deterrable

Burning with the conviction that they have God on their side, members of al-Qaeda are generally not deterrable in the conventional sense, and their very relative weakness makes them far more willing to take on the United States than conventional state antagonists, who have good reason to fear American retaliation.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

The plain if deeply unpleasant fact is that history's hard men are not deterrable by the flimsy threat of eventual prosecution.

A United Nations Court For Gadhafi? John Bolton 2011

Burning with the conviction that they have God on their side, members of al-Qaeda are generally not deterrable in the conventional sense, and their very relative weakness makes them far more willing to take on the United States than conventional state antagonists, who have good reason to fear American retaliation.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Burning with the conviction that they have God on their side, members of al-Qaeda are generally not deterrable in the conventional sense, and their very relative weakness makes them far more willing to take on the United States than conventional state antagonists, who have good reason to fear American retaliation.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Burning with the conviction that they have God on their side, members of al-Qaeda are generally not deterrable in the conventional sense, and their very relative weakness makes them far more willing to take on the United States than conventional state antagonists, who have good reason to fear American retaliation.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

It is a theory that some people have been looking at because there is a fear that if Iran, which I hope we can prevent, becoming a nuclear power, but if they were to become one, some people worry that they are not deterrable, that they somehow have a different mindset and a worldview that might very well lead the leadership to be willing to become martyrs.

Clinton: We Will "Totally Obliterate" Iran If They Attack Israel 2009

It is a theory that some people have been looking at because there is a fear that if Iran, which I hope we can prevent, becoming a nuclear power, but if they were to become one, some people worry that they are not deterrable, that they somehow have a different mindset and a worldview that might very well lead the leadership to be willing to become martyrs.

Clinton: We Will "Totally Obliterate" Iran If They Attack Israel 2009

Yet it remains unlikely that Islamist religious extremists who embrace suicide bombing are deterrable.

David Makovsky: Excerpt from Myths, Illusions and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East 2009

"It is a theory that some people have been looking at because there is a fear that if Iran, which I hope we can prevent, becoming a nuclear power, but if they were to become one some people worry that they are not deterrable, that they somehow have a different mindset and a worldview that might very well lead the leadership to be willing to become martyrs."

Clinton: We Will "Totally Obliterate" Iran If They Attack Israel 2009

It is a theory that some people have been looking at because there is a fear that if Iran, which I hope we can prevent, becoming a nuclear power, but if they were to become one some people worry that they are not deterrable, that they somehow have a different mindset and a worldview that might very well lead the leadership to be willing to become martyrs.

Clinton: We Will "Totally Obliterate" Iran If They Attack Israel 2009