Sentence examples for served to discourage from inspiring English sources

His detention, in spite of Western media pressure, served to discourage other Communist cadres from reactivating their cause under cover of exercising their democratic rights.

This common-sense verdict has served to discourage police forces from invading the privacy of consenting adults – their efforts were made a laughing stock whenever Cynthia appeared on television or wrote books.

In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Committee criticised the UK because the "practical application of the law of libel has served to discourage critical media reporting on matters of serious public interest, adversely affecting the ability of scholars and journalists to publish their work, including through the phenomenon known as 'libel tourism'".

Dr. Chomsky's position has "only served to discourage interest in the topic among theoretical linguists," writes Dr. Frederick J. Newmeyer, last year's president of the Linguistic Society of America, in "Language Evolution," a book of essays being published this month by Oxford University Press in England.

This group finds the information too technical, and it seemed that the plethora of information served to discourage potential buyers.

These new restrictions, combined with issues with basic tourist infrastructure like Havana Airport's 'bursting at the seams', less-than-first class hotel accommodations and even difficulties for tourists getting cash served to discourage U.S. travelers and airlines alike.

The news coverage that is provided too often serves to discourage or misdirect the public.

The public nature of the market may also serve to discourage swindlers.

Politicized interest in marginalized people, he says, serves to discourage playwrights from evoking the specifics of discrimination and oppression.

To the Editor: Re "The Tyranny of the 2nd Home" (May 18): I hope your article on vacation homes serves to discourage would-be homesteaders.

"This unprecedented hike in dental charges will only serve to discourage the patients that are most in need of care," he said.