What's the difference between deterrence and obviation?

Deterrence


Definition:

  • (n.) That which deters; a deterrent; a hindrance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
  • (2) The US started down this course during the Sony hack last year, and in this case, transparency might be the best deterrent in the future – which, by the way, is something both Snowden and the Snowden-hating national security blog Lawfare argued on Monday.
  • (3) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
  • (4) The end of the cold war and a reshaping of the threats faced by the UK had undermined the logic of nuclear deterrence strategy, he said.
  • (5) Short-range ammunition was developed for use by law enforcement personnel in congested, enclosed areas and primarily as a hijacking deterrent in commercial airliners.
  • (6) Yonhap news agency cited a senior South Korean official as saying the missile, with a range of 800km (500 miles), would act as a “strong deterrent” against provocations from the North.
  • (7) I subscribe to the view that Britain should remain a nuclear power and that our deterrent should continue to be submarine based.
  • (8) Although the panel may have been well intentioned, it was mostly the deterrent parts of the report that were implemented.
  • (9) But it had at its disposal a hefty deterrent: forgery was a capital offence between 1697 and 1832.
  • (10) "There are times when a swingeing sentence can act as a deterrent", as the judge at the trial was grimly to pronounce.
  • (11) Which you would hope would be a deterrent to others not to follow down the same path," the justice minister said.
  • (12) "There has been a ratcheting down of deterrence gestures by the US, and that has helped cool the situation a little," said John Delury, a North Korea analyst at Yonsei University in Seoul.
  • (13) David Spilsbury Birmingham • One view of the future: we are to leave Nato, abandon our nuclear deterrent, cultivate our allotments and become a new potato republic on the northern fringe of Europe.
  • (14) Given China’s apparent desire to overwhelm US missile defences, it is not surprising that multiple warheads – whether independently targeted or not – would become a feature of Chinese deterrence.
  • (15) I share with Jeremy the wish to see a world which is free of nuclear weapons, but I don’t believe for one second that if Britain were to give up its deterrent any other of the nuclear states would give theirs up,” he said “The truth is that we live in a differently dangerous world now and we need a continuous at-sea-deterrent, and we need to do it in the most cost effective way – that is the view the Labour party conference has taken for many years now.” Labour party grandees also made interventions on Sunday that could undermine Corbyn.
  • (16) A unilateral UK move would create even starker problems of domestic and international presentation, particularly if such action were to contrast with continued congressional reluctance to fund modernisation.” It observed that the military chiefs of staff believed the only effective and credible deterrent to Soviet use of chemical weapons was “the ability to retaliate in kind”.
  • (17) Britain's most senior prosecutor has questioned whether heavy sentences given to last summer's rioters worked as an effective deterrence, challenging the received wisdom from senior judges and politicians.
  • (18) It said the policy was rooted in a 1994 Clinton-era Border Patrol strategy called “Prevention Through Deterrence” which sealed off urban entry points and funneled people to wilderness routes risking injury, dehydration, heat stroke, exhaustion and hypothermia .
  • (19) However, whereas CP lowered fasting blood glucose in rats measured over 6 h, N1-ethylchlorpropamide was devoid of hypoglycemic activity, suggesting that the latter might be potentially useful as an alcohol deterrent agent.
  • (20) During the sentencing, the recorder of Chester, Elgan Edwards, praised the swift actions of Cheshire police and said he hoped the sentences would act as a deterrent to others.

Obviation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of obviating, or the state of being obviated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The phenylalanine model allows the rapid assessment of whole body and muscle protein turnover from plasma samples alone, obviating the need for measurement of expired air CO2 production or enrichment.
  • (2) In this series, the association between the anomalous ductal insertion and biliary tract disease cannot be established, since the method of patient selection obviates any epidemiologic consideration.
  • (3) The intracellular localization of tachyzoites facilitated diagnosis by obviating potential confusion of extracellular tachyzoites with cellular debris or platelets.
  • (4) Still, there are some aspects of Palin’s channel to recommend it to the devoted movement conservative that isn’t necessarily already a fan of hers – especially its obviating the need to resort to Palinology.
  • (5) Thorough monitoring during surgery, careful selection of patients, and close communication between the surgeon and anesthesiologist permit safe anesthesia, can decrease operating time, and usually obviate the need for transfusions.
  • (6) Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation (CDI) has been gaining popularity in scoliosis surgery because of their improved rigidity which can obviate the need for a brace in most cases.
  • (7) Postoperative radiotherapy appeared to be effective in obviating local recurrence in patients with adenoid cystic carcinoma of the trachea.
  • (8) Dosage adjustments usually obviate unwanted effects except for paradoxical reactions such as hostility.
  • (9) Using nuclear runoff transcription assays we demonstrated that alpha interferon-mediated induction of transcription of four mRNAs in HeLa monolayer cells needed ongoing protein synthesis and that such a need could be obviated by pretreating the cells with gamma interferon which, by itself, did not induce transcription of these mRNAs.
  • (10) It obviates the need for excision in patients who fulfill the aforementioned criteria.
  • (11) In summary, endoscopic dilatation for postgastroplasty strictures is a useful and effective technique, obviating the need for operative revision in the majority of patients; however, when the stenosis is associated with channel angulation, dilatation is almost uniformly unsuccessful.
  • (12) To obviate this problem, we have covalently attached deferoxamine to high molecular weight carbohydrates such as dextran and hydroxyethyl starch.
  • (13) Serum components inhibit DNA polymerase, thereby obviating direct detection of serum viral DNA sequences by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
  • (14) Sources say Elisabeth, who turned 44 on Wednesday, has no desire to leave Britain and believes her father can carry on for at least another 10 years, obviating any need for a succession decision.
  • (15) Gastric resection may still be unavoidable as a diagnostic procedure in a minority of cases and may represent the primary therapeutic procedure in clinically assessed early-stage and low-risk patients, but it cannot be considered mandatory whenever possible merely for debulking purposes or to obviate possible perforation or hemorrhage.
  • (16) The use of a malleable curved disposable suction cautery for the control of any persistent bleeding at the conclusion of adenoidectomy in over 1000 cases has prevented any primary postoperative hemorrhages from the nasopharynx, and obviated the need for post-nasal packing.
  • (17) These responses can be obviated by intravascular volume expansion.
  • (18) In older patients the finding could be misinterpreted as evidence of extracranial cerebrovascular disease, but clinical considerations should obviate unnecessary neuroradiological diagnostic procedures.
  • (19) Elective caesarean section at 38 weeks' gestation may obviate the problem, since it prevents trauma during vaginal delivery but it will not eliminate neurological sequelae in those infants who have already suffered antenatal intracranial bleeding, an entity now well described in these fetuses.
  • (20) Timely intervention by other diagnostic modalities may obviate the consideration of chemotherapy in cases where there are no liver metastases.

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