I tried to dissuade him, but it was too late.
We are still working to try to dissuade the North Koreans.
The WTO’s judgment may dissuade at least some countries from doing so.
He wasn't saying that to dissuade me, he said. It was just a fact.
The idea is to dissuade people from using plastic bottles and use this one-day-use bottle instead.
Criticizing yourself is not going to make any difference. Instead it would drain your energy and dissuade you.
Sometimes women used the very fact they were female to dissuade the victim from "telling" ("who would believe you?").
The doves, led by Ms Rice, argued for strong multinational sanctions to rein in Iran's regional ambitions and dissuade it from proceeding with building a bomb.
The advantage of both proposals would be to dissuade markets from pricing in higher interest rates even if inflation topped 2%.
Whenever someone tries to put himself into a right relationship with God, Satan, the accuser, will be right by his side, trying to dissuade him.
Anthony Fabian, director of Skin, says: "Many people tried to dissuade me from making the film because they said apartheid's over."
Until then, he said, he and many of his countrymen will carry on living and working on the margins of the law — and no amount of fines, seizures or jail time will dissuade them.
As Tu Hsiu-ching encouraged the 29th Regiment in their mistaken ideas and the Army Committee failed to dissuade them, the major detachment set out from Linghsien for Chenchow on July 17.
Pumping in the middle of the night when you don't absolutely have to sounds like a form of maternal waterboarding, but far be it from Healthland to dissuade you.
Lovely as the hotel was, we could have been anywhere on earth. And every luxury seemed designed to dissuade people from exploring beyond its whitewashed walls and Moorish domes.
