But he said those thoughts would not deter him from peforming his best and supporting his teammates on the field.

However, the thought of all those stairs deterred her from raiding the kitchen.

"Don't let that thought deter you," he said.

Numerical inferiority would deter the fanatical terrorists no more than the thought of certain death would deter the Japanese kamikaze.

The thought of the freezing wind deterred him.

Time and again, she had wanted to leap from the bed and dash for the telephone; but always the thought of a guard in the other room deterred her.

Niall pointed the blaster at the creature, tempted to destroy it; only the thought of the smell deterred him.

Her oath seemed a thousand leagues and a thousand years distant, and not even the thought of Viviane's anger could have deterred her.

"Precisely this thought deters me," Cugel replied.

If he wondered if they would recognize him as friend, or attack him as foe, the thought did not deter him.