Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...technical know-how to build nuclear weapons cannot be abolished no matter how carefully arms-control treaties are drafted. Truly determined governments, among them many smaller nations that covet prestige and power, cannot be prevented from buying or building nuclear arms. The U.S. will have to be prepared to deter nuclear-armed dictators, and to intervene against them if necessary, in order to protect its friends and head off nuclear blackmail...
...Unfortunately, the state and local courtsystems aren't there to rehabilitate, they'rethere to deter you." said Walsh. "A number ofpeople are repeaters because the system enablesyou to repeat...
...said Young's letter was intended to makenew residents of the Garden St. building think ofthemselves as a community within a communityrather than to deter socializing...
...seeking foreigners had been registered since the mayhem began. In Ketzin, 10 miles from Berlin, 44 Auslander barely escaped with their lives when the building they inhabited was razed by torch throwers. Official calls for special police powers to confront the skinheads and neo-Nazis did not seem to deter anyone. Although there was no breakdown in civic order, the attacks reached to the front door of the government: right-wingers threw fire bombs at a house of asylum seekers a mile from Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Bonn office...
...same time, and right of self-deter-mination is perceived as the key to empowering marginalized ethnic groups, which is why (at least in America) even the dominant groups often accept the accentuation of differences even at the price of losing a greater cohesion...