How to Use deterrence in a Sentence

deterrence

noun

• The author argues that deterrence is no longer the best way to prevent war.
• 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
• Except that no serious deterrence policies emerged, and the numbers didn’t drop or even level off.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2021
• But there is little evidence of an effective deterrence.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 June 2021
• The agencies were counting on wild and dangerous terrain to serve as a deterrence for unauthorized migration.
  — Jasmine Aguilera, Time, 20 Aug. 2021
• Argueta came up with the makeshift window shade as a form of deterrence after colleagues complained about the constant crowd of students gathering outside.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
• This has had the effect of switching the focus of the debate on terror from the problem of security and deterrence to the vague question of intellectual complicity.
  — Harrison Stetler, The New Republic, 24 May 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And then two, to be able to defeat those adversaries in war should that deterrence fail.
  — CBS News, 15 Sep. 2022
• But none of these threats have caused the U.S. to change its own nuclear posture of strategic deterrence.
  — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2022
• Critics say the problem is too much friend making and not enough deterrence.
  — Massimo Calabresi / Washington, TIME, 4 June 2024
• Their mission will be to train and provide deterrence but not to engage in combat in Ukraine.
  — Fox News, 12 Feb. 2022
• That was something that worked itself out through a pattern of deterrence and crisis and hard work.
  — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2021
• Think of his Afghanistan withdrawal, and his self-deterrence vis-à-vis Russia in Ukraine.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 16 July 2022
• Above all else, America needs to reestablish the deterrence that has eroded for three years now.
  — The Editors, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
• The war has imperilled a long-standing premise of deterrence—having a bomb to avoid being bombed.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2022
• But the larger message, the broader hope that Jan. 6 might serve as an enduring deterrence against political violence and insurrection, has much less stamina.
  — Antonio Fins, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024
• The events of the past year have upended long-standing redlines, deterrence parameters, and traditional rules of engagement among foes, and Riyadh is in a uniquely strong position to midwife a better regional order.
  — Maria Fantappie, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024