"adequate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- However, the new aircraft and new enhancements are not only required for their nuclear role but are also vital to maintaining an adequate conventional deterrent.
- Force and punishment are not adequate deterrents.
- We should first decide, in view of likely arms control agreements, what number and type of nuclear weapons represent an adequate deterrent.
- "By allowing the use of armed guards in a structured, legal framework we can move to a system where ship owners can provide an adequate deterrent against this scourge on the maritime industry."
- An adequate nuclear deterrent can be achieved at a fraction of the cost of our current program, but not if we insist upon pursuing the "Star Wars" course.
- To the Editor: Anthony Lewis (column, Sept. 5) is right: "force and punishment are not adequate deterrents" to terrorism.
- The Home Secretary and the Commissioner assumed that the threat of dismissal from the force and loss of pension rights was an adequate deterrent.
- In 1964, it was argued that we could not provide an adequate deterrent without five boats, but we took the decision to proceed with only four and we carried it through.
- It is an adequate deterrent, without being so severe as to become counter-productive.
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