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Example sentences for: discourage

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A letter writer to the WP , who claims to have worked for some of the biggest Cabinet departments, asks an interesting question: Why is the federal government accusing Microsoft of monopolistic business practices when, he says, those departments discourage the purchase of non-Windows PCs?
Tens of millions of humans, as we know, willingly partake of marijuana, and these differences between rat and human behavior should discourage us from using two rat studies to assert that a) marijuana is addictive in the same way as harder drugs are and b) marijuana primes humans for addiction to harder drugs.
Consider three hypotheses: Hypothesis 1 says that when I buy a gun, I discourage people from becoming criminals and so reduce crime against my neighbors.
The naive answer to why publishers might want to discourage the used book market is that they prefer to get paid every time a student buys a book.
Indeed, the entire enterprise of serious literary fiction is so marginal that one hates to discourage any sincere effort.