How To Use Discouraged In A Sentence

Often the parent feels helpless and very discouraged and may also give up on the child which reinforces the child's feelings of inadequacy and may cause the child to retreat or regress further.
Profoundly discouraged, we ride on after this in mournful silence. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
When I wrote, imprecisely, that domestic subsidies for agricultural commodities are equivalent to protective tariffs, I was groping at the notion that in both cases (1) domestic consumers/taxpayers pay a premium above the world price and (2) that foreign producers are discouraged from entering the domestic market. The Case for Free Trade, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
According to Lawrence Will, ‘floods and freezes, wild hogs and coons, muck fires, gnats and mosquitoes, slow transportation and greedy New York buyers, all these discouraged many.’
But later, these things which some man has done because he loved you, and which you call foolish, will grow large in your life, and shine out strongly, and when you are discouraged and alone, you will take them out, and the memory of them will make you proud and happy. The Lion and the Unicorn

What factors are most likely to cause a pastor to be discouraged? Christianity Today
Many of the insanities start in this fashion; and all such practices, instead of being encouraged, should be discouraged; and all experienced and intelligent students of psychical research warn those who "dabble" in the subject against the repeated and promiscuous indulgence in such practices -- because of the dangerous, even disastrous, effects upon the mind, in many instances. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
These should be just as discouraged as the cigarette packets. The Sun
Rumours of ballot-rigging discouraged many from voting.
I was a bit discouraged with the rest of the book after such a wonderful introduction.
She was never discouraged in her enterprise.
Third, the move towards compulsory admissions to residential care should be discouraged in favour of voluntary and planned admissions.
My guess is that the DCCC discouraged her from making the kind of strong, straightforward case on the issues she would have been good at and conned or bullied her into running a cagy, deceptive campaign. Opinion Roundup: Who Gets Credit, Rahm Or Netroots?
felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem
And neither the feces of bobcats nor the urine of foxes, coyotes, and bobcats discouraged voles from attacking seedlings.
Smoking is discouraged among the students at some medical colleges.
Even the old parliamentarians hailed the return of Charles, notwithstanding it was admitted that the protectorate was a vigorous administration; that law and order were enforced; that religious liberty was proclaimed; that the rights of conscience were respected; that literature and science were encouraged; that the morals of the people were purified; that the ordinances of religion were observed; that vice and folly were discouraged; that justice was ably administered; that peace and plenty were enjoyed; that prosperity attended the English arms abroad; and that the nation was as much respected abroad as it was prosperous at home. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
She discouraged impertinent curiosity with frozen silence and there is an uneasy feeling, as one reads, that one is prying into her chosen privacy.
Any form of line dancing that encourages freewheeling self-expression must be forcefully discouraged.
Recovery takes time. Don't get discouraged. Just follow the instructions of the physical therapist.
How can you feel discouraged when sitting on a beautiful mountain meadow, looking at a high country lake with bald eagles flying around you?! Field Scrapbook
Carl Jolly met us outside, disappointed, he was still undiscouraged which is amazing when you consider the additional odds he is up against. KOLO - HomePage - Headlines
The key is to not overanalyze this election's results and don't get discouraged. Alvin McEwen: Five reasons why I am happy that the Republicans took over the House of Representatives
Adults are also discouraged from intervening in conflicts that arise between the children.
Luckily none of the 12 people who had turned up to see me had been discouraged by my unpunctuality.
A blonde or red headed man was thought to resemble an enemy Norseman and so was discouraged!
Bar soap is discouraged, not only because of the inherent sloppiness of the soap dish, but also because some organisms survive on the soap surface.
And anyone thinking of serious modernisation would be actively discouraged. Times, Sunday Times
After fluttering thus from branch to branch, like the poor birdling that cannot take its flight, discouraged by his wretched attempts at life, he plunged straight before him, hoping for nothing but a turn of luck, driving over the roads and fields, lending a hand to the farmers, sleeping in stables and garrets, or oftener in the open air; sometimes charitably sheltered in a kind man's barn, and perhaps -- oh bliss! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
She nearly made a hole in my head just now, but we must not get discouraged. Heidi
Neither of the two basic methods - distillation using the sun's heat nor the use of modern desalinisation plants - is likely to meet immediate fresh water requirements in a major refugee emergency, and is therefore strongly discouraged. 16. Water
The trick is to start small and not get discouraged.
