Sentence examples for less discouraging from inspiring English sources

Regional figures -- which include New York City, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Nassau and Suffolk -- are a little less discouraging.

It's hand-holding that might make grizzled veterans cluck — but it does make stumbling through your beginning months a lot less discouraging.

The modern version of this idea is more elaborate but no less discouraging.

Yet experts say the results of the study are more complicated, and less discouraging, than they might seem at first glance.

Looking for a distraction longer-lasting than a laughing baby/snoring dog combo, but a little less discouraging than a dude solving a Rubik's Cube while juggling?

Researchers have found that having a greater sense of self-worth leads people to work harder and get less discouraged by setbacks.

Or that members of the public interested in reporting crimes may have been less discouraged by the protest than by the NYPD's apparent practice of downgrading major crimes.

Economists have often advocated taxing consumption rather than income, on the grounds that consumption taxes do less to discourage saving, investment and economic growth.

After all, husbands know their wives better than the government does and thereby do less to discourage women from getting back to work than government benefit rules do.

What the authorities did encourage — or did less to discourage — were printmaking and other forms of graphic communication that, in theory at least, could be more broadly accessible to, and edifying for, the masses.

And since marginal rates would be untouched (or reduced), such a reform would do less to discourage them from creating wealth.In Europe, where tax systems are more efficient, one option would be to shift more of the burden from income to property, which would collect more from the rich but have less impact on their willingness to take risks.