The phrase "appear to discourage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing perceptions or observations about something that seems to dissuade or deter someone from a particular action or belief.
Example: "The recent changes in policy appear to discourage participation in the program."
Alternatives: "seem to deter" or "seem to dissuade".
Republicans equate citizenship with participation in political life and are consequently threatened by rhetorical and economic practices which appear to discourage political participation.
This difficulty did not appear to discourage the children in the least, or to make even the youngest ones shy of him.
Several men appear to discourage the man with the gun from approaching the front line of the clashes, but he does so anyway and fires one shot before retreating.
Time horizons are a real problem: short-term PbR contracts appear to discourage innovation – there isn't time to learn by failing, so stick with the tried and tested, even if it's not that good.
The case has become a potential source of acute embarrassment to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon because it has cast an unflattering light on internal protections, put in place more than six years ago, that were theoretically devised to shield whistle-blowers, but in practice appear to discourage them.
Messrs Bó and Rossi attributed their increased effort to the enhanced return-on-investment legislators expect from the longer term:Shorter terms appear to discourage effort not due to campaign distractions but due to an investment payback logic: when effort yields returns over multiple periods, longer terms yield a higher chance of capturing those returns.
N-linked glycosylation on the extracellular domain (ECD) appears to discourage disulfide-linked aggregation.
Ms. Lucena also appeared to discourage a recount, defending the country's digital voting system as bulletproof.
These conditions appeared to discourage the growth of the fungal rice blast in the sticky rice plants.
In 1995 she appeared to discourage all tourism, telling an interviewer, "Tourists better stay at home and read some of the many human rights reports".
Wilkie also appeared to discourage too many activists, about 25 of whom were squeezed into the public gallery, from applying to be defendants, telling them: "You are at risks of costs.
