Sentence examples for are designed to discourage from inspiring English sources

Late fees are designed to discourage bad behavior and are influenced by estimates of risk.

And they are designed to discourage households from increasing their already-record debts rather than to puncture a housing bubble.

A spokesman for the UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said the treaty's provisions are designed to discourage frivolous investor-state disputes.

"It looks to us as though the benefit changes for 2002 are designed to discourage enrollment of beneficiaries who have health care needs," Ms. Stein said.

They discuss why policies are designed to discourage employment among older workers and why reforms to counter this often meet resistance.

It also explains why sanctions, like fines and penalties, can have the perverse effect of increasing the undesirable behaviors they are designed to discourage.

I expressed my disbelief that a 684-passenger ship is designed to discourage disabled travelers.

The king's aides argued the ban was designed to discourage casual relationships, not marriage.

The naloxone is poorly absorbed sublingually and is designed to discourage intravenous use.

The "diverted profits tax" is designed to discourage large companies from taking earnings out of the UK to avoid tax.

McKay does perform in cabarets, but "Get Away from Me" is designed to discourage any genre associations.