"discourage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The streets were well-lit and reasonably clean, and beggars were firmly discouraged from loitering.
- Individualism was firmly discouraged.
- But when Philip's cousin, King George of Greece, raised the possibility of an engagement, the idea was firmly discouraged.
- THE directors, however, added that illegal traffic in ancient and ethnic artwork should now be firmly discouraged.
- His 'open door' to the West appeared to be closing, and the taste for the Western way of life was firmly discouraged.
- Marina's early attempts at poetry were firmly discouraged, since the mother wished her to become a pianist.
- Tendencies to stereotype patients as unrewarding and responsible for their illness must be firmly discouraged.
- At the least, attacks on civilians could have been more firmly discouraged.
- That statement acknowledges that illegal traffic in ancient and ethnic artwork should now be "firmly discouraged."
- One of the stories firmly discouraged by Aunt Fonteyn was that prize money from such raids had built it and founded much of the family fortune.
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