Deter used in a sentence

Deter in a sentence as a verb

Some nations increased prison sentences to try and deter crime, and crime went down.

It would be a super-cheap way to build US credibility in the region, help people, and deter future conflict.

If deterrent, then we might have an empirical disagreement, about which lengths of sentences in fact deter crimes.

The paraphrase:Q: Will the UK's detention of your partner deter your future reporting?A: Absolutely not.

But that only happened after Levison did his best to deter the DOJ from collecting information about Snowden.

As such, once the decision has been made to do something relatively harmless, the deterrent effect of prison no longer applies.

And so this is a good piece to add to your knowledge base but it should not deter you from using non-equity forms of seed funding as long as use of these tools meets your bigger goals.

Insurance companies should be forbidden to decline applicants, or to constructively deter them with shady pricing schemes.

Reward schemes are there to increase the purchases of one-off products, whereas you want to deter unlimited customers from abusing their product.

Punishment has three purposes: Punishing the criminal to deter repeat offenses, having a preventive effect on other criminals and protecting society.

And, for every "windfall" gained by such investors, you have all sorts of cases where the failure rate is particularly high because of the extreme risks existing at the earliest stages before it is even determined that a company is truly "fundable.