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...basis, because if it wasn't, the U.S. would have a very difficult time trying to navigate and maneuver in Northeast Asia. Korea will continue to strengthen our traditional close alliance with the U.S. because this will not only ensure the peaceful stability of Northeast Asia but also will deter war on the Korean peninsula. At the same time, we will also develop and strengthen our relationship with China...
Incensed by government inaction, many Burmese have personally delivered bags of rice and drinking water to Nargis refugees. The country's top brass have not taken kindly to such private largesse, setting up roadblocks to deter relief convoys and hassling some monks who hand out mosquito nets or scoops of rice. An aid effort spearheaded by a comedian who made government misrule his fodder was bound to irk the junta...
...shortcomings of Project Sentinel failed to deter the determined Horowitz and team. They followed up the project with Megachannel Extra-Terrestrial Assay (META) in 1985, and then with Billion-channel ExtraTerrestrial Assay (BETA...
...that standardized tests deter some minority and low-income students from applying...
...drama on the Greek island suggests that police round-ups, public ire and poor living conditions aren't about to deter people fleeing their poorer, troubled homelands. Asked why children are sent off alone from their home countries, Ioannou paused, and said: "They come for their lives...