Tough on Davos means discouraging people from being there.
Energy officials maintained in a press report that the response was "by no means discouraging".
Recognising work-life balance – that means discouraging everyone from emailing outside work hours.
They refer to this precautionary mind set with another bit of jargon, "anchoring inflationary expectations," which means discouraging workers and employers from engaging in a wage-price spiral by persuading them that inflation will not shoot up.
"However, we are by no means discouraged.
And it means discouraging plastic grass that retains heat and doesn't hold water like healthy soil does.
That could mean discouraging crime rather than developing better programs for ex-offenders; encouraging marriage rather than coping with the ill-effects of single-parent families and poverty; encouraging and rewarding educational progress, rather than providing ever more remedial course work.
Some folks may retort that being environmentally friendly should not have to mean discouraging the American way of life, of property and wealth acquisition, and that being pro-environment should not be equated with anti-capitalism.
Some bicyclists have resorted to inventive means to discourage the incursions.
Roman emperors such as Tiberius (reigned 14 37 ce) and Caligula (reigned 37 41 ce) used banishment, expropriation of property, and execution as means to discourage opposition to their rule.
