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...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...
...independence of the breakaway republics of Slovenia and Croatia in the face of continuing attacks by the Serb-dominated national army. On the eve of an E.C. foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels, the Germans were in a distinct minority in their push for recognition -- a move they said would deter further Serbian assaults. By the next day, in an unexpected show of diplomatic muscle, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had cajoled and bullied the European partners into partial agreement by threatening that Germany would act alone if they failed to go along...
...FINENESS OF A LINE, Justice Felix Frankfurter once wrote, should not deter us from trying to draw it. So while it is not always an easy task to distinguish vandalism from free expression, harassment from free speech, a community concerned with the rights of its members must try to make sensible distinctions...