Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting off to a paralyzing start did not deter the period of expansion which get under full steam around 1910. Three years later, in 1913, Professor Cunningham told how the University finally fully realized that the little cellar institution was not only a mushroom, but a good...
...Chiang Kai-shek told the People's Political Council: "No difficulties or sacrifices must deter us from the fulfillment of our duties as one unit of the forces of the United Nations. ... It is not for us boastfully to talk of China's right to a position of 'leadership' among the Asiatic countries. We shall rather regard it as our responsibility to treat the peoples of Asia as equals to help and support...
...Issue of domestic bonds based on these loans. These bonds would be presented as long-range savings and it would be hoped that they would 1) absorb some of the recklessly printed banknotes; 2) deter some of the hoarding, which is a form of short-range savings...
...today, there are those who persist in their efforts to deter and delay us. According to them, we brought the Japanese onslaught on ourselves; or that it was a British plot; or that it was the plot of Jewish international finance...
...high bag of night attackers may have caused the Germans to take pause. In May the British claimed 156 German night raiders, compared to 90 in April, 47 in March, 15 each in February and January. But even this rapid progression was probably not enough in itself to deter the Germans, for the bag never ran higher than about 10% of attacking planes, and that only on a few fair moonlit nights...