| 单词 | deterrent value |
| 释义 | deterrent value When people are released after less than half their sentence, to have any deterrent value a sentence must mean what it says. Times, Sunday Times But a warship would provide 'mostly deterrent value'. Times, Sunday Times An alarm has deterrent value, but essentially it rings when other security has failed. Times, Sunday Times The army largely halted the practice of home demolitions in 2005 after a study found that it had little deterrent value. Times, Sunday Times Indeterminate sentencing robbed punishments of certainty and reduced their deterrent value; discretionary release opened the way to arbitrariness; and 'individuation' was a recipe for unfairness and inequality. The Times Literary Supplement |
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