(v. t.) To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lawmakers across the globe are beginning to recognize the need to deter this destructive conduct.
(2) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(3) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
(4) Over the next few days, I look forward to reviewing this guilty plea closely to see whether it appropriately holds officers, directors and key executives individually accountable and whether the plea will be sufficient to help deter similar misconduct in the future,” he said.
(5) This could also have the added benefit of deterring aggressive tax planning by multinational corporations looking to avoid reputational risks.
(6) "The extraordinarily long lines deterred or prevented voters from waiting to vote.
(7) Ed Mead, a director of estate agency Douglas & Gordon, says the recent pace of price rises has been deterring some homeowners from selling up in case they miss out on more growth.
(8) She went on to deliver a stark warning that leaving the single market would deter international investors from Britain and lead major companies to question whether they should relocate to mainland Europe.
(9) You deter poor people and sick people from seeking the healthcare they need.” There is no evidence that charging patients £10 to see a GP would reduce demand for appointments or reduce the number of “worried well” seeking care.
(10) The Canadian troops will join a total of 4,000 soldiers Nato is deploying to the Baltic states and Poland to help deter the Kremlin’s threat after its actions in Crimea and its stoking of military conflict in eastern Ukraine .
(11) Living standards are expected to fall as a result of the vote to quit the EU and foreign companies will be deterred from investing in Britain, according to economists appearing before a parliamentary committee.
(12) Iran's supreme leader, who makes the final decision on all state matters in Iran, said earlier this month that Tehran only agreed to the deal in Geneva to "deter the evil" of the US .
(13) The US secret service allowed an armed man with an arrest record to enter an elevator with president Barack Obama, it was disclosed on Tuesday, hours after officials admitted they missed three chances to deter an intruder who broke into the White House earlier this month.
(14) UUP to leave Northern Ireland’s power-sharing executive Read more The revival of the independent monitoring commission (IMC), which had the task of examining the status of IRA and loyalist paramilitary ceasefires before devolution was restored nearly a decade ago, has been mooted as a way to rebuild the unionist community’s trust in republican goodwill and deter future ceasefire breaches.
(15) Regardless, physicians' diagnostic efforts should not be deterred in such patients.
(16) Council chiefs are being urged to launch an investigation after metal spikes were installed outside a luxury block of London flats to deter homeless people from sleeping in the doorway.
(17) Threats may now come from ideological terrorists unlikely to be deterred by a big missile, but Trident is more flexible than it appears; missiles can be loaded with small warheads enabling precise strikes against installations or terrorist cells within nations – or rogue states.
(18) Sisal eaves curtains deterred mosquitoes from hut entry but did not kill those that had entered.
(19) Downing Street was forced to distance itself from a second Tory peer in a week after Flight warned that plans to remove child benefit from higher-rate taxpayers would deter the middle classes from having children.
(20) • The Department for Education says plans to “change the way the performance tables are calculated” will deter schools from doing this in the future Congratulations to all the students and teachers who picked up their results today – and the best of luck with whatever you hope to do next.
Dieter
Definition:
(n.) One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.
Example Sentences:
(1) With respect to the issue of complexity in perception, the findings clearly contradicted the notion that dieters simply dichotomize food into "good" and "bad" categories.
(2) However, a group of dieters do progress to develop the symptoms and behaviour of eating disorders, so that dieting has been associated with an eight-fold rise in the risk of later eating disorder.
(3) However, Dieter Helm believes these challenges can be overcome with political will.
(4) And the roads are getting very short here.” But Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washington DC-based Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-capital punishment organization, said it was doubtful that Texas would get to a point where a lack of drugs led officials to fully suspend capital punishment.
(5) Of the whole population, 18.1% had spent more than half the time dieting (chronic dieters), 45.2% had dieted 50% of the time or less (periodic dieters), and 36.7% had not dieted during that period (nondieters).
(6) As compared with mean changes in controls, exercisers and dieters each decreased HDL3b and increased HDL2b.
(7) The types were labeled: "finicky eaters," "health-conscious dieters," "diverse diners," and "high-calorie traditionalists."
(8) One combination in the protocol – midazolam, hydromorphone and potassium chloride – is an experimental three-drug method never used in a United States execution, said Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington DC.
(9) Professor Dieter Helm, an energy expert at Oxford University, said: "In the US, shale gas didn't exist in 2004.
(10) I think it is one of the most egregious examples of the problems of having the death penalty that I have seen in 20 years in the field,” said Dieter.
(11) In this report from a recent meeting, Johannes Gerdes and Hans-Dieter Flad describe these studies in the context of a growing awareness of the morphological, phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of the cells.
(12) A study of unsuccessful dieters focused on a group of 50 obese subjects who had previously joined a slimming organisation, but who had dropped out.
(13) In Little Dieter Needs to Fly and its feature-film remake Rescue Dawn (2006), he uses the same slow-motion footage of American bombers dropping napalm on to the Vietnamese countryside.
(14) According to Dieter Rucht of the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin: "This is driving people to the barricades who don't normally go out on to the streets."
(15) This, though, turned out to be only the beginning, and the latest development in the unravelling of the Murdoch myth is like watching a dieter who has eaten one cupcake decide to go the whole hog and snarffle down the whole box.
(16) Anorectics, being "successful" dieters, lose a significant amount of weight; whereas bulimics alternate between binges and purges.
(17) The observation that merely smelling a "preload" is sufficient to produce "counterregulation" in dieters but not in nondieters challenges the explanatory power of the widely held cognitive explanation of experimental counterregulation in preloaded dieters.
(18) The hypothesis that repeat dieters would evidence more family dysfunction relative to the nondieters was not supported.
(19) The fasting state induced in the dieting subjects was comparable to that of eating disorder patients, since the dieters showed a reduction of the body mass index, a decrease in triiodothyronine and an increase in beta-hydroxybutyric acid plasma levels.
(20) The Situation-Based Dieting Self-Efficacy Scale (SDS) measures dieters' beliefs in their abilities to adhere to a diet in eating situations.