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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of deter.

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Examples

  • In turn, the United States will be deterred from the use of conventional forces in such a scenario.

    Asia 2010

  • In turn, the United States will be deterred from the use of conventional forces in such a scenario.

    Stromata Blog 2010

  • In turn, the United States will be deterred from the use of conventional forces in such a scenario.

    Stromata Blog: 2010

  • Nor was Palin deterred by the fact she had five kids at home, including an infant with special needs.

    Palin talks about controversies and future with Oprah 2009

  • In turn, the United States will be deterred from the use of conventional forces in such a scenario.

    Air Superiority Lost? 2010

  • As Alfred Nobel finally discerned, people are never deterred from the folly of war by the stark terror of it.

    Ralph J. Bunche - Nobel Lecture 1950

  • They joined up to these Parties at a time when Commnunist Parties held down the whole of Eastern Europe and Russia by brute force AND threatened us with destruction unless we 'deterred' them with nuclear weapons.

    More crap from the 'Independent' 2008

  • They would be "deterred" from ever beginning a nuclear war.

    Secretary of Defense Weinberger's Letter of August 23 Weinberger, Caspar W. 1982

  • (Syria), during which time she was "deterred" from writing her thesis by the Secret Police!!

    TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • They've "deterred" an entire generation of teens, most everybody who's a real music fan, anybody interested in technological innovation, Internet-freedom advocates, public-domain advocates, etc. etc. at nauseum - from ever respecting, trusting, or valuing what they do ever again.

    p2pnet news 2009

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