Crossword-Solution: DETERRING 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Deterring p. pr. & vb. n. of Deter

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DETERRING (5)

The FRG's legal, social welfare, and economic systems have been extended to the east, but economic restructuring--privatizing industry, establishing clear property rights, clarifying responsibility for environmental clean-up, and removing Communist-era holdovers from management--is proceeding slowly so far, deterring outside investors.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
The deterring effect of the episode of the Coliseum was apparently of long continuance; if Roderick’s nerves had been shaken his hand needed time to recover its steadiness.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Covey, he did not have me taken in hand by the authorities; indeed, why the law of Maryland, which assigns hanging to the slave who resists his master, was not put in force against me; at any rate, why I was not taken up, as is usual in such cases, and publicly whipped, for an example to other slaves, and as a means of deterring me from committing the same offense again.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995
The advocates for this savage law have insisted, that it must strongly operate in deterring idleness and fraud from contracting debts which they were unable to discharge; but experience would dissipate this salutary terror, by proving that no creditor could be found to exact this unprofitable penalty of life or limb.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996
What effect these actions will have in deterring aviators in general from proceeding with their experiments remains to be seen.
Flying Machines W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell 1997

Quotes with DETERRING (3)

In every era, humanity produces demonic individuals and seductive ideas of repression. The task of statesmanship is to prevent their rise to power and sustain an international order capable of deterring them if they do achieve it.
Henry Kissinger
And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.
John Steinbeck Travels with Charley: In Search of America
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Albert Einstein