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However, when these images are released into the public, Seifullah says, such disclosures can especially discourage women from running for office or seeking other high-profile positions.

What followed was a very strange and discouraging series of events.

It seemed to me a miracle that I never heard a discouraging word from my editor, Susan Murcko.

Doing so perpetuates the stigma of mental disorder, discouraging persons with mental disorders from seeking care.

In politics every candidate wants to build a sense of inevitability, inspiring his admirers and discouraging his detractors.

So it is discouraging that conservatives may not even want to take the first step down that path.

There was a great deal of heart-burning, and the camp was the prey of winged rumours, most of them discouraging ones.

She had written sweethearts at the first draft, but the word looked wrong somehow in a letter that was meant to be discouraging.

Burnside's repulse at Fredericksburg was followed by a discouraging retreat.

He was eminently a peace man, discouraging wars and violence.

Some of these belong to the general class of discouraging people.