| I mean it is designed to dissuade young people from starting with illicit drugs. |
| I had, of course, tried to dissuade him, if only for his own safety, but he would have none of it. |
| When she had made up her mind on something it was quite hard to dissuade her from the course she had chosen. |
| With some difficulty, we managed to dissuade our left-leaning daughter from buying pint-sized T-shirts for our preschool grandchildren. |
| For if income tax dissuades the living rich from being rich, then the death tax can only dissuade the dead rich from dying. |
| While their fiercely offbeat sounds may initially dissuade, a bit of perseverance can reap immense rewards. |