But for girls, this practice-called 'excision'-is very dangerous and should be strongly discouraged. Chapter 32
In this way, transmission of the virus to the uninfected is discouraged, and those infected who have higher D levels will have a lower viral load to infect others. i'll post the rest in another comment Creeping Crud
Learning by rote is discouraged in this school.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. Rabindranath Tagore
Soviet Communism had discouraged travel; the old comfortably flea-ridden hans had decayed. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Young people are discouraged from playing sport in part because the facilities are terrible. Times, Sunday Times
The value of the loonie discouraged 17 per cent of Canadians from travelling outside the country while one per cent did not know or refused to answer.
Worse, a discouraged, angry, and alienated lower class is directly related to the growing debasement of our popular culture.
In a culture and a region where the old story of boy meets girl is not only frowned on, but downright discouraged, love, or at least adolescent yearnings, will often find a way.
As you push yourself to overcome inertia, you need to work against the tendency to feel discouraged and hopeless.
After a decade or so of assiduous tweezering, the brow hairs will indeed be discouraged and will not grow back.
I might get discouraged but you guys don't seem to care.
My amusements were few; the good Mrs. Putnam employed me and her daughters constantly to spin flax for shirts for the American soldiers; indolence, in America, being totally discouraged; and I likewise worked some for General Putnam, who, though not an accomplished muscadin, like our dilletantis of St. James's-street, was certainly one of the best characters in the world; His heart being composed of those noble materials which equally command respect and admiration. Memoirs of Aaron Burr
But luckily she chose to be inspired rather than discouraged by the experience.
I stood in front of them and did the ghostliest things till I was clean tired out and discouraged. Humorous Ghost Stories
In one of his letters 4 October 1841 to Captain Beaufort he sounded discouraged by the laboriousness of the work and the fact that he apparently had had no acknowledgement of the data he had sent to the Royal Society. "But They are Very, Very Wrong" « Climate Audit
The blinds pulled, by her domestic decree, half way down the windows discouraged all hope.
Personal privacy is respected and staring is discouraged, although eye contact is not avoided.
Patients and doctors are currently discouraged from investigating and treating sore throats.
A spell of tough luck discouraged him.
Obedient to his master’s mandate, the falconer was collecting his discouraged followers, and whispering into their ears — “Away, away — tace is Latin for a candle — never mind the good The Abbot
By the 1970s primary teachers were being actively discouraged from teaching these fundamental disciplines - it seems educationalists threw out the grammar along with the grammar schools.
And unfortunately, the polls make people feel discouraged.
The wives of samurai, even noblewomen, were discouraged from learning more than a syllabary system for transcribing sounds and ideas, and most were incapable of reading texts that employed Chinese ideographs.
Colin, on the other hand, became discouraged and let things slip.
I thought about opening the window and gargling back, tit for tat, but concern for my neighbors discouraged me.
Passing trade from the teeming streets is thus discouraged.
Its lobby was crowded, people discouraged by the weather sitting on fat couches or standing in talkative groups.
The lie, which soon became an untruth (for people came genuinely to believe this ungenuine account), was that Keats's sensibility, his sensitivity, the thinness of his skin, and the coagulatory thickening within his troubled mind were responsible first for his abdication, so discouraged was he by the reception of his poems, and then for his death. Keats's Afterlife
I was in the lower sixth at the time and, as a girl in a northern comprehensive, I was actively discouraged by my teachers from making an Oxford application.
I am not discouraged at all for these cases.
The experiment is, of course, an analogy for Wolfe's Dupont University, where the school's national champion basketball team is revered, and its players, all genetic freaks with, in effect, the thinking portion of their brains removed (they are discouraged from taking real courses), enjoy a "hypermanic" sex life with the eager coeds who line their paths. Cry Wolfe
Across the Atlantic, sericulture got its first push in 1609 when James I of England encouraged the production of silk (and discouraged the growing of tobacco) so he could fill English looms.
Bishop Provoost of New York, after fourteen years of service, demitted his functions in 1801, discouraged about the continuance of the church. A History of American Christianity
A lot of players get discouraged and quit.
We have had a very bad election result, we are effectively skint, our activists are discouraged and our membership is falling.
You certainly wasted studio time and resources, so one was actively discouraged.
Millet is commonly thinned in West Africa after being overplanted heavily, but this should be discouraged. Chapter 8
Nevertheless, they should not be discouraged.
