Sentences with phrase «more of a deterrent»

Remember though that these locks are more of a deterrent.

«You'd think that an orange jumpsuit would be more of a deterrent than losing your pension, but that turns out not be the case,» said Horner.

The third view that has held back reform is the one that says that prisons are too soft — that they're a holiday camp, and we should make them harsher to provide more of a deterrent.

If you look at the distance some of these students have to travel to reach proficiency, the requirement for them to get there in just one year is more of a deterrent to effort than an inspiration.

These are more of a deterrent.

«If we had never created the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the private market would be charging much higher premiums and it would be much more of a deterrent for people living in these places,» says Eileen Fretz, director of flood management at the non-profit, American Rivers.

as in «everyone / everybody knows», and in my mind nobody that is more of a deterrent to success.

The point of this policy is more of a deterrent to lazy agents then a cash grab.

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Williams said it would make more sense to him if cryptocurrencies were treated as currencies, and the designation as property is «almost a deterrent in [the] pursuit of mainstream adoption.»

The deterrent effect of the available monetary sanctions under agent liability probably exceeds the deterrent effect of enterprise liability because a civil judgment against an agent hurts his reputation more than does a sanction imposed by the firm in private.

Again, I was no more claiming the belief of theists as a solid deterrent than humanists have a deterrent for homicide and other horrific acts.

On the other hand, it must be reiterated that the Old Testament canon reflects the full range of the life of that people; that the spirit of Esther was provoked in their history, again and again; that Jews have known in their long history one Haman after another (the most recent conspicuous Haman being Adolph Hitler); and that if Esther isn't history or theology in any direct sense, it nevertheless informs us more richly of the life of man and points up one of the universal deterrents to the exercise of the love of God.

Guns are very effective deterrents, and given that 99.9996 % of gun owners don't go out and kill anyone with guns (that's, 35000 murders (assuming one murder per gun owner, which is a generous number, divided by 100m gun owners, which own about 270m guns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancer).

A number of reasons have been advanced to justify the introduction of criminal sanctions for this type of conduct, the most common of which are that it would bring Australia in line with other competition regimes and that criminal sanctions are more likely to provide an effective deterrent.

The actual loss of a first - round pick would have made much more sense, though, both as a deterrent and as a punishment for a scouting director having more resources for the 2015 draft than the other 29 scouting directors.

All those things being said raising twins has been very challenging at times which is honestly my biggest deterrent of having more, I also fear I will have twins again and sometimes wonder if I could do this all over again but I can't brush off that urge.

There are also more people riding their bicycles around Wicker Park than in any other part of town; insane windchills and plunging temperatures are hardly deterrents for those bent on taking in the sights and sounds of the domain.

overall, Iran's actions question the deterrent value of nuclear capabilities — if anything, it makes others that much more desperate to join the club.

Rawlings also joining in condemning the situation said: «While this frightening experience may no doubt serve as a deterrent to the use of Libya as a gateway to Europe, we must still add our voices to the call to our Libyan brothers to show a little more compassion to our vulnerable black African brothers and sisters.»

More than thirty years after Abrams» testimony, State Board of Elections Co-Chair Doug Kellner also endorsed the deterrent principle as the reason that so few of New York's voting law proposals have been rejected.

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.

«Nicola Sturgeon has offered to make Ed Miliband prime minister if he meets her shopping list of more debt, unlimited welfare and junking our nuclear deterrent.

This power of exposure is a far more effective deterrent in many countries, including our own, than the court systems that deliver judgment and not necessarily justice.

«That the Parliament looks critically at the results of a new poll on support for nuclear weapons in Scotland commissioned by Lord Ashcroft; believes that the result stating that 51 % of Scots want the Trident nuclear deterrent to be replaced is misguidedly being used to suggest that a majority of Scots support keeping nuclear weapons in Scotland; understands that the results of this poll were intended to challenge the findings of a recent poll commissioned by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that showed a decisive 75 % majority of the Scottish public is against both the cost and the reasoning behind the UK Government's intention to keep all of its nuclear weapons stationed in Scotland; understands that, while Lord Ashcroft conducted the poll to supposedly show that «more than half of Scots are in favour of nuclear weapons», the poll showed that only 37 % of Scots believe so in principle, compared with 48 % who do not; questions the integrity of a poll that, it understands, was privately paid for by a wealthy Tory backer; considers that Lord Ashcroft is spinning the results, and believes that he should stop doing so and accept what it considers the fact proven time and again that Scots want rid of nuclear weapons.»

