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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey
Best
Racism
Sexism
Deterrent
Excellence
Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.
Greg Boyle
Political
Poverty
Other
Our
Border
Thousands
Torture
Abject
Deterrent
Instability
Push
Abuse
Force
Equals
Conditions
Migration
Across
Imaginable
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey
Life
Best
Racism
My Life
Believe
Sexism
Deterrent
Excellence
Operate
How
Raised
Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget.
Mike Quigley
Pressure
Savings
Back
Easing
Scaling
Would
Deterrent
Generating
Maintain
Budget
Robust
Eight
While
Fleet
Sea
Billions
Navy
The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you're telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre.
Ari Aster
You
Seen
Beauty
Whatever
Virtue
Telling
Find
Horror
Deterrent
Demands
Catharsis
Genre
Mostly
Another
Becomes
Audiences
Smuggle
May
Stories
Story
Certain
Suddenly
Harder
Need
The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.
Arleigh Burke
War
Man
Mind
Deterrent
Major
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Our
Weapons
Purely
Deterrent
Adventure
Adversary
Against
Meant
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
A 24-hour police surveillance system will act as a deterrent for anti-social elements.
Atishi
Police
Will
System
Deterrent
Surveillance
Act
Elements
There is no doubt Assad deserves every missile we fire at him, but there's one big problem with air strikes - there is absolutely no proof it has any deterrent effect on Assad. To the contrary, history tells us these strikes will most likely quicken the pace of his assault on his own people.
Chris Murphy
History
People
Problem
Will
Fire
Big
Own
Doubt
Every
Air
Strikes
Tells
No Doubt
Proof
Deterrent
Absolutely
Missile
Most
Likely
Him
His
Effect
Contrary
Big Problem
Any
Pace
Us
Assault
Deserves
My biggest deterrent to getting the workout I need is just that my days are so full and so busy.
Christie Brinkley
Busy
Deterrent
Days
Getting
Just
Biggest
Full
Workout
Need
If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.
David Davis
Evil
Somebody
Out
Carry
Case
Deterrent
Attack
Could
Obviously
Effect
Then
Plans
Series
When the U.S. claims the right to invade any country unilaterally and then defines a country like Iran or North Korea as 'evil,' then it is a rational response for these countries to develop nuclear weapons as the only military deterrent to invasion. We create what we most fear.
Dean Ornish
Fear
Evil
Country
Military
Defines
Claims
Response
Weapons
Invade
Invasion
Only
Deterrent
Rational
Develop
Countries
Like
Most
Korea
Iran
North
North Korea
Any
Then
Create
Nuclear
Right
Nuclear Weapons
We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life.
Des Browne
Life
Future
World
Decision
My Life
Live
Think
Future Generations
Weapons
Uncertain
Uncertainty
Deterrent
Environment
Generations
Almost
Almost All
Make
Provided
Effect
Itself
Very
Which
Us
Should
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.
Frank Gaffney
You
Business
President
Assuring
Our
President Reagan
Tell
Weapons
Having
Deterrent
Him
Policy
Reagan
Effectiveness
Committed
Worked
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
Jack Keane
Military
Only
Deterrent
Also
Becomes
Intent
Then
Use
Therefore
Credible
Needed
If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.
Jed S. Rakoff
Best
You
Crime
Other
Compliance
Deterrent
Vastly
Put
Executive
Him
Effect
Send
Senior
Committing
Jail
Place
CEO
View
Even
Her
Program
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.
Matt Taibbi
Time
You
People
Crime
Think
Crimes
Criminal
Corporate
Penalty
Out
Kind
Some
Fines
About
Pocket
Deterrent
Individual
Kitty
Do You Know
Come
Know
Makes
Effective
Committing
Jail
Next
Next Time
Twice
Actually
What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.
Michael Wilbon
Will
Seen
Unless
Penalty
Some
Something
Deterrent
Absolute
Performance
Indulge
Available
Enhance
Season
Players
Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Needs
World
Humiliation
Sense
Claims
System
Arab
Arab World
Weapons
Threat
Deterrent
Feels
Return
Israel
Existence
Impotence
Any
Against
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
India, being a sovereign state, has the right to decide what kind of nuclear deterrent New Delhi needs in respect of international security perception.
Rajnath Singh
Needs
Respect
Perception
State
Kind
Security
India
Delhi
Deterrent
New
Sovereign
Sovereign State
Being
Decide
International
Nuclear
Right
A nuclear program has arguably worked as a deterrent for North Korea and other states - would Moammar Gadhafi have been deposed and summarily killed if Libya had had nuclear weapons? Iranians might not think so.
Richard Engel
Think
Other
States
Libya
Would
Weapons
Deterrent
Arguably
Had
Korea
Been
Iranians
North
North Korea
Might
Worked
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Program
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
Robert McNamara
Fashion
Action
Incredible
Out
Deterrent
Cannot
Credible
My height was not a deterrent, and it did not make me the person I am. It was like my long brown hair or my brown eyes - a physical characteristic that differentiated me from quite a percentage of the population.
Sinead Burke
Me
Eyes
Long
Hair
Characteristic
Physical
Brown
Percentage
Deterrent
Like
Make
Am
Person
Did
Quite
Height
Population
Differentiated
The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.
Stephen M. Walt
Kind
Threatened
Some
Deterrent
Fact
Pursue
Feel
Countries
Makes
Precisely
Want
Nuclear
Thing
It's Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.
Vladimir Putin
People
Some People
Own
Our
Would
Some
Russia
Deterrent
Like
Policy
Foreign
Still
Foreign Policy
Get
Afraid
Whether
Rid
Nuclear
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