Word: deterred
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Despite this pre-existing relationship, Moriarty noted that Harvard has a limited involvement in the project right now since it is still in its early stages. However, this should not deter the University from becoming more involved in the future, Murphy and Sullivan said...
...struggles of striking graduate students at NYU might deter their counterparts at other private universities, including Harvard, from demanding collective-bargaining rights...
Luckily, we also live in an era in which research is showing us how to nurture and maintain our mental faculties?from infancy through the golden years?and how to deter what was once seen as an inevitable decline. Some new findings confirm what we have always suspected: Grandma was right?fish really is brain food; a steaming cup of joe actually does turbocharge our mental acuity; getting less than eight hours of sleep seriously compromises our ability to concentrate and solve problems...
...terrorism unhindered by some long-established legal norms. Most Americans agree that the government has to go after terrorists aggressively and with all appropriate means. Where they part company is on the question of what means are appropriate, at least if the goal is not only to deter another attack but also to protect both the freedom of Americans and the reputation of their country as one that takes ideas like decency and justice seriously. In the White House version of how that struggle must be conducted, it's acceptable to hold captured suspects indefinitely without trial, hand them over...
...death penalty still exists in a country that disavows “cruel and unusual punishment” in its very constitution. The death penalty exists today as a grisly spectacle meant to soothe the retributive minds of a majority of Americans as much as it does to deter potential violent criminals from committing crimes. But punishment should not be tailored to the electorate. Rather it should follow the same moral norms that every citizen of the United States is expected to follow—moral norms that prohibit killing except in self-defense. As Stanley Williams reportedly tried...