Word: determent
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...advocated the legalization of torture in the United States. Roth said that they might have the best intentions in mind, but that they overlook crucial problems in their proposal. Instead of focusing on torturing terrorists to make them talk, the United States should fight terrorism by combatting active terrorists, deterring “would-be terrorists,” and punishing those who have already commited terrorists acts, Roth said. Roth said that most useful information about terrorist attacks is gathered from the general public. Legalizing torture, he said, would make people more reluctant to help the police since people...
...that is the case--if much of the negative feeling regarding Opus at this point is displaced anger over the direction of the church--then The Da Vinci Code may be the best fate that could befall it. The movie will not deter Opus' usual constituency--conservative Catholics do not look to Ron Howard for guidance. But by forcing Opus into greater transparency, the film could aid it: if the organization is as harmless and "mature" as Bohlin contends, then such exposure could bring in a bumper crop of devotees--with perhaps even more to come if, as seems likely...
...adding more border guards, deputizing retired police officers to patrol the frontier and authorizing citizen militias to hunt and capture illegal border crossers. Inhofe argued that the conditions in which captured border jumpers are held--he mentioned the provision of sports facilities and good food--are too pleasant to deter aliens from crossing into...
...when I see friends back home trapped in their lives and their mortgages." To further encourage defections, he is writing a sequel to the Casablanca book, provisionally titled In Arabian Nights and including his experiences in other Moroccan locales. In truth, Shah's tales of hair-raising hardship may deter newcomers, but he remains undaunted. "A guy came by yesterday and showed me some pictures of these incredible homes down in Fez," he enthuses. "I'm crazily thinking maybe we should renovate another one. You can buy a quite big house there for only $30,000." Jinns included...
...doing this," says Robert Douglas, a security consultant and former private investigator. He notes that there are about 60,000 licensed private investigators in the U.S. "Unfortunately, anyone worth his salt knows who to turn to for phone records," he says. Wireless carriers are also revamping their practices to deter infiltration. Most will no longer release calling records by fax or e-mail. They have even tightened rules about giving records to people who claim to have lost a cell phone...