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Example sentences for: discouraged

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A two year agony of fact-finding panels and legal actions ensued, with losers both male and female: Scapegoat men were singled out for behavior their profession had never before discouraged; women who told of being pressured for sex found themselves alone, laughed at, or forced by the hostile environment to leave.
The use of tap water as dilution water is discouraged unless it is dechlorinated and passed through a deionizer and carbon filter.
Excessive negativity has evidently always been discouraged.
Reasons to be discouraged: 1) most of the gains were generated by companies with little or no profit ; 2) the market is beginning to scrutinize new stocks more closely; and 3) analysts predict a sell-off in early 2000 as investors unload stocks they held for tax purposes.
There comes a point in life, he wrote, when "wailing is rightly discouraged, and groans are also considered a signal of extreme weakness.