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How to use deter in a sentence

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But these did not deter her from devoting her entire life to the dance and also to resuscitate Bharatanatyam.
But councillors decided to shelve the plans after protesters claimed the 50 pence-an-hour charge would deter people from using the parks.
Councillors are planning to install speed bumps and a mini-roundabout to deter rush-hour traffic from using East Bierley as a rat-run.
And for the minority of people who can't, having restricted licensing hours is highly unlikely to deter them.
For healthy apple trees, plant some nasturtiums and mint around the trunks to deter woolly aphids.
We desperately need a similar increase in measures to deter the thieves, the robbers and the yobs.
Climatic conditions were unkind on the second evening, but that did not deter a sizeable crowd from braving the elements.
It instead violates a prophylactic rule intended to help discipline police and deter coerced confessions.
Rommel was quick on the trigger, attacking all openings with well balanced strikes that could easily deter any simple man or woman.
Such preparation serves to deter the use of biological weapons, because the opponent's original asymmetric advantage has been reduced.
Suffice to say that it doesn't for a moment deter me from living and working in London this coming year.
Cardboard boxes are being replaced with plastic tubs, to deter mice, mud-wasps and suchlike.
This brave new weapon in the battle against pedophiles could also deter kidnappers and molesters.
This did not deter the tug of war teams as they slid and tugged on the rope or the audience who cheered them on.
To deter illegitimate businesses from capitalizing on these advantages, Belize imposes heavy fines and imprisonment for money laundering.
There is a pressing need to improve mechanisms to effectively prevent and deter acts of terrorism.
Hummingbirds don't have much sense of smell, so the scent of the herbs won't deter them from seeking nectar from their blossoms.
The scientific evidence that it improves memory is fairly slender, but that doesn't seem to deter many.
First, labor law must more clearly delineate such threats as illegal, and impose big enough penalties to deter employers from making them.
The morality of threats to use mass-destructive force, even if the intent is to deter or effectively preclude such wars, has been hotly disputed.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When they have discovered this, no dangers can deter them from attempting to slake their thirst.
At the first sign of it he was admonished with a vigor to deter his comrades.
That will not deter me, for the less material I become the better it will be.
The admiration of Nonconformists did not deter Churchmen and Cavaliers from extolling it.
If an unbeliever should see his way to gain by falsehood or licit fraud, what should deter him?
I do not imagine that the following legend will deter you from your search.
Schrecklichkeit was to deter the contemptible Belgian Army from spoiling a mighty German success.
Yes, it may deter time-wasters, but it may also deter those in genuine need and add to what is inevitably a daily struggle.
The danger of such a correspondence should alone deter any prudent female from its indulgence.
Does not your Eminence fear that the punishment inflicted upon Ravaillac may deter anyone who might entertain the idea of imitating him?
Denisov had two hundred, and Dolokhov might have as many more, but the disparity of numbers did not deter Denisov.
In an age when the least drop of rain will deter would-be worshippers, the problems facing Ezra put us to shame.
Yet you see this did not deter her from entrusting her fortune to you.
The ganger's advice did not deter or frighten him in the least.
But the sight, though it awes us, does not depress us or deter us.
Krull and her co-authors found that reporting incentives deter repatriations.
After decades of surrendering to popular demand, a new trend of working to deter student appeal for fried, convenient, and altogether innutritious foods has emerged.
A DASH OF LIME wash, slaked lime and chalk water solutions were once applied to barns and fences to deter insects and protect against the elements.
His pride, in that direction, may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must only deter him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered by.
There were three policemen too, one of whom was mounted, doing their best, under instructions from Stent, to keep the people back and deter them from approaching the cylinder.
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