"It is our duty to discourage any players at any level from acting in such a deplorable manner.
This puts a real crimp in governments' desire, if not duty, to discourage smoking.
Upon review of our personality profiles and piles of personal baggage, they felt it their duty to discourage us from further pursuing the sacred vows of matrimony.
In time, most towns and cities instituted a night watch, consisting of either a single man or a patrol, whose duties were to discourage thieves, keep a sharp eye out for fires, and make sure that doors were locked.
At present the EU is trying to agree on minimal levels of duty, if only to discourage cigarette smuggling.
"The common & continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it," Burris read, haltingly, on the floor Monday afternoon.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.... [T]he common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
"I consider it to be my public duty to make it a stiff sentence intended to discourage others from yielding to similar temptation".
In the mid-19th century, the American Medical Association's code of ethics stated that physicians had a "sacred duty" to "avoid all things which have a tendency to discourage the patient and depress his spirits". But times have changed.
The New York State Department of Health is seeking an agency to handle creative and media planning duties for a television, radio, print and online campaign to discourage children 12 to 17 from smoking.
