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How to use dissuaded in a sentence

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My hope is that by making this public here, he will perhaps be dissuaded from continuing to embellish this story with false statements.
To date, this has not dissuaded the media or the activists who are determined to find a smoking gun.
We wanted to keep her close to us so we dissuaded her from taking up that course.
She had warned the demon, dissuaded him till the very end when it had become so painfully clear that it had been all going wrong.
Surely this is now her only chance of making a match, for any respectable gentleman is bound to be dissuaded from asking for her hand.
My first choice so sickened me, and it was such a low blow, that I was dissuaded from using it.
Not even the sight of stretcher-bearers has dissuaded referees from rubbing salt into the wounds down the years.
His wife dissuaded him, however, telling him that he would never be able to live with himself if he concluded so sordid a deal.
Indeed, such persons might be dissuaded from arbitration under the supervision of the English court.
He dissuaded many suitors from pursuing her by telling them she had consumption and wouldn't make a suitable wife for anyone.
The rather poor line-up and the terrible conditions dissuaded me from returning Sunday.
In this way accordingly he dissuaded the Lacedaemonians from showing themselves to be either too bold or cowardly.
What is increasingly hard to believe is that it can be dissuaded or prevented from getting the bomb by force.
But that hasn't dissuaded a loose-knit coterie of online conspiracists, antiwar activists and Democratic Party operatives from keeping the draft rumor alive.
Until there are more blacks in the front offices of the USTA, talented African American players will continue to be ignored or dissuaded from succeeding in tennis.
It is indeed so that people who drink alcohol moderately, should not be dissuaded from this habit for health reasons.
An employee ought not to be dissuaded, even by non-disciplinary pressures, to forego a statutory right to emergency leave.
The latter has dissuaded the Lebanese government from curbing the political predominance of Hezbollah.
Accuseds who would have otherwise pled guilty to severe gun crimes, may now be dissuaded by the certainty of a fixed carceral period.
Some years ago, a friend bought a Burberry raincoat but his wife dissuaded him from wearing it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Casanova threatened to have him hanged, but according to Da Ponte, was dissuaded from this by counter accusations made by Costa.
But farnborough was not to be dissuaded from seeing humour in the situation.
The past four years Alfred had optioned as many different farms, always dissuaded by the wife to give them up.
The shakiness of his little raft dissuaded him, and he abandoned the idea.
He was not, however, dissuaded from his preoccupation with horology.
The men of Mycenae were willing to let them have one, but Jove dissuaded them by showing them unfavourable omens.
I had wanted to, but I had not been willing to take desperate chances, and had always dissuaded the king from them.
The result was that she dissuaded him from settling in Ratisbon.
Inaccessible, and a heart hard to be dissuaded has the son of Kronos.
Apiarians dissuaded from more than tripling their stocks in a year.
They steal for themselves and for family and friends and are not as easily dissuaded as the impulse shoplifter.
And then after you had sent the letter he dissuaded you from keeping the appointment?
Athos, according to his system, neither encouraged nor dissuaded him.
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