Word: deterent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peacekeeping record is a point of contention in the the UN's efficacy as an institution. If peacekeeping forces are not supposed to use violence, how can they effectively keep the peace and credibly deter future violence within areas of civil conflict? But perhaps our own conceptions of peacekeeping must evolve before we evaluate a given operation's success...
...this show of individual bravado didn't seem to deter would-be burglars. On Saturday morning, Matthews Hall was hit again...
While professors say they do not let the amount of material deter them from choosing the best authors, they do try to take the amount of pages assigned each week into account...
...spent the morning telling me how great I was and how he wanted to be part of the "Joel Stein business." I told him I didn't have any scripts or ideas for scripts or even the ability to write a script. This did not deter him at all. It was all so overwhelming and exciting, I forgot to ask him what a manager does. This, I now realize, is probably how Mike Tyson got hooked up with Don King. Because even though I knew the whole thing was completely phony, it made me feel pretty. At one point, Weitzman...
Back in 1948, Mao Zedong pooh-poohed U.S. military power as a "paper tiger"; half a century later the gibe may be rebounding. A week of furious saber rattling ? including the announcement of neutron-bomb capability and reports that the Chinese army was on full alert ? failed to deter Taiwan?s President Lee Teng-hui on Tuesday from reiterating his policy shift away from the "One China" concept toward "state-to-state" relations with Beijing. And as if Taiwan's thumbing its nose at Asia?s mightiest military power weren?t humiliation enough for Beijing, the Philippine navy on Tuesday...