Crossword-Solution: DETERRENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deterrence | n. | That which deters; a deterrent; a hindrance. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “DETERRENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Restraining order, say | 1 answer |
| Hoped-for effect of having a big military | 1 answer |
| nuclear weapons | 3 answers |
| dissuasion | 5 answers |
| Nuclear weapon | 5 answers |
| disincentive | 7 answers |
| COLD water | 10 answers |
| expostulation | 16 answers |
| Damper | 17 answers |
| defeatism | 20 answers |
| danger-signal | 23 answers |
| cowardice | 25 answers |
| Danger signal | 26 answers |
| prevention | 54 answers |
| Panic | 61 answers |
| Fright | 61 answers |
| FEAR_ | 67 answers |
| Threat | 70 answers |
| horror | 72 answers |
| terror | 75 answers |
| Weapon. | 98 answers |
| Check | 138 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DETERRENCE (5)
The designers correctly assumed that no one was looking for them, and they could enter systems without any deterrence.
These personal experiences are substantiated by extensive data giving overwhelming proof of the utter futility of prisons as a means of deterrence or reform.
The Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 amended section 504(c), in paragraph (1), by substituting "$750" for "$500" and "$30,000" for "$20,000" and, in paragraph (2), by substituting "$150,000" for "$100,000." Pub.
Our great moral and material commitments to collective security, deterrence of force, international law, negotiations that lead to self-enforcing agreements, and the economic interdependence of free nations should remain the cornerstone of a foreign policy that will ultimately bring permanent peace with justice in freedom to all mankind.
And once they recognize our unshakable resolve to maintain adequate deterrence, they will have every reason to join us in the search for greater security and major arms reductions.
Quotes with DETERRENCE (3)
Terror is an artery. Running unfailing channels of bloodied thoroughfares by dint of the wilds beyond our knowing. Fluctuations and murmurs are audible within the splintered leeway of our preserve as a consequence of interstices modeled in such brutality. This appended artery offers no direction; idle and at times desultory. Bloodstained tracks and avenues guide casualties. Terror, like death, is not complicated, nor is it simple. It is but routine — natural. To call it other…
War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War--and it's consumption of life--has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control…everything is monitored and kept un…
War provides some people with a sense of purposefulness. The drumbeat of war quickens the pulse of neighbors, relatives, tribes, and nations. Hostile nations amass weapons of destruction claiming that they seek peace through deterrence. When war comes, advocates of arms galvanize the citizenry by proclaiming the inevitability of conflict. Each side’s propaganda machine cast the campaign of present war as the next Great War. Generals brashly promote armed conflict as the war t…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1997–2016).