Sentence examples for discourage theft from inspiring English sources

New chairs, equipped with a steel rod to discourage theft, have been purchased.

The goods are weighed on scales, once at the register and again at the door to discourage theft.

It contains six bags (without bottoms, to discourage theft), 20 shoes (the rights only, for the same reason), and hundreds of dead flies (thieves, help yourselves).

Sheathed in pigskin and wood, it has a metal ring affixed to its cover with which it was chained to a shelf to discourage theft.

However, I am thinking that by showing some trust in the borrowers, that shared respect might do more to discourage theft than the threat of fines.

The industrial products and services provider Tyco International Ltd. is buying the Sensormatic Electronics Corporation, which makes the electronic security tags used to discourage theft from clothing stores and other retailers, for $2.2 billion in stock.

In 2011, the Georgia Tech Student Government Association (SGA) launched a "Keep the 'T' in Tech" campaign to discourage thefts of 'T's from signage around the campus.

You will need to leave a credit card number as a means of discouraging theft.

He discourages theft by favoring spiny yucca and colorful but thorny pyracantha.

Ms. Cha's phone was entered in a new nationwide database for stolen cellphones, which tracks a phone's unique identifying number to prevent it from being activated, theoretically discouraging thefts.

Worker centers have done much to discourage wage theft and have marginally increased the pay of some workers.