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1. We should listen to them, appreciate differences, encourage risk-taking (within limits) and discourage blind conformity
2. Soil nematodes can be added to the planter boxes to discourage termites
3. Initially, trying half heartedly to discourage him, I surrender and end up kissing him as enthusiastically as he is me
4. discourage them when they attacked
5. The warning not to jerk any movements is reiterated here as you should not try to swing your arms over violently as you may well injure a rigid muscle which would discourage you from ever attempting this valuable exercise again
6. ‘Gary … can you come and give me a hand with this, please?’ I called - if the man wants to be helpful, there’s no point in trying to discourage him -
7. discourage the travellers from going any further, by pointing that this
8. discourage rust, and painted in olive drab camouflage colours
9. ‘It’s the only way to discourage others,’ he said
10. In the course of the present century, too, there has been no great public calamity, such as a civil war, which could either discourage tillage, or interrupt the interior commerce of the country
11. Almost all that he gets is pure gain, and their price can scarce be so low as to discourage him from feeding this number
12. Part of all these is reserved for the use of his own family; the rest goes to market, in order to find the best price which is to be had, and which can scarce be so low is to discourage him from sending thither whatever is over and above the use of his own family
13. Besides what may be called the warehouse rent above mentioned, each person, upon first opening an account with the bank, pays a fee of ten guilders ; and for every new account, three guilder's three stivers; for every transfer, two stivers; and if the transfer is for less than 300 guilders, six stivers, in order to discourage the multiplicity of small transactions
14. They favour the wine trade of Portugal, and discourage that of France
15. Such is the very great difference between that trade which the wisdom of both nations has thought proper to discourage, and that which it has favoured the most
16. The rise in the money price of all commodities, which is in this case peculiar to that country, tends to discourage more or less every sort of industry which is carried on within it, and to enable foreign nations, by furnishing almost all sorts of goods for a smaller quantity of silver than its own workmen can afford to do, to undersell them, not only in the foreign, but even in the home market
17. It was their interest not only to degrade in all cases the value of the surplus produce of the colony, but in many cases to discourage and keep down the natural increase of its quantity
18. The largest importation of commodities of the first kind could not discourage the growth, or interfere with the sale, of any part of the produce of the mother country
19. By confining such commodities to the home market, therefore, it was proposed to discourage the produce, not of Great Britain, but of some foreign countries with which the balance of trade was believed to be unfavourable to Great Britain
20. In order to counteract this notable piece of mercantile policy, and to render herself as much as possible independent, not only of Sweden, but of all the other northern powers, Great Britain gave a bounty upon the importation of naval stores from America; and the effect of this bounty was to raise the price of timber in America much more than the confinement to the home market could lower it; and as both regulations were enacted at the same time, their joint effect was rather to encourage than to discourage the clearing of land in America
21. When those establishments were effectuated, and had become so considerable as to attract the attention of the mother country, the first regulations which she made with regard to them, had always in view to secure to herself the monopoly of their commerce; to confine their market, and to enlarge her own at their expense, and, consequently, rather to damp and discourage, than to quicken and forward the course of their prosperity
22. Though the encouragement of exportation, and the discouragement of importation, are the two great engines by which the mercantile system proposes to enrich every country, yet, with regard to some particular commodities, it seems to follow an opposite plan : to discourage exportation, and to encourage importation
23. It was the intention of our manufacturers, that the whole produce of those countries should be imported into Great Britain; and in order that they themselves might he enabled to buy it at their own price, that no part of it should be exported again, but at such an expense as would sufficiently discourage that exportation
24. It can never be the interest of those landed nations, if I may call them so, to discourage or distress the industry of such mercantile states, by imposing high duties upon their trade, or upon the commodities which they furnish
25. Such duties could only serve to discourage the increase of that surplus produce, and consequently the improvement and cultivation of their own land
26. The dearer the latter, therefore, the cheaper the former; and whatever tends in any country to raise the price of manufactured produce, tends to lower that of the rude produce of the land, and thereby to discourage agriculture
27. Those systems, therefore, which preferring agriculture to all other employments, in order to promote it, impose restraints upon manufactures and foreign trade, act contrary to the very end which they propose, and indirectly discourage that very species of industry which they mean to promote
28. Those agricultural systems, on the contrary, really, and in the end, discourage their own favourite species of industry
29. The object, besides, of the greater part of the bye-laws of all regulated companies, as well as of all other corporations, is not so much to oppress those who are already members, as to discourage others from becoming so; which may be done, not only by a high fine, but by many other contrivances
