deterrent

Increasing the fee that is available for local authorities to penalise drivers will be a "stronger deterrent", he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

How similar in practice depends on the deterrent power of U.S. capabilities across the full spectrum of military, economic, diplomatic and informational endeavors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Maybe threatening to attack is enough of a deterrent, and maybe military escorts are effective, Mills said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

He writes that the rule will have an “obvious deterrent effect on student enrollment,” and notes that dozens of international students have already withdrawn from their programs.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Not only did all those police act as a deterrent, but they also provided the manpower to imprison criminals who might have otherwise gone uncaught.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

The council has asked businesses in the town's centre to consider putting spikes and other deterrents on their building's front ledges.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

“And the durability of this truce depends less on the warmth of the words exchanged by the two leaders than on the credibility of the deterrents they can wield against each other.”

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

In recent years, consumers in the eurozone have faced multiple deterrents to loosening their purse strings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

The action was taken after a months-long campaign of using nonlethal deterrents, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

The pervasive emptiness and stultifying summer heat were only minor deterrents when compared with the more elemental consideration that all the banking and commercial institutions were based elsewhere, chiefly in Philadelphia and New York.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis