And so, he said, when academic researchers inquired about getting F.D.A. approval for their studies with human subjects, "we almost discouraged them" from applying.
It would appear that atonement with God or our 'obsolete idea' of forgiveness through the blessing of a priest is almost discouraged by some ministers, who prefer instead to relativize human fragility against a more presentable backdrop of, say, personality weaknesses owing to some predictable infighting amongst members of our 'big societal family'.
And they were almost certainly discouraged by the meager compensation.
My husband's grandmother was less brutal but almost as discouraging.
THE news is almost uniformly discouraging here these days, as the worst economic crisis in Argentina's history intensifies.
Similarly, product-liability lawsuits against software companies whose products are insecure would almost certainly discourage software makers from cutting corners on security.The enemy withinIncompetence and indifference are one thing; misconduct is another.
"Over the years it almost gets discouraging to receive the phone calls," said Mr. Hermonot, who has a mailing list of restaurants that serve local food ready to go as soon as final approval comes.
Employers almost always discourage an employee working for a competitor.
Mr. Kim's struggles have all been marked by an almost preternatural optimism, matched by a serene self-confidence, and a reservoir of patience, without which lesser men might given up, discouraged Almost everyone who knows Mr. Kim well, or has studied his career closely, invokes his intense religious faith -- he is a Roman Catholic -- to explain his stubborn persistence in politics.
Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's prime minister, denounced foreign speculators as criminals and morons, and criticism almost everywhere was discouraged, sometimes quite forcefully.
Commissioner Bud Selig, who credited Carl Pohlad with saving the Twins for Minnesota when he bought them in 1984, immediately supported Pohlad's decision to sell the Twins, a step Selig would almost certainly have discouraged if the Twins were still a prime candidate to be disbanded.
