dissuasion
Example Sentences
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The dissuasion commissions that were supposed to encourage people to seek help no longer play much of a role.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023
Initially, the employers countered the organizing campaigns with criticism of unions and other means of dissuasion.
From New York Times • May 22, 2023
He previously sued CNN, accusing the network of playing a part in a "campaign of dissuasion in the form of libel and slander against" him, seeking $475 million in punitive damages.
From Salon • May 4, 2023
That glaring disconnect, between official dissuasion and on-the-ground leniency, has been received by Haitian and other migrants as an invitation to take their chances on reaching the U.S. border.
From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2021
Hunt’s dissuasion was of no avail—I refused to visit Shelley that I might have my own unfettered scope;—and after all, I shall have the Reputation of Hunt’s élève.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
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