dissuaded

Meaning

of Dissuade

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Examples

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded. William Joyce

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them. Eli Wallach

Eddis looked at her minister, curious. "Your head?” she asked. Attolia explained. "He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son.” "So have we all from time to time,” Eddis said seriously. Megan Whalen Turner

The regulatory chill caused by the mere existence of investor-State dispute settlements has effectively dissuaded many States from adopting much-needed health and environmental protection measures. Alfred de Zayas

It's unwise to say nation-states wanting to retain their national identity in Europe should be dissuaded or stopped from doing so. Nationalism can go wrong, sure - but everything can go wrong. Douglas Murray

He [Rembrandt] was not to be dissuaded from this practice, saying in justification that a work is finished when the master has achieved his intention in it. Rembrandt