Word: deterring
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...paintings that are not included in "Andrea Mantegna," the show of more than 130 works by him and others that will be at the Royal Academy of Arts in London through early April before moving to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art in May. But this should deter no one -- any chance to see a number of Mantegnas together ought to be grabbed, and this show is more a scholarly one than a spectacle, with catalog essays that break new ground in Mantegna research...
...worsened since the Sept. 30 coup that deposed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, they maintain that most of the boat people are economic migrants whose free-floating fears of persecution are not grounds enough for asylum. Backed by a Jan. 31 Supreme Court decision, little can now deter the Administration's plan to empty the detention camps, save a public outcry...
...effective since 1960, was originally intended to deter Communist insurgency. Tunku Abdul Rahman, prime minister at the time of Malaysia's formation, pledged that "the immense powers given to the government under the ISA would never be used to stifle legitimate opposition and silence lawful dissent," according to Asia Watch...
...Robert McNamara coined the phrase "assured destruction" to describe how the U.S. and the Soviet Union aimed atomic weapons at each other to deter a nuclear war. When wags prefixed the word mutual to McNamara's expression, the cold war era was acronymically defined...
Tosteson invokes the Hippocratic injunction in an eloquent speech against violence, but instead of taking action to deter further incidents of this kind, he has decided to appoint an ad hoc faculty and student Committee on Racial and Ethnic Sensitivities which will study how other institutions have addressed similar problems...