Sentence examples for discouraged efforts from inspiring English sources

When other members of Ford management discouraged efforts by William Clay Ford Jr. to take a leadership role, Mr. Nasser built an alliance with him.

As my colleague Rachel Donadio reports, "the Vatican has recalled its ambassador to Ireland following the release of an Irish government report that the Vatican had discouraged efforts by bishops to report cases of sex abuse to the police".

Europe's troubled experience with carbon trading has also discouraged efforts to establish large-scale carbon trading systems in other countries, including the United States, although California and a group of Northeastern states have set up smaller regional markets.

Two years ago, Mr. Kenny also attacked the Vatican after a report found that officials there had discouraged efforts by bishops to report cases of sex abuse to the police".

ROME — The Vatican recalled its ambassador to Ireland on Monday, citing reaction to a recent Irish government report that said the Vatican had discouraged efforts by bishops to report cases of sexual abuse to the police.

Experts from around the world said that India's failure to construct an adequate dengue surveillance system has impeded awareness of the illness's vast reach, discouraged efforts to clean up the sources of the disease and slowed the search for a vaccine.

That kind of blame also discourages efforts to collaborate with others to make changes that no individual can achieve alone.

Secretary Shalala said she feared that the good news would invite complacency, discouraging efforts to "modernize Medicare".

Will the technology discourage efforts to improve energy efficiency, or might it be a valuable tool in the fight against climate change?

Senator Trent Lott, the majority leader, agreed today that the Senate would consider an overhaul of the campaign finance law in March and said he would discourage efforts to kill the legislation through prolonged debate.

In meetings at the White House, doctors and hospital executives have conveyed the same message: the president's all-or-nothing approach could discourage efforts to adopt electronic health records because some of the proposed standards are impossibly high and the risk of failure is great.