| These fears may no longer be dissuading students from going abroad, as more juniors than usual will be studying abroad spring semester. |
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| We went on, stopping occasionally to browse, and I was successfully dissuading myself from buying anything when I saw it. |
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| All these reasons undoubtedly played a part in dissuading potential perjurers. |
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| If nothing else, aren't we dissuading other scientists from coming forward? |
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| Price, maintenance costs and traffic are the principal factors dissuading people from buying a car. |
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| Ferry said that traditional attitudes towards women's roles in the family had an intangible effect, dissuading women from scientific work. |
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| Her family feared for her life and tried dissuading her from contesting the elections. |
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| Jones claims it is dissuading people and families from England from even considering moving to Scotland. |
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| The pictures on their packaging are actually dissuading me from buying a product. |
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| Pharmacy owners agree that the current uncertainty is dissuading some chemists from investing in staff training and drug programmes that require intensive staff input. |
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| The MP said the government's policy of creating large dental centres away from most people's homes is dissuading potential patients from registering. |
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| Though this measure is mainly intended to enhance democratic accountability and informed policy debates, it also helps dissuading fraud. |
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| There is also the midwife who hopes to assuage the suffering of young girls by gently dissuading their parents from resorting to the procedure. |
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| It also had the effect of dissuading people from buying long guns knowing that they would have the ongoing cost of registration. |
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| Indeed, the usual pressure on a minister will end up dissuading him from requesting the necessary environmental assessments. |
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| The Russian authorities believe that this visit by Rice aimed at dissuading Kazakhstan from siding with them over South Ossetia. |
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| In this context, the presence of cameras does not appear to discourage violent crimes, often committed irrationally, but it does seem to be effective in dissuading petty theft. |
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| There are a number of programmes aimed at keeping students in school and dissuading them from dropping out due to such factors as poverty and lack of interest. |
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| It therefore seems rather unlikely that the effect on costs is causing major price increases, especially as the somewhat subdued economic situation should be a dissuading factor from that point of view. |
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| Similarly, weak accounting, monitoring and supervision mechanisms combined with lack of external audit mechanisms and poor judiciary reduce the opportunity for detecting and dissuading fraud. |
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| So long as there was no system capable of dissuading people from perpetrating crimes, they would go on committing their outrages with total impunity. |
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| Eventually, a price must be established at a level which has the dual effect of dissuading carbon emissions while encouraging investment in the development of viable, new, clean technologies. |
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| The law places a substantial reporting burden on foreign financial institutions, dissuading them from marketing and providing cross-border services to customers resident in Sweden. |
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| Culture can play an important role in preventing the development of a terrorist mentality, in dissuading would-be terrorists and in cutting them off from wider support. |
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| Mali is no exception as regards the reluctance of governments to introduce strict environmental legislation for fear of dissuading foreign investors. |
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| But dissuading women from having abortions is not an unlimited power. |
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| Shortly thereafter, the Leicester City Council launched a campaign aimed at dissuading Ugandan Asians from migrating to the city. |
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| It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it. |
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