And they aren't discouraged by the limited lifespan of the work. Times, Sunday Times
I read a lot but find new books are few and far between, so people are discouraged from using the mobile library.
Many a time I have stood on the broken end, where the discouraged labourers had left their very shovels and picks and trucks and had apparently fled in dismay, as if convicted of the impiousness of trying to fill the Bottomless Pit. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
They “browbeat and discouraged” the militia and presented “an example of all manner of debauchery, vice, and idleness when they lie skulking in forts,” while the country was “ravaged in their very neighborhood.” George Washington’s First War
These long-term discouraged workers are simply erased from the rolls of the unemployed. Statistical Deceptions
Don't be discouraged; it's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
Articles of any length may be submitted, although short notes of limited scope are discouraged.
- Although arable lands were generally plentiful and population densities low, achievement of higher productivity per farm family was hampered by lack of evolution of modern, improved farming techniques, by rigid and unprogressive organizational and land tenurial practices which discouraged long-term investments by external cultivators, and by absence of credit facilities to farmers and farmers 'aversion to cooperation societies. 1. Sustainability of land use systems: the potential of indigenous measures for the maintenance of soil productivity in sub-sahara african agriculture.
Please never allow yourself to get discouraged.
Don't be discouraged when your grandiose plans fail on the first attempt.
These little dogs can burrow and will demonstrate this ability in your garden unless discouraged.
Contact between the different groups was actively discouraged.
The public should be encouraged to register now instead of sitting back and hoping that the period will be extended or get discouraged because the process is slow.
A spell of tough luck discouraged him.
Certainly the glowing reviews he has received would not have discouraged the England captain and Real Madrid galactico from believing that this might at last have been his year.
The thought of how much work she had to do discouraged her.
What to do to keep from being discouraged is a tougher question. January 8th, 2005
It would be a great shame if young people such as Hu were discouraged from seeking careers in public service.
She describes her students, mostly poor and minority, as "dissed" -- "disenfranchised, discouraged and dismissed. StarTribune.com rss feed
Early marriage and procreation are no longer discouraged there.
Many believers feel inadequate and discouraged, but this is no reason for laziness or inactivity.
In a 1908 instructional book called How to Pitch, Bill Dineen says of the incurve/inshoot he used the terms interchangeably, “Speed is necessary for an inshoot … Do not become discouraged if you fail to see the ball positively change its course as it does in an outcurve … Practice will succeed in giving a sharp break to the ball, which may not amount to more than an inch or two …” The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
At 250 ppm, the oil discouraged termites from plowing through the sand.
There was something emphatic, even challenging, in his pronouncement that discouraged questioning.
Studies of fossilisation (now known as stabilisation) suggested that learners who are not encouraged to, or even discouraged from, ‘adding grammar’ are stuck in the pre-syntactic, lexical phase. L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT
Often the parent feels helpless and very discouraged and may also give up on the child which reinforces the child's feelings of inadequacy and may cause the child to retreat or regress further.
Despite my confidence, Burt still felt discouraged.
As I said at the outset of this judgment, the whole purpose of the Limitation Act is to ensure that claims are litigated promptly and that stale claims should be discouraged.
Never allow yourself to get discouraged and think that your life is insignificant and can't make a change.
It was the only time she had ever discouraged him from dangerous activities and she regretted it thereafter.
Don't be discouraged if you find relaxation procedures hard at first. Love, Medicine and Miracles
One by one, each one turned their defeated eyes upon the discouraged paramedics and stunned police officer that stood just on the opposite side of the doors.
When the discouraged perfectionist reaches a certain point, she can become ultracritical not only of herself but of others.
It was earlier referred to as 'mongolism' (based on the facial features of the affected individuals) - a term that is discouraged from being used today. Medindia Health News
If at times she was perplexingly cool, -- or "upstage," as he called it, -- he flattered himself that he knew women too well to be discouraged by these purely feminine manifestations. Quill's Window
Don't be discouraged. Every cloud has a silver lining.
Professional medical organizations have strongly discouraged members from testifying on behalf of plaintiffs.
We lost everything we had, which greatly discouraged us, and we thereupon abandoned the idea of rafting it any farther. The Life of Hon William F Cody
Figures huddled in wraps hurried past her -- the fog and dark discouraged lingering. Burning Bright
The rain discouraged us from going out.
After several unsuccessful efforts, they would become discouraged and often would begin to spit up.
