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Dissuaded by the lack of basic services and the growing insurgency in Afghanistan, the numbers of returnees have dwindled over the years.

From Time • Mar. 27, 2012

Dissuaded by an uproar within the party, he reinstated Manatt and installed Lance as general chairman of the Mondale campaign instead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dissuaded from approaching the Wall by Orthodox protests, the Reform Jews suspended their service.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dissuaded just in time by passing sight of a cemetery, he wanders into the stateroom of a Russian princess.

From Time Magazine Archive

Roderick eyed him with the vague and absent look which had lately become habitual to his face, and repeated "Dissuaded?"

From Roderick Hudson by James, Henry