30. A fine, even of twenty pounds, besides, though it may not, perhaps, be sufficient to discourage any man from entering into the Turkey trade, with an intention to continue in it, may be enough to discourage a speculative merchant from hazarding a single adventure in it
31. Secondly, it may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance and employment to great multitudes
32. But the aggravation of the tax, which this may sometimes occasion upon a particular estate, is always so very small, that it never can discourage those improvements, nor keep down the produce of the land below what it would otherwise rise to
33. In order to discourage the practice, which is generally a foolish one, this species of rent might be valued rather high, and consequently taxed somewhat higher than common money-rents
34. The term, therefore, allowed, for the indemnification of the landlord, ought not to he a great deal longer than what was necessary for that purpose, lest the remoteness of the interest should discourage too much this attention
35. Under their management, this change is likely both to discourage cultivation, and to give new opportunities for abuse in the collection of the public revenue, which has fallen very much below what it was said to have been when it first fell under the management of the company
36. How could she discourage her
37. one in the closet, sealed with her memories, but she would never discourage Jill
38. A very heavy tax might discourage, too much, this attention and good management
39. That the personal taille tends, in many different ways, to discourage cultivation, and consequently to dry up the principal source of the wealth of every great country, I have already had occasion to observe in the third book of this Inquiry
40. The high duties which have been imposed upon the importation of many different sorts of foreign goods in order to discourage their consumption in Great Britain, have, in many cases, served only to encourage smuggling, and, in all cases, have reduced the revenues of the customs below what more moderate duties would have afforded
41. It has for some time past been the policy of Great Britain to discourage the consumption of spiritous liquors, on account of their supposed tendency to ruin the health and to corrupt the morals of the common people
42. In Holland, the heavy taxes upon the necessaries of life have ruined, it is said, their principal manufacturers, and are likely to discourage, gradually, even their fisheries and their trade in ship-building
43. At the very least they were trying to discourage us from keeping the appointment with a scientist they hoped to convert to their way of 143
44. Still, the silent way did not bring any kills and we wanted to kill enough of the enemy to discourage their communist behaviour
45. When principles of non-violence are either self-contained or practiced unconditionally under circumstances (otherwise) calling for a measured response, (sound) judgment and common sense appealing to the requirements of a peaceful, well-ordered society that every citizen (otherwise) owes an obligation, and whose conspicuous merits, perhaps laudable in some instances, however questionable at other times, and where (such) natural impulses are routinely rejected, even more remarkably when Property and Person and at times the Nation, are at risk by (anti-social) individuals determined to provoke harm; weighs in the balance, and where (institutional) recourse is problematical or uncertain, an (individual) is required, inasmuch as it lies within that individual‘s capacity to do so, to discourage such annoyances as they may present themselves to that individual as well as that individual‘s family and friends, however contrary to that individual‘s ―nature,‖ lest that individual‘s misplaced pacifism further encourage mischief makers and bullies alike, by providing license to habitually upset the harmony and safety of private and public concerns as it (otherwise) suits their primitive whims
46. Imagine the rippling effect on a number of industries that are tightly inter-woven, nor to mention its own impact on the nation‘s ability to adequately fund its own entitlement programs that, in turn, would subsequently trigger higher inflation resulting from higher (consumer) prices precipitated by lower productivity levels that would (likely) lead to higher taxes that would (more than likely) discourage investment that would (most likely) generate even lower revenues than before
47. The one thing welfare does not do is stop or discourage people from working
48. Understanding the forces that influence this turbulence could lead to design changes that would discourage turbulence, and would greatly enhance the “efficiency of movement” of fluids and gasses
49. “Number Thirty-one: Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history
50. clear explanation: "his balance between rationality and animal appears to have been damaged, he always attack, indulgence, accompanied by rude and dirty language, these are not his habit of the past, he didn't listen to friends and partners, especially when they discourage needs conflict with him, he did very impatient
1. I have known many people learn this posture in one or two lessons, but do not be discouraged if you take a little longer
2. discouraged if this happens
3. probably discouraged, but I want you to know that once you figure it all out,
4. No good rolling your eyes, Sally, you should have discouraged it when they were younger
5. Don't get discouraged, remember after the storm comes the rainbow
6. Tillage, indeed, in that part of ancient Italy which lay in the neighbour hood of Rome, must have been very much discouraged by the distributions of corn which were frequently made to the people, either gratuitously, or at a very low price
7. The low price at which this corn was distributed to the people, must necessarily have sunk the price of what could be brought to the Roman market from Latium, or the ancient territory of Rome, and must have discouraged its cultivation in that country
