Sentence examples for measures to discourage from inspiring English sources

The government is to look at other measures to discourage excessive drinking.

China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births.

Liberal Democrat Caroline Pidgeon and Green Sian Berry are the mayoral runners advocating measures to discourage cars.

Pakistani officials, eager to accelerate the homeward flow, have taken measures to discourage refugees from doubling back.

And in recent months America's Congress has been mulling a series of measures to discourage similar speculation in oil markets.

Her manifesto is similarly positive (see p41), and includes measures to discourage driving, such as a levy on some parking spaces and changes to congestion charging.

The rules made permanent an emergency measure to discourage the practice of "naked" short-selling, a move that had been expected.

Morrow called on the judge to consider the sentence as a preventative measure, to discourage another leak on the scale of Manning's disclosures to WikiLeaks, which amounted in total to more than 700,000 classified documents.

Meanwhile, Hawaiian lawmakers have proposed their own measure to discourage "birthers," by adding a $100 charge to anyone desiring a copy of President Obama's birth records.

School police have emphasized the latter point as a safety measure to discourage the targeting of students walking to and from school.

But they are also taking measures meant to discourage attendance.