Synonym: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment. Similar words: detente, determined, deteriorate, current, currently, recurrent, irreverent, extraterrestrial. Meaning: [-nt] n. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress. adj. tending to deter.
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61. Whether that would act as a deterrent is, of course, another question altogether.
62. As an added deterrent, this species usually waits until the last moment for the final clamping-down movement.
63. We need to have the deterrent effect this action would have.
64. The small fines for copying software were not much of a deterrent.
65. Weather was no deterrent for him and was never allowed to interfere with his plans ....
66. Will my right hon. Friend not stint in providing Britain with the best independent deterrent?
67. They have exerted a definite deterrent effect on the previous job discrimination experienced by epileptics and other people with medical handicaps.sentence dictionary
68. And yet, what could have been the clearest deterrent for intermarriage since Prince Charles, didn't last long.
69. The result was the uneasy compromise between deterrent and retributive aims that characterised neoclassicism.
70. The F-111s are ageing and their credibility as a deterrent depends upon their ability to penetrate increasingly sophisticated Soviet air defences.
71. Maxmian ordered the execution of every tenth man, which proved to be an ineffective deterrent.
72. The fines for speeding are large, but even so[sentencedict.com], they are not always a deterrent.
73. They have twisted and turned in their attitude to our nuclear deterrent.
74. The final deterrent to widespread acceptance of encryption is its difficulty to use.
75. It is therefore difficult to avoid the conclusion that the effect of insurance is in general to reduce the deterrent effect of liability.
76. It is a matter of regret that the Opposition's commitment to that deterrent is not generally accepted.
77. Full-time employment may be less of a deterrent to childbearing if mothers can pay for personal child care.
78. Only when it comes to the nuclear deterrent or matters of top intelligence-gathering is the short-term commercial approach deliberately shelved.
79. Therefore, the designation of specially protected areas is perhaps quite effective as a deterrent.
80. The nuclear deterrent has been very effective in ensuring the security of the west over the past 40 years.
81. He believes that the deterrent effect, which no longer seems to exist for young people, should be reinstated.
82. The effectiveness of rapid amphibious and air-transported intervention as a deterrent to predator states had been clearly demonstrated.
83. A half squadron of gendarmes has been stationed in Maripasoula, their presence supposedly acting as a deterrent.
84. A redshirt season should be an ample deterrent to transferring.
85. Now, there can be little doubt that the existence of a system of punishment has some general deterrent effect.
86. In addition, divided catalogues or separate classified catalogues could also have acted as a deterrent to subject searching.
87. The bishops said the death penalty was not a deterrent to crime, had racist overtones and cost millions of dollars.
88. But perhaps the strongest deterrent to a unified front against Fujimori is the region's almost instinctive opposition to U.S. interference.
89. The punitive damages that we awarded is a deterrent for other murders, not just Mr Simpson.
90. Requiring drug tests of this discrete group of citizens is an intrusion, a humiliation and a subtle deterrent to prospective candidates.
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