But Ms. O'Donnell refuses to be dissuaded and pushes forward.
They were dissuaded, and instead fell in behind the Afghan ranks.
But Felix is not to be dissuaded and gives it another go.
But new young people arrive every day, and the book continues to find readers who are not dissuaded — and may even be encouraged — by its dismissal by critics.
The main way outsiders are dissuaded and beach access is limited in many of the 36 coastal municipalities is through user fees (read: parking) charged to non-residents.
In Washington, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the overall commander in the region, "has thoughts about a way to dissuade and deter" Iraqi use of chemical weapons, but added, "We'll leave that for the future".
"Our mission is to protect, dissuade and reassure," he said in clipped tones, as his men from the 3rd Marine Infantry Regiment, normally based in Brittany, snaked past pavement cafes, tour groups and couples kissing, scanning all around for bombs or terrorists.
He added that Russia and China are also selling surface-to-air missile defense systems to smaller nations, and planes like the F-22 are needed "to dissuade and deter other countries so we never have to fight".
Luc Chatel, of the rightwing Union for a Popular Movement party (UMP) and Nicolas Sarkozy's former education minister, said spanking should be like "nuclear dissuasion" – a weapon that "dissuades and is never used".
But his student could not be dissuaded, and, anyway, had already done nearly enough to start writing his dissertation.
So, for example, if there are violent unrests in the banlieues, we are called to train psychologists and sociologists to devise tools to calm people down, and urbanists to design neighbourhoods that would dissuade and impede outbursts of rebellion.
