How to Use deterrence in a Sentence

deterrence

noun

• The author argues that deterrence is no longer the best way to prevent war.
• The hard question is how to achieve that kind of strong deterrence.
  — William J. Broad, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2021
• Not that the commission has done much on the deterrence front.
  — Jon Healey, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• The move has aroused fears of a U.S. war with Russia, but the goal here is deterrence to prevent a war.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2022
• Then the city hired him to help with focused deterrence.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2024
• And the way to reestablish deterrence is to ignore the arms of the octopus and go straight for its head.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 19 Apr. 2024
• The United States may have reached the limits of deterrence.
  — Dara Lind, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2020
• This breaks our entire sense of how war and deterrence might work.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2021
• Israeli prison should be a form of deterrence, and not a reward.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2023
• And, of course, defense is a backstop against the failure of deterrence.
  — The Editors, National Review, 10 Oct. 2022
• Still, a few more rebounds would help, as would the presence of some rim deterrence.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• Thus, the burden of deterrence and defense against it is not going to lighten in the near term.
  — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2024
• This is all meant to project resolve, deterrence and to show that Putin's attempt to get the US out of Europe will fail.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
• Both deterrence and arms control are stronger when they are linked.
  — Michael Krepon, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• That’s why deterrence, in my view, works more often than not.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 May 2024
• For those flush with cash to last a lifetime, the staggering prices aren’t a deterrence.
  — Faris Mokhtar, Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2020
• So maybe that will be a form of deterrence that's largely been lost since this war began.
  — CBS News, 18 May 2022
• He was blocked once, a deterrence that wasn’t enough to keep him from scoring on three other drives.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• Now the next step for Tyler is to adjust to these latest attempts at deterrence.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2023
• Break with the left’s refusal to change the asylum rules in order to send a stronger signal of deterrence to migrants.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 July 2021
• Kangmei’s case just once again shows the lack of deterrence for financial fraud in the A-share market.
  — Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2020
• And then two, to be able to defeat those adversaries in war should that deterrence fail.
  — CBS News, 15 Sep. 2022
• Iron Dome is one of his tools for keeping the peace of deterrence and making time work in Israel’s favor.
  — Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 24 May 2021
• Now, deterrence is much more about who has the most capacity to make stuff.
  — Colin Demarest, Axios, 18 Dec. 2024
• In terms of the SolarWinds incident, the deterrence game is not yet over.
  — Erica Borghard, Wired, 17 Dec. 2020
• But none of these threats have caused the U.S. to change its own nuclear posture of strategic deterrence.
  — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2022
• At some point, however, the concept of deterrence has to be weaponized to mean something.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
• Critics say the problem is too much friend making and not enough deterrence.
  — Massimo Calabresi / Washington, TIME, 4 June 2024
• Extended deterrence was a sham, and the people who relied on it were suckers.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2025
• And that does mean European forces, both on land and in air, and at sea, made available to ensure that there is an effective deterrence against any Russian further incursion and -- into an attack on Ukraine.
  — ABC News, 2 Mar. 2025