Word: deterent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...independence of the breakaway republics of Slovenia and Croatia in the face of continuing attacks by the Serb-dominated national army. On the eve of an E.C. foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels, the Germans were in a distinct minority in their push for recognition -- a move they said would deter further Serbian assaults. By the next day, in an unexpected show of diplomatic muscle, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had cajoled and bullied the European partners into partial agreement by threatening that Germany would act alone if they failed to go along...
...FINENESS OF A LINE, Justice Felix Frankfurter once wrote, should not deter us from trying to draw it. So while it is not always an easy task to distinguish vandalism from free expression, harassment from free speech, a community concerned with the rights of its members must try to make sensible distinctions...
...Israel has trained its own nuclear weapons primarily on the Soviet Union since it made its first warheads in 1968. His explanation: Jerusalem thought Arab nations would not launch a concerted war to destroy the Jewish state unless they had Soviet backing; targeting Israeli nukes on the U.S.S.R. would deter Moscow from offering such support. According to the book, Israel asked Pollard to steal satellite pictures in the first place so that it could aim its missiles at targets beyond border areas of the Soviet Union. For that, Jerusalem needed intelligence data -- which Washington refused to share...
...American legal system is based largely on the principal of deterrence, and such an allowance hardly serves to deter potential criminals. In fact it rewards deranged criminals who commit crimes so monstrous that they both repulse the American public and appeal to a sick fascination with the horrific...
...past, supporters justified these weapons in spite of the drawbacks, because of the need to deter a Soviet ground advance against Western Europe. Given that the current state of the Soviet Union makes that invasion rather unlikely, American tactical nuclear forces in Europe have outlived their mission...