He also promised a more robust criminal deterrent against tax evasion by increasing the number of criminal prosecutions by Revenue and Customs fivefold.

And with Scottish independence looking more achievable than ever — with all its implications for the UK's submarine base in Faslane — the very future of the deterrent could even be in doubt.

So far, the Senate and Assembly haven't even been able to agree to pass the same bill that would strip state pensions from New York state workers convicted of crimes related to their public duties, a measure that Horner said would probably be more symbolic than an actual deterrent.

Price is one of the biggest deterrents to smoking — the higher the price of a pack, more people will quit.

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Fear of eternal damnation in hell could act as a deterrent, but belief in a forgiving god may make crime more tempting

According to our data, more and more college - aged Millennials are downloading dating apps, and the stigma of finding love online — long a deterrent — has mostly vanished.

More importantly, as Linda Raffaele Mendez and Howard Knoff of the University of South Florida have noted in a 2003 study, the use of out - of - school suspensions has little value as a deterrent against violence in schools.

Despite repeated calls for educators to get more instructional mileage out of the assessment data they have at hand, two deterrents typically stand in the way of most educators» effective use of test data.

A prominent academic think tank is questioning whether three key federal compliance rules - supplement - not - supplant, comparability and maintenance of effort - pose more of a barrier to school innovation than a deterrent to scofflaw administrators.

Some of the key safety features that you will find in that model are features like the Theft Deterrent System, high - strength steel body, ABS, Electronic Stability control and more.

We used it more for setting alarms and timers and doing searches, but we found the lack of always - on listening (in the style of the Amazon Echo or Dot speakers) was a deterrent to using the built - in Alexa all that often.

Personally, I believe that DRM is more of a pain for people who buy your book legally than it is a deterrent for people who want to obtain your book illegally.

Most publishers don't realize it, but the fact that a reader's Kindle files are buried in their app is more of a file - sharing deterrent than DRM itself.

No more need to deal with the insulated world of the LCBS, which is often a huge deterrent to new readers.

The substantial risk from these interrelated forces — drawdowns and the crowded trade — act as a very practical and meaningful deterrent to more widespread adoption of a momentum investing strategy, even though it has been proven to be robustly profitable.

The act of entering lower numbers each time you pay down a debt — and watching the list dwindle as you pay things off — will give you a boost and serve as a deterrent to spending more.

Please realize, however, that successful treatment for destructive chewing will require more than just the use of deterrents.

Ideally, he will have learned the connection between the taste and the odor of the deterrent, and he'll be more likely to avoid chewing items that smell like it.

According to the manufacturer, the effectiveness of Liquid Fence all natural cat repellent will last «a week or more and continue to act as a training deterrent for pets and strays as long as it is present.»

«Adult stray dogs were responsible for a large proportion (48 percent) of incoming dogs at CCSPCA suggesting that more effective deterrents to dogs running at large could substantially reduce the seasonal burden on this shelter.»

Aside from providing more stimulation, I would recommend coating the wall with a chewing deterrent such as Bitter Apple, which most dogs find unappealing, and also completely ignoring the behavior for a week or so to see if he will stop naturally without the encouragement of it attracting your attention.

SharkSafe was allegedly tested for a year in the Kwa Zulu - Natal (a.k.a. «shark alley» of Cape Town), as well as in Australian waters where 460 sharks, birds and other marine life die yearly in more lethal, physical shark deterrent systems.

The annual fee for the Premier is $ 30 more than the Plus but you get 3,000 additional Rapid Rewards each anniversary which provide you with more more than $ 30 worth of Southwest travel, so paying the higher annual fee should not be a major deterrent for many people.

It's actually less of a pre order DLC and more of a pre owned resale deterrent.

But does that amount to much more than ticking a number of boxes, leaving outstanding the very important questions that criminologists and therefore policy - makers should be interested to pursue — is an aimed - for deterrent effect a convincing justification (deterrence at any cost?)