(v. t.) To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lawmakers across the globe are beginning to recognize the need to deter this destructive conduct.
(2) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(3) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
(4) Over the next few days, I look forward to reviewing this guilty plea closely to see whether it appropriately holds officers, directors and key executives individually accountable and whether the plea will be sufficient to help deter similar misconduct in the future,” he said.
(5) This could also have the added benefit of deterring aggressive tax planning by multinational corporations looking to avoid reputational risks.
(6) "The extraordinarily long lines deterred or prevented voters from waiting to vote.
(7) Ed Mead, a director of estate agency Douglas & Gordon, says the recent pace of price rises has been deterring some homeowners from selling up in case they miss out on more growth.
(8) She went on to deliver a stark warning that leaving the single market would deter international investors from Britain and lead major companies to question whether they should relocate to mainland Europe.
(9) You deter poor people and sick people from seeking the healthcare they need.” There is no evidence that charging patients £10 to see a GP would reduce demand for appointments or reduce the number of “worried well” seeking care.
(10) The Canadian troops will join a total of 4,000 soldiers Nato is deploying to the Baltic states and Poland to help deter the Kremlin’s threat after its actions in Crimea and its stoking of military conflict in eastern Ukraine .
(11) Living standards are expected to fall as a result of the vote to quit the EU and foreign companies will be deterred from investing in Britain, according to economists appearing before a parliamentary committee.
(12) Iran's supreme leader, who makes the final decision on all state matters in Iran, said earlier this month that Tehran only agreed to the deal in Geneva to "deter the evil" of the US .
(13) The US secret service allowed an armed man with an arrest record to enter an elevator with president Barack Obama, it was disclosed on Tuesday, hours after officials admitted they missed three chances to deter an intruder who broke into the White House earlier this month.
(14) UUP to leave Northern Ireland’s power-sharing executive Read more The revival of the independent monitoring commission (IMC), which had the task of examining the status of IRA and loyalist paramilitary ceasefires before devolution was restored nearly a decade ago, has been mooted as a way to rebuild the unionist community’s trust in republican goodwill and deter future ceasefire breaches.
(15) Regardless, physicians' diagnostic efforts should not be deterred in such patients.
(16) Council chiefs are being urged to launch an investigation after metal spikes were installed outside a luxury block of London flats to deter homeless people from sleeping in the doorway.
(17) Threats may now come from ideological terrorists unlikely to be deterred by a big missile, but Trident is more flexible than it appears; missiles can be loaded with small warheads enabling precise strikes against installations or terrorist cells within nations – or rogue states.
(18) Sisal eaves curtains deterred mosquitoes from hut entry but did not kill those that had entered.
(19) Downing Street was forced to distance itself from a second Tory peer in a week after Flight warned that plans to remove child benefit from higher-rate taxpayers would deter the middle classes from having children.
(20) • The Department for Education says plans to “change the way the performance tables are calculated” will deter schools from doing this in the future Congratulations to all the students and teachers who picked up their results today – and the best of luck with whatever you hope to do next.
Discourage
Definition:
(v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
(v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
(n.) Lack of courage; cowardliness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reported case of fetal infection in spite of previous rubella vaccination of the mother does not discourage the use of rubella vaccine.
(2) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
(3) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(4) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(5) Physicians are urged to reject involvement in rationing as inconsistent with their role as patient advocates and to support technology assessment, fee revisions, and more stringent self regulation as ways to discourage malpractice suits.
(6) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(7) The mean pregnancy rate among 17 patients with minimal disease for whom surgery was discouraged was 64.7 per cent; all pregnancies occurred within the first 2 years of follow-up.
(8) Chapman’s proposal , however, would structure cuts to public funding so as to discourage higher fees.
(9) "Don't be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we've made some mistakes.
(10) Smoking should be discouraged to reduce the risk for both lung cancer and heart disease.
(11) She finds indoor activities to discourage the kids from playing outside on the foulest days, and plans holidays abroad as often as possible – but still frets about what their years in Delhi may do to her children’s health.
(12) In both patients the therapeutic results were discouraging with cytostatics (e. g. chlorambucil), splenectomy is considered as the treatment of choice.
(13) Time-consuming, technically demanding details of the procedure, however, discourage its use.
(14) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
(15) It was opposed by Ugandan prime minister Amama Mbabazi, who argued that not enough MPs were present for a quorum, a challenge that might yet discourage Museveni from signing the bill into law.
(16) Limits-of-coverage, a common feature in insurance policies, are shown empirically to discourage the selection of contact lenses in favor of glasses.
(17) Bond trading by US banks has been declining since 2009, mainly due to new rules that discourage banks from taking unnecessary risks.
(18) The government is concerned that a very tough EPS would discourage companies from building new coal plants to demonstrate CCS technology.
(19) The apparent lack of "anything to do" can discourage physicians from attempting anything more than perfunctory management of these cases.
(20) Rapid dose escalation or doses greater than 200 mg are discouraged.