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Example sentences for: discouraging

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Most blamed the combination of low starting salaries and high law school loans for discouraging law students from public service jobs.
But that's because Starr, mindful of Justice Department guidelines discouraging compelled testimony from journalists, never even tried to get the testimony of his best potential witness, . Meanwhile, Steele could not be called by the prosecution, thanks to the Fifth Amendment, and did not testify in her own defense.
In the lonely and, at times, discouraging world of whistleblowing, we whistleblowers are passionate, and often successful, because our efforts have a different goal than the corporations and political interests whose operations we occasionally challenge.
The "inhibitory" activity of myelin may actually serve to promote axonal growth in an intact fiber tract (such as the distal stump of the injured spinal cord) by restricting this growth to an orientation that is parallel to the fiber tract while discouraging local meandering and collateral sprouting.
If governments can't regulate the illegal inflow of cigarettes into their countries, they can't generate effective health programs for discouraging smoking, especially, notes the NYT , because smuggled smokes tend to be cheaper, which means teenagers can buy more of them.