But it added that public executions are often carried out as a way of discouraging interest in what the regime considers corrupting foreign influence, which can include using a cellphone, religious proselytizing or viewing pornography.
During the first day of hearings on tax shelters and the use of penalties and interest to discourage sham transactions, Lindy L. Paull, chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation, testified that "there is not a meaningful penalty facing someone who enters these transactions".
While more than one-third of the non-URM students responded that none of their courses discouraged their interest in premedical studies, only one of the 29 URM students reported this absence of discouraging courses.
But it was just kind of discouraging.
A National Institutes of Health director spent millions of agency dollars for his laboratory at the institute and continued as an expert consultant in asbestos cases despite conflict-of-interest rules discouraging that, Congressional investigators have said.
But many of NTV's leading journalists continue to resist the takeover, and its former owner, Vladimir Gusinsky, has been trying to interest the American media entrepreneur Ted Turner in buying a large minority interest to discourage Kremlin bullying.
It remains unclear to what extent the State Department's near silence on Khadija Ismayilova's detention is due to string-pulling behind the scenes by former diplomats who now have financial ties with Baku's regime and thus a vested interest in discouraging any rocking of the bilateral boat.
He was, I thought, at once encouraged by the commercial attention the BACCH filter was beginning to receive — it has become available in what's called a Jambox, and there is lots of Chinese interest — and discouraged by the realization that the "high end" of music listening was very small.
It remains high be-cause current interest rates discourage the creation of job-producing domestic businesses.
It remains high because current interest rates discourage the creation of job-producing domestic businesses.
