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Example sentences for: discouraging

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[David] McClelland [author of The Achieving Society ] said that the "famous self-confidence" of businessmen--really, their refusal to face discouraging facts--was an important tool for economic development.
John McCain's anti-tobacco bill . It would raise the price of cigarettes (thereby ostensibly discouraging youth smoking) by imposing half a billion dollars in fees on tobacco companies to support anti-smoking education, research, health care, and cessation programs.
Scrambled eggs are not an easy dish to cook in such a way that hungry men turn away in discouragement, yet the scrambled eggs Eleanor Roosevelt always made in a chafing dish for Sunday night supper were undeniably discouraging.
People who speculate on the odds can be either upbeat or quite discouraging depending on what ax they have to grind.
Discriminatory or unethical behavior by health-care professionals against PLWA, as documented in other countries [7–11], may create an atmosphere that interferes with effective prevention and treatment by discouraging individuals from being tested or seeking information on how to protect themselves and others from HIV/AIDS [12–14].