Sentence examples for intends to discourage from inspiring English sources

The Koppelingswet ('linking act') of 1998 intends to discourage illegal residency in the Netherlands by linking the usage of public services, such as welfare, housing benefits, student grants and health insurance, to legal status.

Surely Florida officials do not intend to discourage voting.

But voter-ID laws aren't intended to discourage fraud – they are intended to discourage voting, and they have worked.

The change is intended to discourage medically unjustified visits.

The prohibition is also intended to discourage shopkeepers from asking for favors.

The G.P.S. was intended to discourage a rogue driver from ripping off a passenger.

The policy was intended to discourage outsider nations from seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

Rate increases are intended to discourage borrowing and spending, thus diluting demand, particularly among consumers.

He said it was intended to discourage foreign corporations from buying American companies.

These are two of the emptiest slogans in current American politics, intended to discourage serious debate.

Teachers' union officials said they in no way intended to discourage voting.