Sentence examples for discouraging action. from inspiring English sources

e360: You've written recently about uncertainty over the future impacts of climate change and how that plays a role in discouraging action in reducing greenhouse gases.

An economic disincentive is the absence of adequate payment or concession, or its withdrawal, thus discouraging action or effort in work.

Similar intimidation has surely helped discourage action on the currency front.

"Their messages at home and abroad are both calculated to discourage action," said Elliot Diringer, the director of international strategies for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a private group advocating emissions cuts.

Such cases require extra proof on the part of OSHA inspectors, which often discourages action.

This indefensible and un-American assault on climate science is just the latest attempt by Heartland to discourage action on climate change, but there is a long history.

Almost two-thirds of those questioned also backed the idea of introducing green taxes to discourage actions that harm the environment: 63% support new taxes, against 35% who are firmly against them.

Not everyone possesses a moral sense.[19] To Thomas Law (13 June 1814), Jefferson says that want of the moral sense can somewhat be rectified by education and employment of rational calculation, but such educative remedies are blandishments not aimed to encourage morally correct action, because that is impossible without a moral sense, but to discourage actions with pernicious consequences.

Deterrence – the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences – is a military mission, and constitutes one of the stated objectives of the deployment of the "Iron Brigade" to Europe.

The course will also explore the role of governmental actions via regulation and legislation and the role of ethics in discouraging negative action and encouraging real leadership.

The cumulative and convergent toll of subtle, but discouraging, adult actions in schools and other child-serving systems they come into contact with too often impedes the success of children of color, especially those who are poor, and burdens them with an emotional toll they don't deserve.