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.