Word: deter
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...shortcomings of Project Sentinel failed to deter the determined Horowitz and team. They followed up the project with Megachannel Extra-Terrestrial Assay (META) in 1985, and then with Billion-channel ExtraTerrestrial Assay (BETA...
...that standardized tests deter some minority and low-income students from applying...
...drama on the Greek island suggests that police round-ups, public ire and poor living conditions aren't about to deter people fleeing their poorer, troubled homelands. Asked why children are sent off alone from their home countries, Ioannou paused, and said: "They come for their lives...
...result of the new probe, in a week when Olmert should have been regaling the press about Israel's myriad successes, he was instead parrying accusations that he had allegedly threatened Talansky to deter him from giving evidence to Israeli police. "Who am I, Tony Soprano?" Olmert remarked angrily...
...contest raised another question that haunts Obama to this day: Does he have the will to win? Halfway through the race, he took his family to Hawaii for Christmas, missing a key vote in Springfield on legislation to make illegal gun possession a felony. The measure was intended to deter violence in the kind of gun-ravaged neighborhoods he was seeking to represent. Illinois's governor, who called a special session to pass the measure, pleaded with Obama to come back. His staff did too. But Obama, who had previously supported the bill, refused to return for the vote...