Word: deters
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...work freely, and his subsequent refusals to live up to them, are part of a stalling game. His aim may be to string the West along until the end of the year, when he could have the plutonium for six or eight atom bombs -- which might be enough to deter attack or blackmail a neighbor. By this theory, confrontation -- even war -- may be the only way to stop...
...possibility of revolution, which prompted foreign banks to stop lending for fear their money would be lost, that was mostly responsible for the white minority's finally ceding power. If, as it seems, North Korea's nukes have become central to the Kims' sense of themselves, no sanctions will deter their desire to expand whatever it is that they already have. Nor will sanctions reduce the probability that they will sell their nuclear technology (and the means to use it), just as they have marketed every other weapons system they have produced. Short of an unlikely diplomatic breakthrough...
...everyone, however, thinks that society can afford to deter unlicensed drivers by threatening them with jail. "It would be prohibitively expensive to incarcerate people on that level, and there is a legitimate question of whether it is the appropriate punishment to fit the crime," says Dave DeYoung, a research analyst at the California department of motor vehicles. While 60% to 70% of suspended California motorists ignore the sanctions, many of them take pains to avoid being caught and fined again. "They tend to drive less often and more carefully," says DeYoung. "The letter of the law is being violated...
Bachrach says the way to deter crime is to focus on reducing drug and alcohol abuse, joblessness and hopelessness. He also supports expanding funding for the Department of Youth Services...
...when it is convenient. The hope was that as the U.N. met its obligations and showed aggressors that they would meet with united resistance, the need for such operations would decline. Just like a domestic police force, the U.N., by fostering the expectation of a response, was designed to deter aggression...