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How to use the word deter in a Sentence?

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Social media provides a lifeline for many young people, in addition to community, education, and conversation, they use it in part because it can be private … The law, which would limit social media access and require parental consent and monitoring for minors, will incalculably harm the ability of young people to protect their privacy and deter them from exercising their rights.

– Jason Kelley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What is the likely intent of the authorities in levying such a serious and severe charge? It seems to be pretty clear that what they’re trying to do is to deter additional destruction of property and perhaps injury to persons.

– Ronald Carlson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If our whole strategy right now, especially in the Pacific, is deterrence, we want to deter conflict – a key part of deterrence is that you have the weapon systems and you have enough of them pre-positioned in key locations so that any actor who is considering the aggressive use of force knows that we mean business and we have those systems in place to use and we’ve got enough of them to use in a protracted conflict, that’s not where we’re at right now.

– Seth Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On one hand, I think it’s very important to drive a sense of urgency. I applaud him for that. He’s an aggressive commander, on the other hand, I would not paint it as inevitable that we will be in war, and I hope we will do everything we can to deter a conflict.

– Mark Esper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

> WASHINGTON, Jan 5( Reuters) - The United States will expand Trump-era restrictions to rapidly expel Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden said on Thursday in President Joe Biden first major speech on border security.At the same time, The United States will allow up to 30,000 people from those three countries plus Venezuela to enter the country by air each month, President Joe Biden said.The two-pronged approach is designed to blunt criticism from Republicans who have attacked President Joe Biden as record numbers of migrants cross the U.S.-Mexico border while also placating Democrats and immigration advocates who say Title 42 restrictions adopted under former President Donald Trump block migrants from exercising their right to apply for asylum.This new process is orderly, its safe and its humane, President Joe Biden said in a speech at the White House. He said his message to those would-be migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua or Haiti without a U.S. sponsor is : Do not just show up at the border.In November, U.S. border officials encountered 82,000 migrants from those countries and Venezuela who were attempting to enter without permission at the border with Mexico, according to U.S. government data.The plan is part of a broader effort to deter record numbers of border crossers and address the political and humanitarian challenge of mass migration that has dogged the Democratic president since he took office in 2021, as well as his predecessors from both parties.These actions alone are not going to fix our entire immigration system.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

I am not a criminal, this [controversy] will not deter me from having good legislative success. I will be effective. I will be good.

– George Santos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're going to continue to employ the strategy that we've been employing, which is aggressive prosecutions and prevention, we are very focused on making sure that we deter crimes at the border, including the scourge of fentanyl trafficking that's killing our residents, as well as preventing deaths in our community by getting into the community through an abundance of outreach programs in partnership with our law enforcement agency partners.

– Randy Grossman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They’re trying to destroy Herschel to deter young men and women of color from being Republicans. If they destroy Herschel, it will deter people of color from wanting to be conservative Republicans because you just have your life ruined.

– South Carolina

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Discipline alone -- so just the number of games one gets suspended -- is not enough to curb behavior or deter future action.

– Anna Isaacson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The strong dollar may deter some foreigners from buying here in the Lawrence Yun, but many are purchasing in all cash, so the swings in the dollar isn't a deal breaker. They will begin to step up in the next year.

– Lawrence Yun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Chinese tried to to use saber rattling and use the rhetorical war in order to deter Pelosi's trip, and they went overboard with their threats, now Pelosi decided to have the trip and that leaves the Chinese hanging, because they can't really deliver.

– Yun Sun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Delayed deliveries of Congressionally-approved sales to Taiwan are undermining Republican House lawmakers ability to deter an attack from China. This is incredibly concerning as China ramps up its belligerence towards Taiwan.

– Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Reinstating and fully enforcing Remain-in-Mexico would deter thousands more migrants from making that deadly trek, and President Biden should take that simple step to secure the border because it is the only humane thing to do.

– Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Russia therefore wishes to use its military power to intimidate Japan in the hope that this will deter Tokyo from imposing further such measures.

– James Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The dire straits Ukraine's fighters find themselves in are not so much about delays in delivering the arms we've agreed to send - it's more that those arms aren't sufficient to tip the balance on the battlefield, unfortunately we, and none more than the Ukrainians, are learning how costly it can be when we fail to deter war.

– Morgan Ortagus

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We remain open to future diplomacy -- and fully prepared to deter and to defeat future aggression.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even though the North’s nuclear and missile capabilities are mainly to deter a strike from the U.S. or South Korea, they also allow North Korea to deter any attempt from China to influence its decisions, i think that Beijing's uneasiness with Pyongyang's nuclear tests shows that North Korea has pursued this, and its missile programs regardless of China's views.

– Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Sanctions are not an end to themselves. They serve a higher purpose. And that purpose is to deter and prevent, they’re meant to prevent and deter a large-scale invasion of Ukraine that could involve the seizure of major cities, including Kyiv. They’re meant to prevent large-scale human suffering that could involve tens of thousands of casualties in a conflict.

– Daleep Singh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[H]e waited far too long to enact sanctions that would deter Putin in some way, our president should not be telling our adversaries what we won’t do.

– Mike Garcia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Vladimir Putin will embrace the idea that we might self-deter every time he issues a press release. And lawyerly hair-splitting about providing this kind of weaponry is not escalatory but providing that kind of weaponry is escalatory – I don't think we really believe that, i think the administration is pushing the intelligence community to give them cover for lean forward decisions they don't want to be making.

– Ben Sasse

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We obviously take it very seriously when Russian President Vladimir Putin's signaling in this way, but we do think [ that ] Russian President Vladimir Putin is effectively signaling, that Russian President Vladimir Putin's attempting to deter.

– United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We do think that he is effectively signaling he’s attempting to deter.

– Avril Haines

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We see threats pop up periodically, those specifically associated to this heightened sense we've seen an uptick, but we're not aware of any campaign that's explicitly targeting the city itself, we deter a significant number of threats per day … But as it stands right now, there's no compromise, or there haven't been any compromises worth noting.

– Matthew Fraser

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When the dust settles, despite the very real bravery on display by the Ukrainian people, deterrence in this case failed. The Biden Administration thought that sanctions and tweets would be enough to deter, but they failed to apply the kind of hard power that would have deterred Putin from launching this war in the first place. By the way, a war that could still escalate and involve us at any moment.

– Mike Gallagher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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