How to Use deterrence in a Sentence

deterrence

noun

• The author argues that deterrence is no longer the best way to prevent war.
• Not that the commission has done much on the deterrence front.
  — Jon Healey, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• Israeli prison should be a form of deterrence, and not a reward.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2023
• And, of course, defense is a backstop against the failure of deterrence.
  — The Editors, National Review, 10 Oct. 2022
• Now the next step for Tyler is to adjust to these latest attempts at deterrence.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2023
• But none of these threats have caused the U.S. to change its own nuclear posture of strategic deterrence.
  — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2022
• Above all else, America needs to reestablish the deterrence that has eroded for three years now.
  — The Editors, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
• Police are in the planning stages for focused deterrence.
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
• But when push comes to shove and defensive deterrence is required.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022
• Because for Israel, this is a war to restore deterrence.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Israeli analysts say a restoration of deterrence is one aim of this war.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2023
• The drills were meant to check and improve the country's war deterrence while also standing as a warning sign for enemies.
  — Haley Chi-Sing, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2022
• Nutter was a vocal proponent of stop-and-frisk, as part of a larger program of crime deterrence.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
• The United States and its Asian allies have been betting on military deterrence to stay his hand.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
• Running along telephone wires above my yard were squirrels — whose deterrence has been the subject of a recent column.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024
• In doing so, the planes also fulfill a greater mission: nuclear deterrence and keeping the peace.
  — Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2023
• That’s hardly a deterrence for Wall Street, where all but two of the 63 analysts tracked by Bloomberg covering the company have buy ratings.
  — Subrat Patnaik, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
• Europe, for its part, has pushed people coming by boat through the Mediterranean back to North African shores, where countries have imposed brutal regimes of deterrence.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
• Their willingness to engage in this with us is very significant in terms of deterrence.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2023
• Conservatives have made deterrence one of their flagship issues ahead of an election planned for this year.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
• Real deterrence, Veenstra agreed, means shifting the social scene so that bullying doesn’t make friends or fans.
  — Gail Cornwall, Good Housekeeping, 19 Aug. 2023
• But this gang knows the United States has tremendous deterrence skills, has tremendous investigative abilities, and the will to hunt people down.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2023
• In response, the Pentagon launched a large-scale attack and killed a key militia leader in Baghdad, restoring some deterrence and an uneasy calm.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
• Following Hamas' attack on Israel, the United States has sent a clear message of deterrence to prevent the conflict from spreading.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Even the pair’s conventional deterrence measures—such as oiling the ravens’ eggs, which prevents them from hatching—are carried out with high-tech flair, including the use of drones.
  — Brett Marty, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
• How much sharing of weapons systems increases deterrence without adding to risks of conflict?
  — Damien Cave Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
• For many in Pakistan, the unprovoked nature of the attack gave Islamabad no choice but to establish deterrence.
  — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
• Brown acknowledged that there is a delicate balance to be struck between the U.S. goal of deterrence in the region while also protecting U.S. forces.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2024
• The process may have some deterrence powers: two opponents might reach the same conclusion about the outcome, preempting any need to trigger a conflict in the physical world.
  — Bruno Maçães, Time, 10 July 2023
• Tehran maintains that its missile program is only for defense and deterrence.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024