8. Hogan took point and discouraged any talking with a look
9. As the woollen manufactures, too, of Ireland, are fully as much discouraged as is consistent with justice and fair dealing, the Irish can work up but a smaller part of their own wool at home, and are therefore obliged to send a greater proportion of it to Great Britain, the only market they are allowed
10. To what degree such restraints upon the inland commerce of this commodity, joined to the general prohibition of exportation, must have discouraged the cultivation of countries less fertile, and less favourably circumstanced, it is not, perhaps, very easy to imagine
11. They loaded the public revenue with a very considerable expense: they imposed a very heavy tax upon the whole body of the people ; but they did not, in any sensible degree, increase the real value of their own commodity; and by lowering somewhat the real value of silver, they discouraged, in some degree, the general industry of the country, and, instead of advancing, retarded more or less the improvement of their own lands, which necessarily depend upon the general industry of the country
12. Their real wealth, their real revenue, therefore, would be the same as at present, though it might be expressed by a smaller quantity of silver, and they would neither be disabled nor discouraged from cultivating corn as much as they do at present
13. Her father had discouraged her once, many years previous
14. The exportation of the materials of manufacture is sometimes discouraged by absolute prohibitions, and sometimes by high duties
15. This prohibition, joined to the restraints imposed by the ancient provincial laws of France upon the transportation of corn from one province to another, and to the arbitrary and degading taxes which are levied upon the cultivators in almost all the provinces, discouraged and kept down the agriculture of that country very much below the state to which it would naturally have risen in so very fertile a soil, and so very happy a climate
16. exportation of their surplus produce; and this dependency, as it must have confined the market, so it must have discouraged the increase of this surplus produce
17. It must have discouraged, too, the increase of the manufactured produce, more than that of the rude produce
18. The policy of the ancient republics of Greece, and that of Rome, though it honoured agriculture more than manufactures or foreign trade, yet seems rather to have discouraged the latter
19. The expense of transporting all heavy goods from one part of the country to another, would soon be so much increased, the market for all such goods, consequently, would soon be so much narrowed, that their production would be in a great measure discouraged, and the most important branches of the domestic industry of the country annihilated altogether
20. By rendering the tax upon such fines a good deal heavier than upon the ordinary rent, this hurtful practice might be discouraged, to the no small advantage of all the different parties concerned, of the landlord, of the tenant, of the sovereign, and of the whole community
21. By valuing, in the same manner, such rents rather high, and consequently taxing them somewhat higher than common money-rents, a practice which is hurtful to the whole community, might, perhaps, be sufficiently discouraged
22. Discouraged, he moved to the bar to grab an ale
23. It was hard work; often she felt discouraged, but she
24. ‖ The former is bound by present conditions (only) while the latter cautions that an individual should neither feel discouraged nor overwhelmed by present conditions or expect everything to happen all at once
25. Young boys coming into their own, especially during their formative years, should not be discouraged from engaging in physical activities; that is to say, the type of ―horse play‖ or ―rough housing‖, common among growing boys, that gives vent to their masculinity; that is to say, gender characteristics underlying decidedly masculine attitudes inherent in the male species
26. “You do realize that heroes are officially discouraged,” he muttered
27. They built heroes, where our policy officially discouraged heroes
28. “It is unlikely that a lack of knowledge has ever discouraged speculation
29. Discouraged by her comments, Colling did not reply, and they drove in gloomy silence
30. This ‘use it or lose it’ syndrome, would be discouraged by the Party in charge
31. mother?” Khevasiah said discouraged
32. When history was either channeled or discouraged, might it be so that her
33. After an hour, he slumped next to the bed discouraged
34. Toward nightfall, I was able to find a small knoll on which to camp, but the mosquitoes were out in force, and while the bear grease discouraged most of them, the constant humming kept waking me up
35. If we were in David's shoes, we probably would be greatly discouraged at this point
36. came and told Lysias what had happened; 27 Who, when he heard of it, was confounded and discouraged, because neither such
37. At one time this was a place of pilgrimage, but the Empire discouraged pilgrims and allowed the hall to fall into ruin
38. who read this book, that they be not discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction,
39. he was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died
40. Harry was used to it by now although the nurses discouraged it as much as they could
41. becoming discouraged by their drivers was evident by the number of times she heard them blasting
42. thought-responsive, but one should not become discouraged if desired changes in the physical
43. confident, that unless it is totally discouraged, it will not give up
44. Roger felt, at times, overwhelmed and discouraged by the severity of the problems that were besetting his life, disillusioned and betrayed by women he once respected and admired, invaded and maligned by homosexuals who seemed to flaunt public responsibility in pursuit of private individual rights
45. 4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way
46. 9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them
