This led to the development of a secret nuclear weapons program as an ultimate deterrent.

Mr. Frank insists his offer is simply the ultimate deterrent to the hardened criminal.

It is the Clan's ultimate deterrent, if you like: they were much more paranoid during the, the seventies when the civil war was being fought.

With them, pain is sometimes the only effective ultimate deterrent.

Like the time they suffered from the ultimate deterrent to lovemaking, a sunburn.

France says the ultimate deterrent will be the car of tomorrow, a vehicle being developed and prepared for competition in 2007.

Officials hope that the latest move will prove to be the ultimate deterrent.

The death penalty is the ultimate deterrent for violent crime.

He left the country with the ultimate deterrent.

"So that if someone tries to unleash this kind of terror on the subway, we have the ultimate deterrent to prevent them with."