You have to find a credible person...

And deterrence theory is a very simple theory of human behavior

Now, one way of dealing with this problem is by deterrence.

And indeed the news which had a lot of deterrence, came to them.

It's, How can we give credible hope to that billion people?

And there has already come to them of information that in which there is deterrence

I think it's perfectly credible it could deliver 20 watts per square meter.

to help create the social world and find a credible place in it.

Rather, there is a mutual, effective mutual deterrence that exists, that has resulted in an ongoing stalemate.

liable to having its bluff called, and therefore can only work if it's credible.

All I need to know is if this Mars story is credible or not.

Compassion, because a billion people are living in societies that have not offered credible hope.

How much are we putting into energy behavior change in a credible, systematic, testing way?

And as you can imagine, they aren't the most credible assumptions of the value of this.

It removes the need for a hair trigger for retaliation to make your deterrent threat credible.

Twitter lists, and lists of good sources, people we could establish were credible, were really important.

The most credible hypothesis is the one that limits the number of elements in the domain T.

Soviet land powers, says the General, the problem of deterrence becomes impossible, even with our ( tires screech ) great nuclear delivery capability.

I will punish him with a severe punishment, or I will behead him, unless he brings me a credible excuse.

So how does a leader stay credible and legitimate when they haven't done what the people you're leading are doing?

We wanted people to understand what we are doing is still credible and you could take it anyplace in the world.

To make it credible, you must avenge all insults and settle all scores, which leads to the cycles of bloody vendetta.

For the first time in decades, Tunisians, Egyptians, and Libyans voted for new leaders in elections that were credible, competitive, and fair.

And my mother's Vietnamese was so bad that to make our story more credible, she'd given all the boys and girls new Vietnamese names.

They also totally get the idea that in some instances they can make more credible promises to long term investors the kind of investors who will come build the port, build the roads, in a new city they can make more credible promises if they do it along with a partner nation.

This is a graph from a paper by Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini, who set out to test, at the beginning of this decade, what they called deterrence theory.

And at the heart of that economics, we're placing a more credible, more robust, and more realistic vision of what it means to be human.

But what was credible, what is biological and scientific fact, is that we all stem from Africa in fact, from a woman called Mitochondrial Eve who lived 160,000 years ago.

And even though I don't think Winston Churchill invented it, in the course of World War II the Germans tried to associate this quote with him to make him less credible.

It would be easier to understand the Obama administration's posture of supposedly being for deterrence if this was an administration that, for instance, prosecuted arguably the biggest economic crime that this country has seen in the last hundred years.

But, to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that is desecrated, or churches that are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied.

Well, because I think they wanted to make an example out of Aaron, and they said they wanted the reason, why they wouldn't move on requiring a felony conviction and jail time, was that they wanted to use this case as a case for deterrence.

At a time when the Islamic Republic has failed in its economic and political promises to the Iranian people, the regime s most glaring weakness may prove to be the absence of a credible religious authority that can justify its shortcomings.

They're also undertaking a study to look at all of their supplies of palm oil to see if they could be certified and what they would need to change in order to become third party certified under a credible certification program.

Sometimes you come across a piece of content that is so compelling, you want to use it, you're dying to use it, but you're not 100 percent sure if you can because you don't know if the source is credible.

When you start deploying the non controversial idea of deterrence only selectively you stop making a dispassionate analysis of law breaking and you started deciding to deploy law enforcement resources specifically on the basis of political ideology, and that's not just undemocratic, it's supposed to be un American.

However, if we'd had this talk 60 years ago, we would have seen how the emergence of new aircraft and tank technologies, which give the advantage to the attacker, make the Blitzkrieg doctrine very credible and thus create the possibility of war in Europe.

Well, you know, there's abundant epidemiological evidence, and I think in the information age, it doesn't take long to go to a credible source like PubMed, the National Library of Medicine, to look for epidemiological studies for cancer risk reduction based on diet and based on common medications.

But chemical weapons were still used by the Assad regime. However, over the last few days we've seen some encouraging signs in part because of the credible threat of U.S. military action as well as constructive talks that I had with President Putin. The Russian government has indicated a willingness to join with the international community in pushing Assad to give up his chemical weapons.