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
• But if deterrence could not be supplied, the only other way to prevent Stalin from ordering the Red Army westward was to engage his demands.
  — Monica Duffy Toft, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2025
• But deterrence isn’t just a question of the number of missiles; demonstrating the operational credibility of Europe’s nuclear forces is also essential.
  — Joseph Ataman, CNN, 16 Mar. 2025