The election campaign being prepared by the Tories is compared by insiders to the party's effort in 1992, which dissuaded voters from gambling on an unconvincing Labour opposition.
He had a contract, and he would not be dissuaded.
And it has not dissuaded O'Donnell from returning: last year, he admitted his initial application for bankruptcy in the high court was a "chastening experience"that had effectively ended his 30-year career.
He was photographed in Parliament Square "hefting a lump of rock" and had "crouched down in the doorway of the nearby supreme court and tried to set fire to a bundle of newspapers against the wooden doors" but was dissuaded and "scampered away".
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, claimed other vulnerable countries would be dissuaded from asking for bail-outs because they would see that "the path taken by Greece with the IMF is not an easy one".
What is increasingly hard to believe is that it can be dissuaded or prevented from getting the bomb by force.
Some years ago, a friend bought a Burberry raincoat but his wife dissuaded him from wearing it.
Indeed, Iran's leaders, reluctant belligerents, have shown that they want to be dissuaded from direct action by others putting pressure on the Taliban, possibly via Pakistan.
In the specific case of Banco de Venezuela, he can use its extensive branch network to more efficiently distribute welfare payments and subsidies.But private companies, including banks, will be further dissuaded from making new investments or take other steps to strengthen themselves in tougher economic times.
Predictions of nasty weather and impenetrable crowds seem to have dissuaded some would-be revelers.
Others have been dissuaded from applying by hidebound teachers and careers advisers, who deter them from aspiring to such things.