Or are you discouraged by the austerity — monasticism, even — of the regime? Times, Sunday Times
The corollary of this concept is that the consumption of merit bads should be discouraged.
She nearly made a hole in my head just now, but we must not get discouraged. Heidi
Large charities with extensive staffs should be discouraged from handing responsibility for fundraising to other organisations, as if it were only ancillary to their work. Times, Sunday Times
The use of guar gum for weight loss should be discouraged because of its lack of efficacy.
Girls are sometimes discouraged from studying subjects like engineering and physics.
Occasionally, sectarian concerns discouraged both Protestants and Catholics from attending branches.
Stars are discouraged from playing unlikeable characters (and Tracy Flick was certainly that).
This book is remarkable in that it profoundly challenges church life and personal life so gently and winsomely that the reader is not put off or discouraged by unreachably high ideals.
In recent years the concept of the auteur, as the main creative force behind a film, has been discouraged in Australia.
They actively discouraged emigration, fearing the loss of their workforce and tenantry.
And anyone thinking of serious modernisation would be actively discouraged. Times, Sunday Times
Part of the reason I think folks in Louisiana feel discouraged is that we have not heard this White House or this president even mention it. Archive 2007-07-01
Burning the wood or using its sawdust and ash is also strongly discouraged.
As such, two pricing tiers evolved, a higher price that encouraged rental and discouraged purchase, and a lower price that encouraged purchase, known as the sell-through price around $20. The Movie Business Book, Third Edition
Spectatorial passivity is strictly discouraged by such a mode of filmmaking. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Starting a literary magazine is an adventure not for the faint-hearted or the easily discouraged. I Am Sorry to Inform You
The event is a non-party political event and party political banners or placards are discouraged.
As schooling became somewhat more standardized over time, these prescriptivist grammarians became almost Biblical in proportion, even to the point that during the Colonial period the aboriginals were discouraged from speaking their own language because it was uncouth, uncivilized, imperfect, and perhaps most importantly, non-Christian.
All her strength drained out when she was discouraged in what she was doing.
I was thoroughly discouraged, so I turned away and flopped dejectedly onto my bed.
But when I am discouraged or downcast I need only fling open the door of my closet, and there, hidden behind everything else, hangs the mantle of Michel de Montaigne, smelling slightly of camphor.
Not discouraged, Johnson decided to build a ' new ' line across the Superior Avenue viaduct to Public Square.
Noodling on the mine sites around town is discouraged.
They will be discouraged from imposing penalties if people rent out drives for parking. Times, Sunday Times
The prospective new owners of Liverpool could be discouraged from buying the club if next week's court action fails to force the deal through and the club is then placed into administration, incurring a nine‑point penalty from the Premier League. Liverpool sale may collapse if nine points are deducted
Girls are sometimes discouraged from studying subjects like engineering and physics.
Don't be discouraged; it's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
Henry himself had no reason to be seriously discouraged.
Third, the move towards compulsory admissions to residential care should be discouraged in favour of voluntary and planned admissions.
There is anecdotal evidence that it may well have discouraged some victims from reporting. Times, Sunday Times
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Bob Loder was a swarthy, heavily built, square-faced man with a blotched skin and unhealthy pallor and small, discouraged eyes. She Closed Her Eyes
But he was highly sensitive, easily discouraged by setbacks; and in 1915 resigned from his union post to convalesce from alcoholism.
The ability to select and deselect the files from the preview menu was hardly friendly, and I was initially left quite discouraged.
Those who work toward liberation might easily feel discouraged by the small amount of progress made.
Now those good people that used to company with his wife began to be amazed and discouraged, also he would frown and glout [36] upon them as if he abhorred, the appearance of them, so that in little time he drove all good company from her, and made her sit solitary by herself. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
As a girl in a small Italian town in the 1870s, Montessori excelled in elementary school and wished to continue her education, which girls were discouraged from doing at the time.
He was a rather taciturn individual who discouraged chatter in the theatre.
Lose momentum and your forward thrust will be curtailed. If you ingest the animosity and acrimonious threats of the nay sayers you will be discouraged, and indeed that is their controlling motive.
I believe we all discouraged that, but there was a name waiting for her. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
The end result of using this method is that learners leave the classroom discouraged.
She said the practice had become a crutch for foreigners and discouraged integration. The Sun
I'm discouraged, I'm tired, I'm crabby, I'm sad, I'm ridiculously disappointed in myself, and I'm scared.
