(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.
Preclude
Definition:
(v.) To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.
(v.) To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the variation in samples, even from among individual animals that had survived challenge, was so great that it precludes the use of the macrophage migration technique as a routine standard assay procedure for immunity.
(2) However, hemodynamic effects of the compound, suggesting an oxygen sparing action, did not preclude the antifibrillatory effectiveness.
(3) Since group therapy and sensory stimulation over a relatively short period can result in clinical and testable improvement, the diagnosis of "chronic brain syndrome" in the elderly should not be allowed to preclude the provision of appropriate psychiatric therapy.
(4) Positive biopsy findings may preclude transplantation.
(5) These findings may preclude the use of controlled studies on early synovectomy using the non-operated hand as a control in a long-term assessment of X-ray progression.
(6) Immunoassay of semen samples for CTX were not diagnostic, but the sensitivity and timing of the test employed may have precluded detection of small quantities of the toxin.
(7) These were all mild or moderate in severity and did not preclude continued administration of the study drug.
(8) Moreover, reexamination of the original X-ray maps reported in 1968 and thought to preclude a Tyr-248-Zn interaction now leads to the conclusion that in up to 25 per cent of the molecules in the crystals ttyr-248 interacts with the active site zinc atom (W.D.
(9) Nowadays, conventional cholecystectomy remains indicated when laparoscopy is contra-indicated, notably in cases with tight peritoneal adhesions precluding laparoscopy.
(10) However, this does not preclude the need for appropriately ex vivo-handled specimens for monitoring isepamicin concentrations in plasma to ensure therapeutic efficacy and prevent toxicity.
(11) The striatal dopaminergic input was extensively destroyed beforehand to preclude the possibility of reinnervation of the striatum by endogenous dopaminergic neurons.
(12) Rapidly progressive autolytic changes preclude the meaningful morphological assessment of hypoxic change at the ultrastructural level.
(13) The lack of data on the fertilizing capacity of sperm in GIFT procedures in cases of male infertility is a real disadvantage and currently precludes the management of severe male infertility with this method.
(14) Superficial muscle necrosis is a complication of this operation but has not precluded its usefulness.
(15) In vitro attempts to demonstrate local activated macrophages in the foot pads of M. leprae infected mice failed, but, because of the technical problems encountered, do not preclude their presence.
(16) In some cases with relatively minimal vascular changes the prognosis was poor, whereas heavy cellular infiltreate without vessel damage did not necessarily preclude functional recovery.
(17) In aortic stenosis: a) severe ventricular dysfunction does not preclude the surgical treatment; b) the actuarial analysis suggests that EF less than 50% determines worse prognosis and always occurs with decreased CO; c) the excellent evolution of the asymptomatic patients does not generalize the surgical treatment in this phase; d) the incidence of the sudden death was not high after the surgical treatment; e) patients with pre-operative left ventricular dysfunction had greater mortality due to heart failure, than patients with normal left ventricular function; f) despite of the morbid events our results confirm the real benefit of the surgical treatment in the aortic stenosis.
(18) Receptor cells with cilia were observed, and although the olfactory system undergoes further differentiation during pouch life and although the olfactory epithelium and bulb of the newborn differs from that of the adult, these facts do not preclude the ability of the newborn to detect smell.
(19) The Likud, led by Binyamin Netanyahu, is committed to permanent Israeli control over most of the West Bank, and this precludes the possibility of peace with the Palestinians.
(20) PAC was administered monthly until disease progression or toxicity precluded additional therapy.