ultimate deterrent

collocation in English

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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us
/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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deterrent
noun[C]
uk
/dɪˈter.ənt/us
/dɪˈter.ənt/
something that deters people from ...
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(Definition ofultimateanddeterrentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Using theultimatedeterrentand sending a parent to prison will further fracture dysfunctional families.
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It is surely better to have anultimatedeterrentrather than a temporary stop-gap.
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They will be theultimatedeterrentand not merely naval vessels.
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Therefore, the public at large and the police want the return of theultimatedeterrent.
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It is no good saying, as one can legitimately say, that the courts are only a veryultimatedeterrent.
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However hard we work for peace in the years ahead there must be a period during which we shall have to maintain theultimatedeterrent.
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If penal sanctions against individuals were right as anultimatedeterrentin 1969, why are much milder civil sanctions wrong now?
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What significance will it have other than the threat of using theultimatedeterrentof not approving the mayor's budget?
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There are those who take the view that for many, prison is theultimatedeterrent.
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Until now, that has really meant the use of theultimatedeterrent.
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I will not embark upon a discussion of the merits of theultimatedeterrent.
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If we do not have thatultimatedeterrent, we have the risk of a conventional operation of some sort starting.
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If we were faced with a choice of this kind, we would still come back to theultimatedeterrent.
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I suggest that for this most heinous of crimes—the wilful taking of someone else's life—the death penalty should be theultimatedeterrent.
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It is retribution—perhaps it is revenge—but, my goodness, it is theultimatedeterrent.
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That seems to me to be theultimatedeterrent, a deterrent which has never existed before.
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I certainly do not see him as theultimatedeterrent.
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That is theultimatedeterrentto companies becoming trade unions.
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If our forces do not arrive in time, we shall have no alternative but to fall back on what is theultimatedeterrent.
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We are told now that there are three candidates for the rôle of preventing theultimatedeterrentfrom becoming less credible.
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