Sentence examples for lead in discouraging from inspiring English sources

Most Palestinians want European governments to discourage investment in Israel and to impose economic sanctions on it, arguing that Europe took such steps against South Africa under apartheid.German officials now toy with the idea of following Britain's lead in discouraging the import of produce from sources that are deemed illegal.

The girls I confided in discouraged me.

Friday's jobs report led to discouraging forecasts for the rest of the year, given the slowdown in both job and output growth in recent months.

In the following quote, a therapist reflects on how risk management policies in hospital led staff to discourage independent walking by inpatients.

But scorekeeping is based in manipulation, and can lead to a hostile environment, discouraging collaboration in favor of division and contempt.

Clinical studies, however, lead to very contradictory, predominantly discouraging results [ 13, 14, 16, 21, 24, 25].

It's discouraging in a way.

Such rules, he says, lead to discrimination and discourage testing.

Fiddling with the rules leads to uncertainty, which discourages investment.The endless tinkering by politicians also leads to a lobbying arms race in which the winners are not the best companies but those with the best political connections.

This year's production surge in turn has led to a 12% decline in prices that, while possibly discouraging poppy planting next year, may make the drug more attractive this year to Afghanistan's several million opium and heroin addicts.

These results, combined with previous studies demonstrating either lack of benefit or increased harm, have led many experts to discourage the routine use of the PAC in patients with ALI [ 2, 3].