Which is also, I think, the most discouraging part of this story.

But some are more discouraging than others, and this had to be one of them.

It certainly is a discouraging picture of the art world.

However, for some years he met with a discouraging lack of interest.

Both of them set out looking for work immediately but with discouraging results.

After four years, the political trend is even more discouraging.

They gave their father the discouraging report and reluctantly went back to bed.

On a social level, the numbers are both encouraging and discouraging.

In the city's poorest areas, the numbers were even more discouraging.

It was a bit of positive news on a discouraging day for the Yankees.

Each of their three road trips have ended with a discouraging game.

"For people who are hoping to work things out, it's a very discouraging thing."

With few exceptions, each time the Government issues a discouraging report on the economy, the stock market takes off toward a new high.

"I've had a hard time getting shown; the commercial art world is very discouraging," he said.

"It's a bit discouraging, but I was kind of prepared for something like this," he said.

We need to encourage these countries and should not give them any discouraging signals.

Having a manager that bosses people around without doing any work is very discouraging.

There is something familiar, and quite discouraging, about this split.

The discouraging thing is that the media gladly went along with it.

"The discouraging thing about this game was that we were playing hard.

"The discouraging part," he said, "is that the project has been announced about four or five times already."

It was the most discouraging laugh Blade had ever heard.

"That we have gotten to the point where people are afraid to talk about what they know best is really discouraging," she said.

The most discouraging time was the summer of 1992.

Even more discouraging is how ill-equipped schools are to deal with the situation.

At least long enough for them to become discouraged and leave.

I would never discourage someone from trying to start a group.

How can we discourage such things without the use of force?

He had tried to discourage the men from getting them.

He was about to ask something, but I discouraged him.

Why did he want to discourage me from doing my job?

Men also were more likely to use discouraged as a reason than women.

Some of these became discouraged and left the first year.

If anything, my father might have wanted to discourage me.

Many of those were people who had simply become too discouraged to keep looking for work.

His father discouraged him from music, saying he needed to get a real job.

She was out of the door and gone before I could discourage her further.

Right now, the last thing they needed was more bad news to discourage them.

By the end of 1982 there were 1.8 million such discouraged workers.

I am discouraged, and nothing will bring me out of it.

There was only one more thing he could say to discourage them.

So, if people show up, we just have to discourage them.

The real reason, of course, was to discourage anyone from going there.

What is the Government going to do to discourage this?

"Why are you trying to discourage us from going on?"

In the beginning she should even discourage him from talking.

And they tell me about how discouraged their son or daughter may be.

But as months and years passed, he became discouraged, say people who knew him then.

Discouraged, he got to his feet and went back to look at the main room.

Or he could keep moving, to discourage someone else from doing the same.