Saint-Saëns was on speaking terms with practically all of them, even if his prickly temperament and caustic wit tended to discourage close friendships.
The need for isolation discouraged close social contact.
Perhaps it's not Romney's fault that he is the way he is: he was raised in a religious culture that discourages close contact with non-believers, and later accumulated enough wealth to avoid rubbing elbows with average Americans.
In the early Cold War period, the emergence of West Germany as a bulwark against the Soviet menace tended to discourage a closer interrogation of German cultural values.
Skeptic Jacob Anbinder opined in The Week that the statistics were actually "discouraging" on closer inspection, revealing that half the 41 cities studied "actually saw peripheral job growth that was equal to or greater than core growth" during the time periods studied, and that 24 of the core districts lost jobs over 10 years.
A quiet time often consists of, but is not limited to, dimming the lights, decreasing telephone and pager volumes, closing patient rooms, discouraging staff interactions close to patient rooms, and performing diagnostic tests and other laboratory procedures outside of this time, if possible [ 5, 19, 28- 30].
Henin-Hardenne's white cap is always jammed tightly down on her head, almost as if she wants to discourage too close inspection of her features, frightened that they might betray the merest hint of what is going on in her mind.
Discouraged and close to retirement age, Williams decided to sell.
Joe Delmar, a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Human Services, said that while internal reviews are conducted once field workers have taken on 50 cases, workers are discouraged from closing cases until the veracity of abuse claims has been resolved.
Although initially discouraging, the failure to close an agreement with a pharma company created a remarkable opportunity for MVP.
For a lot of us, it can be discouraging when an important deal doesn't close on the first try.
