dissuasion
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He previously sued CNN, accusing the network of playing a part in a "campaign of dissuasion in the form of libel and slander against" him, seeking $475 million in punitive damages.
From Salon ● May 4, 2023
The brief lays out a three-pronged approach: deterrence against North Korean military threats, dissuasion of the regime’s nuclear pursuits through sanctions and pressure, and diplomacy to re-engage Pyongyang in disarmament talks.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2022
“The dissuasion is working. But then, the less we talk about it, the less we brandish the threat, the more credible we are.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
The second facet that has marked India’s external relations is deterrence, the dissuasion of others from using or threatening force.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2013
The dissuasion of the indigenous is so earnest, and so without exception, that, considering their knowledge of the facts, a prudent stranger must perceive in them the substance of reason.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
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