These should be just as discouraged as the cigarette packets. The Sun
Thus swimming should not be discouraged in people with epilepsy or any other physical disability.
Things were going well so far; I felt undiscouraged; after a moment's reflection I asked: "If you had a brother, would you like mashed bean sprouts? Can We Save the Dying Art of Conversation ?
Bonding social capital within specific communities is seen as injurious to development as a whole, and therefore needs to be discouraged.
When out of work and still undiscouraged, he has been forced to "hit the road" between large cities in his quest for a job. THE TRAMP
I was once described as a shiksa, which I thought was something you were discouraged from having if you were Jewish because of its origins and the fact that it was usually served on a stick. A Hanukkah (Chanukah?) 2010 wish from your goy best friend
I have lived in rented accommodation where we welcomed the rain seeping through the ceiling because it discouraged the rats.
If I were to allow myself indulgence in algolagnic reveries they would even now excite me without difficulty; but I have systematically discouraged them, so that they give me little or no practical trouble. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
So the cultivation of Spanish bluebells is being discouraged. Times, Sunday Times
To keep myself from getting discouraged, I kept reminding myself that all this was only temporary.
One explanation is that England's poor showing has discouraged spectators. Times, Sunday Times
He was discouraged, ready to abandon ship.
She was never discouraged or disappointed during her stay.
Though scantily fed, and often utterly discouraged by failure, they were still making a noble fight for existence.
They are chosen by the people, by secret suffrages, and they are discouraged from speaking with anyone in private.
The end result of using this method is that learners leave the classroom discouraged.
Discouraged, he gave up and became an administrator.
There is anecdotal evidence that it may well have discouraged some victims from reporting. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike in any other election in the world, visible campaigning for the conclave is discouraged. USATODAY.com - Which qualities cardinals will look for in the next pope
It may well be that some taxpayers are being discouraged from filling in forms simply because these forms verge on the incomprehensible.
It matters little that the teacher exhorts; the unmotivated students become discouraged quickly, they quit, and become our failures.
At age 11 my attempt at sewing a pink ruffled miniskirt turned out unwearable, and the experience left me so discouraged that I didn't tackle another sewing project for many years.
By contrast, before 1950 the use of the term tornado in forecasts was discouraged because of a fear that predicting them would cause panic. The Seattle Times
Discouraged I walked on towards home, bags of heavy shopping in my hands.
“An enterprising UK resident” I suspect that enterprising is quite illegal in the UK or at least officially discouraged. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Green Business Model
Even bandanas, which could be used as masks, are discouraged.
The former were to be policed and controlled, the latter discouraged through the disciplines of increasingly marketized welfare.
Cortes discouraged the tendency in education to think in dualisms, suggesting that media educators learn to re-frame questions so students understand they are not simply being charged with finding examples of forgone conclusions.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that women should be discouraged from having so many so-called keepsake ultrasounds. CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2002
In addition, the pamphlet discouraged police brutality and described how to obtain federal troops quickly.
Moreover, if one-way systems are introduced, cycle use is discouraged and safety is decreased by the increased vehicle speeds.
Albeit he has failed twice, he is not discouraged.
Although it is officially discouraged, there is some hiring along tribal lines.
The search for legal loopholes would be discouraged. Times, Sunday Times
Lose momentum and your forward thrust will be curtailed. If you ingest the animosity and acrimonious threats of the nay sayers you will be discouraged, and indeed that is their controlling motive.
Websites are supposed to be sticky, they are supposed to change often enough that users are drawn back and, once there, discouraged from leaving.
What factors are most likely to cause a pastor to be discouraged? Christianity Today
After searching everywhere in vain they became discouraged and beat the drums for him.
It made her feel discouraged, like if you took the word apart into two sections of dis and couraged. The Higher Power of Lucky
Smoking is actively discouraged in the university.
Be aware of situations that depress you or that cause you to feel lonely, bored, frustrated, or discouraged.
It may have been that the request for the gun discouraged them, or it may have been for other reasons, but in their wisdom they never appeared.
The notion that someone like Évariste Galois or Emmy Noether and they really do need to be mentioned in the same breath might be out there, but bored to tears by a math class they comprehended long ago or discouraged by various factors, is really astonishing to behold. Archive 2008-09-01
She was discouraged in her marriage.

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