Sentence examples for discouraged attempts from inspiring English sources

A spokeswoman for the Fifth Fleet disputed criticism that the Navy discouraged attempts to engage with Bahrain's Shiite community.

The memorials in Spain almost all record only one side, Franco's victorious rebels.The centre-right People's Party, in power since 1996, has discouraged attempts to pass motions in parliament condemning the Franco regime.

No surprise, then, that the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, and the minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, discouraged attempts by the bipartisan "Gang of Six" to resolve the debt-limit crisis.

The previous law allowed school districts to dismiss teachers for "inefficiency," but the procedure for doing so took several years and could cost districts more than $100,000, which state officials said discouraged attempts to remove bad teachers.

Perhaps Plato's attitude to visual representation claiming so often that the highest philosophical knowledge is devoid of it, and attacking poets and artists in general more than once inhibited and discouraged attempts to capture in painting, sculpture or prints, the mythical scenes Plato himself depicted so vividly in words.

Unfortunately, this pervasive position has discouraged attempts to mix source populations and as a consequence limited the use of translocations.

The trio performed in near darkness, discouraging attempts to watch their techniques.

If nothing else, he and other legal scholars said, the adoption of the body cameras by police departments may help discourage attempts to prosecute citizens for making their own video records of police interactions, in most cases under wiretapping or eavesdropping laws that prohibit recording without consent from both parties.

But these differences should not discourage attempts to connect these communities.

The global context is not good, either for headache, which is undertreated everywhere [60] (a failure that should not discourage attempts at remediation [26]), or for psychiatric disorders, for which only a minority of affected people receive adequate treatment in most countries around the world [61].

He made little secret of his willingness to succeed Ian Smith as Prime Minister if Smith showed even "the least whiff of surrender," and did his best to discourage attempts to get the Rhodesians to compromise.