"power" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They are taught to balance an arrest's deterrent power against the possibility that it might only turn an abusive husband more abusive.
- Perhaps you don't understand we have lost a good percentage of our strategic nuclear deterrent power.
- I asked him if maybe people underestimated the deterrent power that the fear of lifetime confinement without parole might have.
- Starting with the first gulf war, Israel went from being the deterrent power in the neighborhood to being the chronic frightened patsy.
- Now, the erosion of Israel's deterrent power is on everybody's mind.
- This is important in deterrence theory because a threat must be credible to have deterrent power.
- For example, a 15-year prison sentence had less than 10 percent more deterrent power than a five-year sentence.
- The Alliance has decided to retain nuclear weapons as the ultimate deterrent power.
- Some of that deterrent power no doubt still holds.
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