrence effects of mandatory minimum sentences.
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Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 16 Jan. 2025
The State Department said the deportations send a message of deterrence.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025
The military prefers to cycle forces in and out of the places where deterrence is most crucial, which requires maintaining several soldiers at home for each one overseas.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The Hustle Vail helped start a wolf license plate program that’s so far earned over $600k for Colorado Parks & Wildlife to spend on wolf deterrence for ranchers.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 31 Jan. 2025
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Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 16 Jan. 2025
The State Department said the deportations send a message of deterrence.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025
The military prefers to cycle forces in and out of the places where deterrence is most crucial, which requires maintaining several soldiers at home for each one overseas.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The Hustle Vail helped start a wolf license plate program that’s so far earned over $600k for Colorado Parks & Wildlife to spend on wolf deterrence for ranchers.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deterrence
Noun
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Without immediate results, frustration and discouragement creep up, prompting people to quit.—
Jane Hanson,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Super Group believed its global Betway brand and marketing deals with 10 NBA and NHL franchises and on Ted Lasso would draw in Americans, but found high taxes a discouragement in some markets and marketing spending too fierce in others.—
Brendan Coffey,
Sportico.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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In the Fort Worth Independent School District and across Texas, conversations about literacy instruction have largely focused on the early grades.—
Silas Allen,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Feb. 2025
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The instructions said the test would take 20 minutes and require a pack of lancets.—
Olga Khazan,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2025
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
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Goal suppression is robbing the captain of offence, and the Oilers need to address it.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
19 Feb. 2025
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Even though the film is set in the period of the 40’s and 50’s and is about a celebrated Hungarian architect coming to America for a new life and new opportunities after repression in his own country, Brody is proud that the Brady Corbet film has relevance for what is happening now.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2025
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Previous reports from the United Nations had warned that those actions were systematically implemented by Maduro’s repression apparatus.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
2 Feb. 2025
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The dictations began to coalesce into essays that combined tales of his former, able-bodied life with unvarnished assessments of his medical and mental conditions.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2025
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People across Ukraine sit and listen to a dictation of a famous work by a Ukrainian author.—
Michael Robinson Chávez,
NPR,
6 Jan. 2025
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Classes at the campus will be offered in English, with the main three-year courses offered for areas such as fashion design, fashion management, fashion product, fashion styling and creative direction, in addition to special programs dedicated to interior design and fragrances and cosmetics.—
Sandra Salibian,
WWD,
19 Feb. 2025
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There are some adjustments that come to the story in the finale that will affect the direction of season two.—
Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Deterrence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deterrence. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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