"dissuading" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb meaning to discourage or persuade someone or something not to do something. Example: The teacher tried to dissuade the students from skipping class.
Similar sentiments were expressed in Toxteth, in Liverpool, where the fact that rioting was more contained – compared with London, Birmingham and Manchester – was partly attributed to community cohesion and an outreach drive by youth workers who toured the streets, dissuading people from getting involved.
But American pressure is dissuading an increasing number of foreign firms, particularly those with interests in the United States, from doing business with the Islamic Republic.
But dissuading women from having abortions is not an unlimited power.
Domenico Siniscalco, a former senior bureaucrat, ran Italy's finance ministry with skill and vigour, dissuading the prime minister from his more perilous adventures in the field of public finances.But on Wednesday September 21st, barely a year after entering the government, Mr Siniscalco resigned.
Mr McGinnis, who teaches law at Northwestern University, argues that IT can hugely increase people's power to evaluate the consequences of their collective decisions, dissuading them from making foolish choices and helping them make wise ones.
Dissuading countries with nuclear programmes, or that want nuclear programmes, from reprocessing their fuel to produce plutonium is one of the core priorities in anti-proliferation work (the other is trying to keep newly nuclear countries from developing their own enrichment systems).
And that would give Turkey's friends a fresh reason to promote Turkish membership of the European Union.The most immediate benefit, though, was meant to be dissuading Barack Obama from keeping his campaign promise to call the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 "genocide".
Domenico Siniscalco, a former academic and bureaucrat, ran Italy's finance ministry with skill and vigour, dissuading the prime minister from his more perilous adventures in the field of public finances.But on September 21st, barely a year after entering the government, he submitted his resignation.
But a fierce effort has begun in the states to ruin it by dissuading young people from signing up to insurance exchanges, in the hope that the system collapses under the cost of covering only those who will need plenty of expensive treatment.
Advocating constructive intervention and dissuading America from acting impulsively to avoid adding to "the very sectarian divide that it wants to narrow" is worthwhile.
Iran denies such ambitions; Israel is disinclined to wait and find out.Mr Obama hopes to buy time by dissuading Russia from delivering a missile-defence system that Iran has ordered and whose deployment could precipitate an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear sites.
