(v. t.) To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).
(v. t.) To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) The day after last Monday's trial, he flew to Switzerland from East Midlands airport to try to dissuade the government there from building a new coal plant.
(2) Michael loyally accompanied his father back, although he said he had tried to dissuade him many times from returning because he did not want him to die in prison.
(3) The senior Labour MP said the issue was particularly acute because the people turning away from politics were "the people who need [to take] political action and are dissuaded from doing so".
(4) The deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, argued that the delivery of the S-300 system had been previously agreed with the Syrian government in Damascus and would be a "stabilising factor" that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict.
(5) Patients with Crohn's disease should be dissuaded from smoking.
(6) Obviously, workers get disheartened and reduce their demand for work even when they need it; in other cases, the state and local authorities try to dissuade them or do not register their demand because they do not have the funds to provide the required work.
(7) We were trying very hard to stick to the "not being an influence" thing, but I did try to dissuade her from the [life-size] horse!
(8) Both harangued Brian from the outset calling it "a squalid little film" and "tenth rate"; no amount of measured argument on the Pythons part would dissuade the pious double act of their firmly held belief that Life of Brian mocked Christ.
(9) However, Buckinghamshire county council, which has been co-ordinating an anti-HS2 alliance, said "there would appear to be nothing to dissuade us" from dropping a threat to seek a judicial review.
(10) Toon attempted to dissuade him from boxing by explaining its dangers.
(11) Counseling ideas for each of the categories includes approaches to encourage, ignore, dissuade or observe to categorize the belief later.
(12) This case reinforces the fact that hematologic findings should not dissuade the work-up of papular acrodermatitis for hepatitis B or other less commonly associated viruses.
(13) One of them said: “My job today is to make you go away.” Migrants reach the Serbian-Hungarian border - in pictures Read more With Orbán at the helm, Hungary’s populist Fidesz government has reacted to the summer influx by spending €100m (£73m) building a four metre razor-wire fence and launching an anti-migrant billboard campaign aimed at dissuading people from coming to the country.
(14) Fear of a Herxheimer-like reaction should not dissuade clinicians from administering antibiotics to patients with leptospirosis.
(15) Law dropped her like a stone and apologised to Miller, but not enough to dissuade her from dumping him and being branded 'Love Rat Law'.
(16) Though it is possible to list the more common complications seen for each congenital anomaly, the tedious repetitiveness of such an approach dissuaded the author.
(17) Calculations by the Austrian government, which is keen on a transaction tax, showed that even if the number of deals fell by up to 65% as the fee dissuaded people from unnecessary trades, it could still raise $700bn (£420bn) a year.
(18) That skull was buried in 1960 in the courtyard of Cromwell's old college, Sidney Sussex at Cambridge, in an unmarked spot to dissuade ghoulish souvenir hunters.
(19) The supermarkets need more funds to finance millions of pounds’ worth of price cuts, particularly on everyday basics such as milk, eggs and bread, in order to dissuade their customers from migrating to the low-cost chains.
(20) Last spring Barzani tried in vain to dissuade the US from selling F16 fighter planes to Iraq.
Dissuasion
Definition:
(n.) The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation.
(n.) A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive.
Example Sentences:
(1) A force of 110 heavily armed officers, led by the elite tactical unit Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion (Raid), launched an assault on a third‑storey flat at 8 rue Corbillon, a few doors down from a primary school and a 15-minute walk from the Stade de France.
(2) The minimum punishment was not sufficient to have the necessary dissuasive effect.
(3) The second ('Hooked') reflected a feeling of inability to give up smoking, and a resentment at other's attempts at dissuasion.
(4) Although to date BRMs have shown only limited activity in restricted subsets of patients which may be viewed as dissuasion to some investigators; nonetheless, it should also be a stimulus to conduct careful, basic, and clinical experimentation aimed at verifying the promise from preclinical studies and to obtain further fundamental information on the BRM mechanism of action that would provide a basis for the ultimate utilization of these agents as well as the identification-development of appropriate analogs predicted on the deficiencies observed to date with the BRM.
(5) "But the idea of the reform isn't to give us fines but to be dissuasive enough so companies have compliance with the rules."
(6) EoN, and indeed other market participants in the generating sector, are hoping for a dissuasive sentencing to discourage similar such incidents in the future."
(7) The report, Drugs: International Comparators, documents in great detail the experience of Portugal, where personal use was decriminalised nearly 11 years ago and those arrested for drugs are given the choice of going before a health “dissuasion commission” or facing a criminal justice process.
(8) The UK chief executive of energy giant E.ON repeatedly lobbied the then-energy secretary Ed Miliband and others over the sentencing of activists disrupting the company's power plants, warning that any failure to issue "dissuasive" sentences could "impact" upon investment decisions in the UK.
(9) That won’t put anyone off.” More confusing was the suggestion that UK Border Force officers would be visiting camps to provide migrants with a “more dissuasive and realistic sense of life” in the UK.
(10) Every Thursday, in the square below the presidential balcony, the "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" demonstrated, despite every dissuasion, that the disappeared would never be forgotten until justice was done.
(11) These actions are having a dissuasive effect on protesters, said the organisation.
(12) It does not cover specific drug therapies for alcoholism (aversion, chemical restraint, dissuasion), nor nonspecific drug therapies (vitamins, magnesium) the interest and limits of which are well known.
(13) Dissuasion and inappropriate advice from doctors significantly delayed diagnosis in 25% of all cases.
(14) During the medical follow up, with the help of specialized functional tests, the physician may detect a state of overtraining and start a dissuasive action against doping habits.
(15) It also provides that such measures must be “effective, proportionate and dissuasive”.
(16) • Piloting a system used in Portugal, where drug use has been decriminalised, which involves “dissuasion commissions” assessing drug users and diverting them from the criminal justice system and into treatment.