47. 21 Behold, the Lord your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of your fathers has said to you; fear not, neither be discouraged
48. 28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there
49. 26 Now all the strangers that had escaped came and told Lysias what had happened; 27 Who when he heard of it was confounded and discouraged because neither such things as he would were done to Israel nor such things as the king commanded him were come to pass
50. 12 Now I beg those who read this book that they be not discouraged for these calamities but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction but for a chastening of our nation
1. Poverty, though it no doubt discourages, does not always prevent, marriage
2. The cheapness of gold and silver, or, what is the same thing, the dearness of all commodities, which is the necessary effect of this redundancy of the precious metals, discourages both the agriculture and manufactures of Spain and Portugal, and enables foreign nations to supply them with many sorts of rude, and with almost all sorts of manufactured produce, for a smaller quantity of gold and silver than what they themselves can either raise or make them for at home
3. The bounty, as it raises in the home market, not so much the real, as the nominal price of our corn; as it augments, not the quantity of labour which a certain quantity of corn can maintain and employ, but only the quantity of silver which it will exchange for ; it discourages our manufactures, without rendering any considerable service, either to our farmers or country gentlemen
4. By raising the price, he discourages the consumption, and puts every body more or less, but particularly the inferior ranks of people, upon thrift and good management If, by raising it too high, he discourages the consumption so much that the supply of the season is likely to go beyond the consumption of the season, and to last for some time after the next crop begins to come in, he runs the hazard, not only of losing a considerable part of his corn by natural causes, but of being obliged to sell what remains of it for much less than what he might have had for it several months before
5. If, by not raising the price high enough, he discourages the consumption so little, that the supply of the season is likely to fall short of the consumption of the season, he not only loses a part of the profit which he might otherwise have made, but he exposes the people to suffer before the end of the season, instead of the hardships of a dearth, the dreadful horrors of a famine
6. It discourages the exportation of the materials of manufacture, and of the instruments of trade, in order to give our own workmen an advantage, and to enable them to undersell those of other nations in all foreign markets; and by restraining, in this manner, the exportation of a few commodities, of no great price, it proposes to occasion a much greater and more valuable exportation of others
7. If it is otherwise, by discouraging the improvement of land, the church discourages the future increase of her own tithes, and the king the future increase of his own taxes
8. This policy, therefore, discourages agriculture in two different ways; first, by sinking the real value of its produce, and thereby lowering the rate of its profits; and, secondly, by raising the rate of profit in all other employments
9. It neither encourages nor discourages improvement
10. But though this rise of price in a foreign cotnmodity, may encourage domestic industry in one particular branch, it necessarily discourages that industry in almost every other
11. A new tax discourages business activity, and the government doesn’t make the money it thought it would
12. An exemplary environment, however, should never be (overly) excessive or overbearing that it discourages creative thought or initiative
13. A weak leader has "yes men "around him and actively discourages anyone who may be able to replace him
14. Turning this theory into a system of laws by the fiat of denunciation of its competitors discourages the very research necessary to obtain that objective, if indeed that is ever possible
15. remains intact, and this only discourages us
16. price discourages the use of debt, because more debt would raise the chance of default
17. “But on the other end, the smaller the individual unit size, the more it inhibits and discourages sharing
18. Some would think I am at fault; in fact, you are all aware that the woman bears the burden of marriage separation in our society mainly because of cultural norms that discourages the black woman washing ones dirty predilections in the public, unlike the white women
19. democratic, in that it discourages an informed, politically active
20. Odin is off on a campaign in the realm of the dwarfs and Loki’s snuck off to play with Hoenir — Odin discourages Loki’s visits to Hoenir’s hut when he is home
21. discourages expressions of emotions and that makes you uncomfortable, it's
22. Men feel more coldly towards a system which sends out agents, whose training consists somewhat in persuading them not to think on the question of human destiny; and which discourages the expression of belief, whether at home or abroad, in a sense more accordant with the thought of our generation
23. Something about him discourages it
24. They make it so difficult and cumbersome it discourages not only the miner who’s sick but his friends as well
25. Worse yet, if we believe in this rubbish that the special have an easier path, this idea discourages those without these characteristics to mistakenly believe they have a lesser chance
26. Association of these symptoms with drinking discourages alcohol intake
1. now discouraging those who still putting their trust in
2. Of course the Government should have a framework for taking action on such reports without discouraging those reporting such cases
3. Some days later it was discovered that at least one brother was discouraging the making of such future plans and thus the whole plan fell apart
4. For a young preacher this can really be discouraging
5. It is like the policy which would promote agriculture, by discouraging manufactures
