"deter" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Feb. 2009 CBS News - Study shows death penalty deters murder.
- "It has not been shown that the death sentence would be materially more effective to deter or prevent murder than the alternative sentence of life imprisonment would be."
- Holly - in point one you made do you mean "deters murder"?
- Rational opponents rightly point out that no one has yet shown that executions deter murder.
- He went on, "The court's decision will not deter the D.E.A.'s commitment to investigate all those responsible for the kidnap and murder of special agent Enrique Camarena."
- Death penalties don't deter murder.
- The death penalty has nothing to do with deterring murder.
- Later in his career, as a defense lawyer, he opposed capital punishment, saying it did not deter murder.
- But capital punishment doesn't even deter ordinary murder.
- "I think Governor Pataki is sincere when he says that the death penalty deters murder," he said, "but I haven't seen any proof of that yet."
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