Sentences with phrase «lost as a deterrent»

Consider the fees lost as a deterrent of future patent trolls (or rather their dumb lawyers taking cases against twitter on contingency fee).

Not exact matches

Any hypothetical military engagement where a nuclear armed country were to be in danger of being completely overrun would change the calculation on whether they would be willing to use nuclear weapons, but Russia probably would not, for example, use their nuclear weapons as a deterrent against attacks against their conventional troops in Ukraine, even if they were in danger of being forced out of Ukraine completely because the retaliation would cost much more to them than what they would be losing.

The bank typically wants the mortgage debtor to have a significant interest in the house; that's a deterrent to default (the homeowner loses bookoo bux in equity) as well as a hedge against it (yes, the bank can repo the property, sell it, and get their money back).