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Example sentences for: discouraging

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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.
As the Times observes, this is a pretty dramatic shift from just this past weekend when administration officials were discouraging talk of a near-term surplus.
My speech, of course, is very hesitant and often discouraging.
In spite of this discouraging opinion, application of various signal processing methods in this field is still very popular.
It was a creepy, discouraging display.