"discourage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The city told the outside world that it would provide a generous rebuilding fund - and actively discouraged money-raising efforts that had begun all across the country.
- This outcome impedes teamwork and information flows, and discourages daily efforts by administration, faculty, and staff to improve processes.
- Mr. Deng generally discouraged efforts to create a cult around himself, as his predecessor Mao had done.
- Secretary Shalala said she feared that the good news would invite complacency, discouraging efforts to "modernize Medicare."
- Ms. McGrath, MTV's creative director, says emphatically that the network discourages such efforts by record labels.
- While doctors have long approved of moderate exercise for pregnant women, they have generally discouraged more vigorous efforts.
- The number of uncommitted delegate applicants was a surprise because state committee officials and Governor Cuomo had discouraged such efforts.
- (No one can calculate the odds of this, but to assume failure would discourage the very efforts that will promote success.)
- High budget deficits have resulted in the underfinancing of existing social programs, they say, and discouraged new efforts.
- France has become a veritable electricity junkie, whose policy has all but discouraged efforts to promote the efficient uses of energy.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.