deterrent example

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deterrent example - punishment intended as a warning to others; "they decided to make an example of him"

admonition, word of advice, monition, warning - cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness); "a letter of admonition about the dangers of immorality"; "the warning was to beware of surprises"; "his final word of advice was not to play with matches"

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This objective scientific method has a tendency to become sternly judicial, and in extreme cases she even seems to be using her weak or imperfect characters as deterrent examples.

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They dismissed threatening statements from Musharraf's camp as "cry in the wilderness" and said for the first time a dictator who abrogated the constitution twice was being held to account to set a deterrent example.

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It was widely felt the execution took place because Lord Melbourne wanted a scapegoat to blame for the rising and to set a deterrent example to others.