6. The first of these events was the civil war, which, by discouraging tillage and interrupting commerce, must have raised the price of corn much above what the course of the seasons would otherwise have occasioned
7. That rise in the real value of silver, therefore, which is the effect of lowering the average money price of corn, tends to enlarge the greatest and most important market for corn, and thereby to encourage, instead of discouraging its growth
8. Whatever, therefore, raises the rate of mercantile profit, either lessens the superiority, or increases the inferiority of the profit of improvement : and, in the one case, hinders capital from going to improvement, and in the other draws capital from it; but by discouraging improvement, the monopoly necessarily retards the natural increase of another great original source of revenue, the rent of land
9. discouraging the growing of wool, must have reduced very much the annual produce of that commodity, though not below what it formerly was, yet below what, in the present state of things, it would probably have been, had it, in consequence of an open and free market, been allowed to rise to the natural and proper price
10. If it is otherwise, by discouraging the improvement of land, the church discourages the future increase of her own tithes, and the king the future increase of his own taxes
11. The constant view of such companies is always to raise the rate of their own profit as high as they can; to keep the market, both for the goods which they export, and for those which they import, as much understocked as they can ; which can be done only by restraining the competition, or by discouraging new adventurers from entering into the trade
12. the duty of elders should include discouraging
13. “Pretty discouraging,” Sylvia said, shaking her head
14. This had the effect of discouraging voters in the earlier time zone in western Florida
15. dependency of the people by discouraging self-reliance, the quality that virtually built America
16. discouraging results of American high school seniors in the Third
17. On the contrary, there had been discouraging
18. discouraging, she never actively encouraged them, preferring to spend the next eight years or so in a form of social isolation
19. In the extreme, heretics were burned alive, discouraging their activities
20. This insult piqued his pride and rather than discouraging him, had just the
21. In the same article, Horowitz reports that on university campuses, the politicization of the undergraduate classroom since the 1960s and the systematic political harassment of conservative students by their radical professors has had the chief negative effect of discouraging conservative students from pursuing academic careers
22. Parker read the discouraging thoughts in the young man’s mind
23. This sounded faintly discouraging, but Trask decided to have faith in the dealer and ignore the nay-sayers
24. It was somewhat discouraging that no one disputed her assessment of my abilities, however they all agreed we could do with a spruce up
25. I found this thinking very discouraging
26. After a great deal of thought I’ve reached the conclusion that discouraging physical solutions to young men’s problems is stupid, because physical and verbal violence are merely different sides of the same coin
27. nothing but discouraging remarks on your tongue?"
28. With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings
29. At the end of yet another discouraging, fruitless day checking his computer (made in Malaysia), Joe decided to relax for a while
30. ” It’s discouraging when an apparent sale doesn’t happen, but there are worse things that can happen
31. In return, this discouraging prospect had made the populations of the Middle East both worried and furious, as they realized a bit late the extent to which the riches from oil extraction had been squandered or even squarely robbed by their elites, monarchs and various leaders
32. That has to be discouraging
33. Today, they’re only slightly more discouraging than calling a business and on entering their voice mail system, hearing the words, “I don’t understand you” by a electronic automaton
34. The official attitude there is frankly discouraging
35. Once I saw Susan Saladoff’s hopeful yet truly discouraging movie, I concluded that mention of it could be made in either the chapter on money or control
36. Instead of discouraging her, his words only made her shrug
37. That alone is considerable injustice, but the current system of providing welfare in the United States does the most harm by encouraging abuse, and discouraging personal
38. motivated the results can be discouraging and a waste or your
39. Interest rate change by the Fed is aimed at adjusting money supplies by encouraging or discouraging lending activities
40. however, that the answer lies in discouraging the investigation of spiritual reality
41. the galectin-3 receptor prevents cancer cells from adhering to each other, discouraging their ability to form colonies
42. It is a lonely and often discouraging
43. All my entire journey I cursed the almighty for giving this discouraging life
44. their break, the discouraging discovery that their precious work is being distributed without
45. After this short discouraging conversation we all went to bed
46. discouraging in tone, with a pervasive focus on the negative aspects of
47. It was discouraging that he couldn't make a proper fireball, but Eric didn't have the time, energy or presence of mind to spare on failure
48. Neander, right in discouraging infant baptism, as not apostolic; and in maintaining the highly significant rite, Jewish, Christian, and Catholic, of immersion, representing the death and burial 'of the old man,’ and also resurrection to life eternal
49. 'Another reason for the partial decline of interest in missionary societies will be found in the discouraging fewness of conversions among Mohammedans, Brahminists, and Buddhists, who compose the population of Asia
50. This is a very time consuming process prone to many discouraging failures