It is discouraging smoking.

Tom tried to discourage me from doing that.

And the third one is Do free bed nets discourage future purchase?

The international community has a shared interest in discouraging such activities.

Hence, the critics are calling for limits on competition to discourage innovation.

Additionally, there have been other, specific actions meant to discourage countries from developing nuclear arms.

That included offering their good offices and discouraging families from searching for relatives who had disappeared.

For Hume shared the ... Tory belief that the Stuarts were no more high handed than their Tudor predecessors.

It sought to discourage non conformity to the Church of England, and passed several acts to secure Anglican dominance.

Ataturk, rather like Nicolas Sarkozy, was very keen to discourage the wearing of a veil, in Turkey, to modernize it.

Apply self regulation and accept feedback We need to discourage inappropriate activity to ensure that systems can continue to function well.

This alone should deter humans from keeping primates as pets.

Although the bill aims to discourage hacking, netizens fear it will severely limit Internet freedom.

Rules can discourage an undue focus on short term gains and a disregard for longer term costs .

Other terms include female genital cutting (FGC) and female genital mutilation cutting (FGM C), preferred by those who work with practitioners.

The positive effects of expenditure restraint and the continued fall in interest payments will outweigh the negative effects of modest economic growth rates and some planned tax cuts .

First , it should ensure broad access to the system , which means that it should not discourage smaller institutions from direct participation .

Over the medium term, according to Wolf, countries need to put in place regulatory measures that lower debt levels and discourage overleveraging.

Some said , however , that it could lead to higher excess reserves and discourage use of the averaging provision .

Targeting Children 404 will undoubtedly discourage many LGBT youths in Russia from seeking support during adolescence, when they often need it most.

Because money and precious metals were the only source of riches, there was a limited quantity of resources to be shared between countries, therefore, tariffs should be used to encourage exports (bringing more money into the country) and discourage imports (sending money abroad).

In June 2001 , the ECB , which participates in both the BCBS and the Banking Advisory Committee ( the EU forum assisting the European Commission in the preparation of the new Community banking legislation ) in an observer capacity , submitted its comments on the consultative documents issued by the BCBS 3 and the European Commission . The ECB supported the general thrust of the proposed regulatory reform on the basis that it would contribute to strengthening financial stability .

Last but not least, unexpected financial problems which lower oil prices could catalyze would interrupt US growth and discourage the Fed from tightening.

These reforms aim to prevent or discourage the theft of telecommunication equipment because they give authorities the right to deactivate or block lines that are related to theft or loss.

promoting the usage of efficient card schemes at the point of sale or at least not discouraging their use in comparison with cash ( e.g. by exclusively offering discounts for cash payment ) .

...since September 2012, a concerted effort to encourage support for Buddhist shops and to discourage Buddhists from patronizing establishments with Muslim ownership and refuse sale to Muslims

Moreover , labour market regulations should not discourage firms from offering jobs , or workers from accepting them .

Allowing citizens to choose how to donate may help to tackle corruption in countries where politicians often misappropriate ODA, while discouraging wasteful or impractical projects.

Both sides sought Kepler's astrological advice, an opportunity he used to deliver conciliatory political advice (with little reference to the stars, except in general statements to discourage drastic action).

And the second thing is confidence, that we can see how game playing and reward structures make people braver, make them more willing to take risks, more willing to take on difficulty, harder to discourage.

Increasing encounters between bears and humans and increasing damage to property led to an aggressive campaign to discourage bears from relying on human food or interacting with people and their property.

In order to keep Lolita from going to the police, Humbert tells her that if he is arrested, she will become a ward of the state and lose all her clothes and belongings.

However , this should not discourage , or even prevent , any bank or banking community from offering SEPA direct debits to their customers at the national or banking community level at an earlier stage , provided that this occurs in full compliance with the SEPA Direct Debit Rulebook .

In the view of the Eurosystem , this should , however , neither discourage nor prevent any bank or banking community from offering SEPA direct debits to their customers before 1 November 2009 , for example , at the national level only .

Moreover, Doing Business helps to break down barriers particularly in developing countries that can discourage the establishment of small and medium size enterprises, provide opportunities for corruption, and drive small business owners to the informal sector.

But the phrasing in Growth in a Time of Debt also misled European Commissioner Olli Rehn and many others to argue that when government debt reaches 80 90 of GDP, it starts to crowd out activity.

Without even the price of a stamp to deter the prolix, the unmanageable tsunami of e mail threatens to drown the world in information, unless the servers, switches, and wires that sustain the system burn out first.

The operation, held annually and comprising 5 10 combat vessels, 1 2 auxiliary ships, and 2 4 maritime patrol aircraft, includes forces from 26 European navies, and has undoubtedly helped to discourage, if not end, pirate attacks.

He recently received the support of famous people such as James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Edgar Morin, Jan Kounen, Nicolas Hulot, Danielle Mitterrand, Mino Cinelu and launched an international petition in 7 languages against the proposed Belo Monte dam project on his official website.

Obama, for his part, catered to economic nationalists by attacking Romney as an outsourcing pioneer and calling him an outsourcer in chief as if outsourcing were evil, could be stopped, or Obama himself had done much to discourage it.

Member States and Community institutions should not promote but rather discourage and strictly control the issuance , holding and use of non legal tender euro banknotes and coins , in particular prior to 1 January 2002 . Whereas the efforts to prevent counterfeiting concern both the Community , by virtue of its competence in respect of the single currency , and the Member States , by virtue of their competence in the sphere of criminal law and policies to combat organised crime

Structural impediments , triggered by a rigid legal and regulatory environment , high taxes on labour and rigidities associated with wage regulations , still prevent or discourage far too many people from actively participating in the labour market and thus keep participation rates too low and unemployment too high .

The euro is also expected to boost the Single Market i.e. remove the remaining barriers to the circulation of goods , services and people by enhancing price transparency and discouraging price discrimination .