deterrent example

Other outbreaks occurred at other points, all of which were suppressed with difficulty, but with great severity, many of the leaders being summarily shot as a deterrent example.

In the Kercher case, a powerful deterrent example to reporters was already in place.

Wherein is related what end was reserved for the evil-doers by way of deterrent example, which example, however, only distressed the soft-hearted without terrifying the stiff-necked.

The government of the United States of North America was cited as a deterrent example.

But, surely, the antithesis lies between Alexander the ideal of the young, and Alexander the deterrent example of the old.