Word: deter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother would determine whether a black child was a slave or free. Three years later, Maryland went a step further, declaring that if either of a child's parents was a slave, the child would also be. The purpose of this law, its authors said, was to deter "divers freeborn English women" from marrying black slaves. But it did nothing to deter white male slave owners from trying to expand their human holdings by impregnating black female slaves...
When asked about risk of injury due to equipment he said that there isn't any intrinsic danger in the sport that would deter people from supporting...
...United States has also maintained its ability to respond to chemical attack even without resorting to chemical weapons. The treaty explicitly provides for the development of weapons defense programs, and wide military consensus has acknowledged that chemical weapons are not needed to deter other chemical weapons. According to Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), a prominent supporter of the treaty, the intelligence community firmly believes that the CWC would enhance our ability to monitor the chemical weapons programs of non-member-nations and, thus, only adds to our defense system...
PBHA Vice-President Michael W. Ma '98 said "the letter does raise a lot of concerns that are present" and said that the letter could deter potential donors to Harvard and PBHA...
Verba said that the curricular requirements for Core courses are not that onerous and should not deter professors from bringing their courses into the Core...