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The problem with limit pricing as strategic behavior is that once the entrant has entered the market, the quantity used as a threat to deter entry is no longer the incumbent firm's best response.
Some of the smartclocks use front facing cameras to capture employee clock-ins to deter " buddy punching ", a problem usually requiring expensive biometric clocks.
Insurance fraud poses a very significant problem, and governments and other organizations are making efforts to deter such activities.

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" He also said, " I believe that we have the power to deter Iran, should it become nuclear.
To deter any such possibility, he deployed 250, 000 men, including half of MACV's U. S. maneuver battalions, to the I Corps Tactical Zone.
* In the novel That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis, John Wither, one of the main antagonists, appears to use bilocation on two occasions to deter Mark Studdock from defecting from the N. I. C. E.
For this reason, I believe Iran needs to produce nuclear weapons as a defensive mechanism, to deter the U. S. today and the ever-expanding and equally energy-hungry China tomorrow.
Should the court acquit the officer it shall not deter me from repeating the same ceremony on any other officer again and again ... I will insist on every soldier marching through water and I will flog any man attempting to avoid it.
James asserted that hereditary right was superior to statutory provision and as King in Scotland, was powerful enough to deter any rival, reigning as James I of England.
Yes, Gentlemen, I venture to call it a Duty ; ’ tis the Duty of the first and great Command of Nature, and of Nature ’ s God, Increase and multiply: A Duty, from the steady Performance of which nothing has ever been able to deter me ; but for it ’ s Sake, I have hazarded the Loss of the public Esteem, and frequently incurr ’ d public Disgrace and Punishment ; and therefore ought, in my humble Opinion, instead of a Whipping, to have a Statue erected to my Memory.
Its purpose is stated in the first paragraph of the essay: " I shall endeavor to deal with some of the thoughts that may deter modern men from a firm belief in, or a due attention to, the return or Second Coming of the Saviour.
I know it to be preposterously ludicrous, but that does not deter me.

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He expressed this ideology as " every Jew had the right to enter Palestine ; only active retaliation would deter the Arabs and the British ; only Jewish armed force would ensure the Jewish state ".
A boot sector virus dubbed ( c ) Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
From the British point of view, it was regarded as highly desirable to keep Romania and its oil out of German hands ; since Germany had hardly any natural supplies of oil, the ability of the Royal Navy to successfully impose a blockade represented a British trump card both to deter war, and if necessary, win a war.
Ribbentrop hoped that the prospect of facing the Tripartite Pact would deter the United States from supporting Britain, but since the Pact was more or less openly directed against the United States ( the Pact made a point of stressing that the unnamed great power it was directed against was not the Soviet Union ), it had the opposite effect on American public opinion than the one intended.
When demonstrators broke through the windows — which had been covered by plywood by the bar owners to deter the police from raiding the bar — the police inside unholstered their pistols.
Although not intimately involved in the development of strategic nuclear policy as McNamara had been, Laird subscribed to the Nixon administration's program of " Strategic Sufficiency "-that the United States should have the capability to deter nuclear attacks against its home territory and that of its allies by convincing a potential aggressor that he would suffer an unacceptable level of retaliatory damage ; it should also have enough nuclear forces to eliminate possible coercion of its allies.
A further 8. 5 % of Gergel's total figure is attributed to pogroms carried out by men of the Red Army-although these pogroms were not sanctioned by the Red Army leadership, and where Red Army troops had perpetrated pogroms, the Bolshevik high command subsequently disarmed entire regiments and executed individual pogromists to deter further outbreaks.
What the gang did not know was that the syndicate had no intention of paying because they wanted to deter future thefts.
The coin was considered too thin to have an edge inscription like the Five Guineas coin had, so to avoid confusion with gilded half-crown coins the edge was milled to deter clipping or filing ( and to distinguish it from the silver half-crown which had edge lettering ) -- until 1669 the milling was perpendicular to the coin, giving vertical grooves, while from 1671 the milling was diagonal to the coin.
To avoid confusion with gilded silver coins, the edge was milled to deter clipping or filing ( and to distinguish it from the silver half-crown which had edge lettering ).
Early indoor toilets had in fact been known as garderobes because they actually were used to store clothes, as the smell of ammonia was found to deter fleas and moths.
Richard sold Guy the lordship of Cyprus ( where he continued to use a king's title ) to compensate him and deter him from returning to Poitou, where his family had long had a reputation for rebelliousness.
Rommel noted in his diary during an inspection of one area that a division had placed over 300, 000 stakes in the ground to deter airborne landings, and a corps had erected over 900, 000.
Her connections to New York society and the accompanying social pressures to leave the new life she had created for herself did not deter her from embracing her religious vocation and charitable mission.
A later 2010 evaluation of crime in Kings Cross claimed that drug-related crime had decreased at the same rate as the rest of Sydney after a heroin shortage intervened 6 months before the MSIC opened, but Drug Free Australia has asserted that the evaluators failed to make any mention or assessment of the impact of police sniffer dogs introduced 12 months after the MSIC opened to deter drug dealers and users from the back lanes of Kings Cross, which might well be expected to have decreased drug-related crime more than areas of Sydney not policed by sniffer dogs.
This was done by the Union when it was learned that the Confederacy had a similar number of human shields in Charleston to deter Union ships from firing on the city.
This decree was applicable to all estates nationwide, and its real importance was the strong language used to deter further samurai incursions onto the estates, and to defend the interests of the nobles in the face of the samurai incursions that had already taken place.
Eventually, towards the last quarter of 2006, Silverlink hired a private security firm to patrol the station, and also had speakers installed in the ticket hall to deter gangs of youths from loitering.
Bohemund's knights had quickly mounted but their sporadic counterattacks were unable to deter the Turks.
Two radio stations were destroyed which, up to this point, had continued to broadcast normally and even falsely reported fog to deter any German observation planes.
He hoped that the film would deter others from the life of crime he had chosen.

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The small community looked after maintenance of the lighthouse and helped to deter smugglers who used the islets as a refuge.

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The high wall with watch-towers surrounding the main part of the cemetery was built to deter bodysnatchers, who were active in Dublin in the 18th and early 19th century.
Lack of documentation would deter settlement until 1787, when the first permanent houses were built.
The Pilkingtons built lodges around their private estate to deter poaches.
The British built a number of other canals ( Grenville, Chute-à-Blondeau and Carillon Canals, all along the Ottawa River ) as well as a number of forts ( Citadel Hill, La Citadelle, and Fort Henry ) to impede and deter any future American invasions of Canadian territory.
* The section from Leicester to Northampton is now designated the A5199 having been down-classified when the A14 was built to deter drivers from using this stretch assuming it was a higher grade than it is.
They returned with sketches of gun emplacements and locations, information about a log wall built to deter landings, and other vital intelligence.
The Venetian fortress here was built in 1371 to deter pirates and unsuccessfully, to control Sfakiá.
Maunsell sea forts, built in the Thames estuary and operated by the Royal Navy, were to deter and report German air raids following the Thames as a landmark, and attempts to lay mines by aircraft in this important shipping channel.
The A57 road was built in 1820 and tolls were phased out in 1884 but housing development in the area was delayed because of Crosspool ’ s elevated position which developers thought would deter people from settling in the area.
Extra defenses were built at Tours to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town.
The Citadel was built several miles inland, and atop the Bonnet a L ’ Eveque mountain, to deter attacks and to provide a lookout into the nearby valleys.

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