discouraging

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Discouraging opener for the Cardinals, followed up by another tough road trip … UCF 35-31.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022

Discouraging public worship, warned Metropolitan Longin, a senior churchman in Saratov, a region in southwestern Russia, only revived painful memories of Soviet-era repression.

From New York Times • May 5, 2020

Nunes, who last year cosponsored legislation titled the Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act, has a hard road ahead to winning the suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2019

My friend Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine calls this “bonkers,” and The Post’s Aaron Blake sees “ridiculousness” in the lawsuit, particularly given Nunes’s co-sponsorship of a bill called the Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2019

Discouraging the use of cloth, paper, and wax flowers and painted weeds in the home.

From The Teaching of Art Related to the Home Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics by Education, Federal Board for Vocational