Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack of a congress for the treatment of international problems and for the propagation of deep rooted amity such as America possesses theoretically in the Pan American Union has dangerously inverted its national and economic consciousness. Again, it realizes the menace that Russia once stabilized will present with its deter, mined propagandist program for the conversion of all nations to communism, or the power that any of the great peoples of the world would have in event of war against the separate forces of Europe, bound by nationality and conflicting in interest...
...difference in our views is merely this: That, according to you, mankind's improvement will be accomplished when ordinary people become supermen, or fresh supermen are produced; while in my opinion it will occur when men disencumber the true religions of Christianity from all the accretions which deter them, and when all, uniting in the understanding of life which lies at the base of all, realize their reasonable relation to the world's eternal origin and accept the guidance for life which flows therefrom...
...gambling racketeers who resented having the most criminal city in the U. S. publicized as a sudden convert to law & order. The bombers' technique appeared to derive from a style of bombing inaugurated last autumn by the Chicago Association of Candy Jobbers, whose methodical representatives found little to deter them from pitching "pineapples" (hand grenades) into independent goody factories...
During speechmaking, the room was darkened and spotlights played on a life-sized oil portrait of Andrew Jackson, the hardbitten, relentless foe of Federalism. Andrew Jackson was the President who introduced the "spoils system" of patronage into national government, but that did not deter Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer for the New York Evening World, from excoriating the "Harding Gang." As historian and first speaker of the evening, Mr. Bowers had first chance to attack the Republicans; he did it so thoroughly that subsequent speakers felt free to talk mainly about themselves or other Democrats...
...Though she can comprehend the nature and consequences of her acts, her will is powerless to deter her from courses of conduct that have their roots in her emotional abnormality," glibly states her lawyer in his plea for elemency. It is said that the defence of young Hickman will be virtually the same, in his instance the abnormality being sadism. These two cases, together with the shocking acquittal of bootlegger Remus, seem a perfect justification of Governor Smith's plan for a board of criminologists and psychiatrists who might make disposal of all convicted criminals. It would remove the perplexing...