Sentence examples for discouraging effect from inspiring English sources

Years after the Washington Senators absconded to Dallas/Fort Worth, in 1971, an older Washingtonian friend told me that the loss of the team had a lengthy, discouraging effect on the ambience of the capital.

This course sequence may partially explain why students identified courses in chemistry so much more often than those in biology or physics as having a discouraging effect on continued interest in pursuing a medical career.

Doing the same with pages for Isis supporters and recruiters could have a similarly discouraging effect, she said.

"The helmet law will have an even more discouraging effect on scooter use than on cycling," Mr. Komanoff said, "because the scooter use is more casual.

But she said the weaknesses in the national economy, the uncertainty in energy markets and the corporate scandals that rocked the energy sector have had a greater discouraging effect on investment than the regulatory system in New York.

Much has been made of the discouraging effect that the Starr investigation may have on future aspirants to public office (only zealots and zeros need apply), but that's just half of it.

In the shorter run, it may have the opposite effect, discouraging some sellers and prompting others to raise their asking price so as to pass on the tax to buyers.The immediate effect of the announcement was that China's stockmarkets plunged, before regaining some ground (see chart).

The different styles function as a Brechtian alienation effect, discouraging too much emphasis on the art, encouraging a bond with the tale.

Backers of Mr. Bush's plan say that high marginal tax rates reduce wealth creation by discouraging investment, an effect that has serious long-term economic consequences.

AvalonBay's strategy is to build in "high barrier to entry" towns -- well-off suburban communities that have the wherewithal and the municipal muscle to keep out unwanted development, in effect discouraging AvalonBay's less aggressive competition, but not AvalonBay.

And in the House, three Republican lawmakers on the census oversight subcommittee recently rebuked a fellow Republican, Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, for comments depicting the census as Big Brother and, in effect, discouraging participation in the count.