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Lindquist said some parts of Wednesday’s court opinion will be discouraging to the community, but emphasized that overall people were held accountable and served time and that his office sent a message.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2014

To dream of a city council, foretells that your interests will clash with public institutions and there will be discouraging outlooks for you.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman

To send them away will be discouraging, and to open an University without Mathematics or Natural Philosophy would bring on us ridicule and disgrace.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

"That spiny affair will be discouraging to visitors!"

From Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)