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However, more recent efforts to dissuade asylum seekers have failed.

Petro said the new planes will be used to dissuade "aggression against Colombia, wherever it may come from."

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“It massively cut payments because they knew that this was a moment where she was going to be proceeding with an appeal, and that they wanted to essentially dissuade defense counsel from participating,” Barlow said.

According to POLITICO, Newsom’s proposal was first conceived as a bluff to try to dissuade Texas legislators from going through with their plan.

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He told Eisman that his main fear was that the U.S. economy would strengthen, and dissuade hedge funds from placing bigger bets against the subprime mortgage market.

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