Word: deterring
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...tragedy didn’t deter parents from visiting their children. Attendance this weekend was similar to that of previous years...
...found and frozen about $300 million in Osama bin Laden's and the Taliban's money, and while some of it could revert to a future Afghan government, this may not deter potential plaintiffs--including victims of the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. "For families of victims, suing bin Laden and the Taliban is a way of fighting back," says Pamela Falk, a law professor at the City University of New York. If Congress lists Afghanistan as a terrorist state, she says, "the prospects have never looked better...
Krieger said he worries that fear of additional attacks will deter Americans from living and working in the cities, a trend revived only a decade...
...States military has an undeniable anti-gay bias. This fact is incontrovertible. Despite the imposition of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in the last decade, which has substantially reduced the problem, there remain rules that restrict and deter homosexuals from joining the armed forces. For instance, if a soldier is so much as seen with a romantic partner of the same gender off-duty, he or she can be discharged. This is wrong and has no place in a society, unlike those of which we have read...
...These sweeps are all orchestrated to have a public relations strategy,” Good said. “They grab a lot of people, and try to deter underage drinking. But several people got arrested who did nothing. This is an abuse...