Use "dissuade" in a sentence

1. I tried to dissuade her from leaving.

2. I think he tried to dissuade me.

3. Some of our men tried to dissuade me.

4. I tried to dissuade her from getting married.

5. To dissuade me from going to the Monastery.

6. I don't want to dissuade the other hunters.

7. Doctors had tried to dissuade patients from smoking.

8. Whiston wrote: “No worldly motives whatever . . . shall dissuade me.”

9. But it does not dissuade me from my course.

10. I was trying to dissuade them from doing so.

11. Father tried hard to dissuade him from getting married.

12. I did attempt to dissuade him, but without success.

13. You be my friend now and do not dissuade me.

14. At last the Sun gave up trying to dissuade him.

15. I tried to dissuade him from giving up his job.

16. He considered emigrating, but his family managed to dissuade him.

17. So he tried to dissuade Jesus from pursuing such a course.

18. The parents tried to dissuade their son from marrying the girl.

19. The police managed to dissuade him from jumping off the building.

20. This all goes to dissuade consultants in the major firms from leaving.

21. From all sides came letters, messages, and telegrams attempting to dissuade Gandhi.

22. Cajolery definition: flattery intended to persuade synonyms: palaver, flattery, blandishment antonyms: dissuade

23. I tried to dissuade her from investing her money in stocks and shares.

24. Chichester set off once more in spite of his friends'attempts to dissuade him.

25. You tried to dissuade him from telling that particular story, in his own interests.

26. It's difficult to dissuade a man who's decided he has nothing to live for.

27. Leapor is attempting to dissuade her friend from a particular marriage through generalized arguments.

28. Antonyms for Befriend include befoe, block, defriend, discourage, dissuade, harm, hinder, hurt, ignore and injure

29. The immediate impact of this event was to dissuade other prelates from publicly defending the king.

30. Basilisk specializes in fried chicken, but don't let that dissuade you, they also have veggie options

31. So methods have been developed to dissuade you from wandering off to somebody else's cash register.

32. For a moment she regretted that she hadn't tried harder to dissuade Rob from his plan.

33. Most of the bishops did their best to dissuade their clergy from subscribing any such addresses.

34. Ten were terrified at seeing the giantlike inhabitants and tried to dissuade Israel from entering the land.

35. The good old man might dissuade him as he would , he did not listen to his words .

36. In other words, it might dissuade worthy lawsuits even as it fails to protect against outlandish ones.

37. I'm not trying to dissuade you, but please make sure you think long and hard before you decide.

38. People from public health services tried to dissuade him, citing bad epidemiology and a waste of important supplies.

39. So strong was Job’s faith in the resurrection that even the threat of death did not dissuade him.

40. 24 If he does — and Taiwan is lobbying hard and expensively to dissuade him — that may further unsettle America.

41. Frankie had seen it before and thought I wouldn't like it and tried to dissuade me from going in.

42. (Ac 21:13) We never want to dissuade others from pursuing a self-sacrificing course in their service to Jehovah.

43. Taken together with the evidence of Sallust’s Greek models, Lactantius’ adaptation should dissuade critics from Athetizing inpudicus adul- ter ganeo

44. When Eunice’s mother found out that she was studying the Bible, she had the school principal try to dissuade her.

45. People from public health services tried to dissuade him(sentence dictionary), citing bad epidemiology and a waste of important supplies.

46. The females are obviously well aware of this, as they try hard to dissuade other females from joining their chosen male.

47. It is difficult to dissuade a Bloodhound from doing something they want to do, and they generally dislike leaving things unfinished

48. For example, even though a product's price is discounted, the quality of that product may dissuade the consumer from buying the item.

49. 6, 7. (a) Who was Sergius Paulus, and why did Bar-Jesus attempt to dissuade him from listening to the good news?

50. Bristling definition: a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic synonyms: brush, fibre, fiber antonyms: abstain, lose, dissuade, refuse

51. The Indian Railways has steeply hiked platform ticket prices at busy stations to dissuade Crowding on platforms during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic

52. While it can be argued that Bidis and gutka are used, primarily, by poor people, if the government thinks higher taxes on cigarettes will dissuade

53. Her grandfather, a high-court judge and a church elder, tried to dissuade her by resorting to a misapplication of Matthew 19:4-6.

54. Note how different his approach was when he tried to dissuade a crowd in the city of Lystra from worshipping him and Barnabas as gods.

55. When my brother Richard, by then one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, heard of these plans, he made a special journey to Switzerland to try to dissuade me.

56. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul Asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters

57. With diplomacy failing to curb the ambitions and programmes of the trio of North Korea, Pakistan and Iran, it is going to be hard to dissuade the aspirants to the nuclear club.

58. Through its conventions, resolutions, statements and actions, the Organization can help to dissuade disaffected groups from choosing the terrorist path and those who aid, abet or excuse terrorist acts from maintaining those ties or sympathies

59. It is a fact that brotherly ties and Arab values did not discourage Qatar from its Conspiratorial policies and or dissuade it from tampering with the security and stability of Bahrain, a brotherly country that shared historical ties with Qatar.

60. Champerty is, “an agreement to divide litigation proceeds between the owner of the litigated claim and a party unrelated to the lawsuit who supports or helps enforce the claim.” [iv] The policy basis for Champerty was to preclude “stirring up litigation” and to dissuade the “officious intermeddler.”

61. You have said correctly that President Vladimir Putin pointed this out again in his March 1 Address to the Federal Assembly. He said how we worked for many years, at least for 15 years since the Americans announced their decision to withdraw from the ABM Treaty, to dissuade them from taking this destructive stem.

62. The story revolves around the actions of three soldiers: Captain Khlopov, who attempts to dissuade the narrator from accompanying him on the raid by telling him that if he wants to know what battles are like, he should read Danilevski's Descriptions of War; Alanin, an ensign whose youthful inexperience and foolish bravado serve as counterpoint to Khlopov's cool, detached demeanor; and