And, at least in theory, a minority party in a state might decide to discourage its adherents from voting to reduce the electoral count when the presidential winner in the state is certain to be from the other party.
So church leaders decided to step up efforts to discourage use of the term Mormon Church.
Weary and discouraged, they decided to abandon the hunt for the time being.
"I was discouraged and decided to stop fighting for the barriers any longer," he wrote in The Times-Picayune.
So, discouraged, he decided to invest all his knowledge into building a boat, and then he would leave.
Goldman has decided to reinforce a policy of discouraging its managing directors from sitting on boards of companies other than those in which it owns a significant stake, a spokesman, Lucas van Praag, said yesterday.
By late Wednesday night, with the negotiators making little progress, 80 of the students were starting to feel discouraged and decided to begin a fast that would take the place of the Thanksgiving feast they might otherwise be enjoying back home with friends and families.
King found this response discouraging, and decided to await the results of the 1930 election before pressing the issue.
Rather than increase interest rates dramatically to discourage new applications, we've decided to withdraw temporarily from offering mortgages to non-customers until we've cleared the backlog.
Discouraged, they next decided to try their luck at the city hall.
