"deter" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This is their letter, this is what they said: The bill from the Senate side will actually deter their efforts to deal with terrorism.
- It hasn't worked in actually deterring crime, and it won't work for Massachusetts.
- Some lawmakers called the new charter an improvement, but others said it would do little to guarantee a credible inquiry and could actually deter whistle-blowers.
- Our current legal system actually deters some citizens from coming forward and reporting these potential dangers.
- How much crime does it actually deter?
- Several said the group has become less rowdy in the last decade, and a few said that its presence actually deters crime on their block.
- Mr. Rapp said he was "not overly optimistic" that the law would actually deter people from committing serious crimes.
- Longer prison sentences have removed some career criminals from the streets, though the threat of longer sentences may not actually deter crime.
- But 207 marginal spaces, to use the authors' words, are poorly enough designed or maintained that they actually deter the public from using them.
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