Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorable vote came on a 1939 proposal to spend $5,000,000 for dredging and improving Guam's harbor, constructing seaplane ramps and a few buildings. Actually, these improvements would have done little to deter the Japanese seizure in December...
...will come closer to reality. Meanwhile, America and Britain lose nothing by postponing their tests. Their action would have a substantial propaganda effect, for it would deprive the Communists of the initiative they have gained by their announcement. Knowing that our nuclear retaliatory powers are already high enough to deter potential aggression, we cannot afford to refuse as attractive an offer as that of the Russians...
...from afar to bring Hussein down. The danger also threatened that Nasser's ally Syria might invade Jordan-possibly toppling Hussein, possibly touching off an explosion that would drag the U.S. into hot war. It was clearly to the interest of the U.S. and of world order to deter Syria-or Egypt or Russia or Israel-from intervening against Hussein...
...attacked, and Hussein had not asked for help (although he had clearly declared that his troubles were being compounded by international Communism). The mission of the Sixth Fleet, which started patrolling the Mediterranean ten years before the Eisenhower Doctrine was born, was not to apply the doctrine, but to deter an outbreak of gunplay that might make it necessary for the U.S. to apply the doctrine...
...about it." He appealed to the jury to "call it a bad day and let the boy go on in life." District Attorney Ralph Prince, who let 15 months go by before pressing the indictment, argued less forcibly that the jury should give Ross a jail sentence "that will deter others from committing a similar crime." The jury retired at 4:55 p.m. Ninety minutes later it was back with its verdict: guilty of murder, "without malice." The jury's recommended sentence: five years, suspended. Killer Ross was turned loose...