deterrent

How To Use deterrent In A Sentence

• The fact that many crustaceans, being omnivorous, may act as scavengers and eat the corpses of fellow aquatic creatures need not be a deterrent.
• The punishment is so severe that it is a deterrent for the criminal to commit the crime.
• Natural deterrents against sea erosion (mangroves, sandbanks, reefs etc.) have been depleted to such extents that their revival cannot be considered a viable plan to counter sea disasters.
• The concentration of wealth and power is a great deterrent to democracy.
• In addition, divided catalogues or separate classified catalogues could also have acted as a deterrent to subject searching.
• While persuading believers to put less emphasis on ritual, he must also set up a real deterrent - courts with real teeth that do not kowtow to rich thieves.
• We want deterrent sentences to prevent crime as the current laws are not stringent enough.
• The nuclear deterrent will stay, but there is still pressure to do it on the cheap. Times, Sunday Times
• They seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrent.
• But if some receive swift and exemplary punishment it will serve as a deterrent to the rest. Times, Sunday Times