Meanings of dissuasive in inglês

There were dissuasive noises from the company, but no attempt at rescue.

Neither of these incongruities was entirely dissuasive of suicide, and neither alone implied murder.

A Tender Motive, a dissuasive from sin, a persuasive to yielding and to righteousness.

But are there no dissuasive arguments to lay before such, to prevent their future misery?

I have received your dissuasive epistle, Fairfax.

Another dissuasive factor, said a source, is the party does not have the funds to mount an effective campaign.

Entomologists call this a defensive strike posture; the beetle emits dissuasive stenches from its rear to ward off predators.

They paced the centre-alley for nearly an hour, talking earnestly: he-looking grave, yet restless; she-wearing an amazed, expostulatory, dissuasive air.

There was a number in the hawker's collection called 'Conscrits Français,' which may rank among the most dissuasive war-lyrics on record.

To critics, dissuasive approaches (often called defensive design or hostile architecture) can be subtly pernicious and even downright cruel.

IHREC chief commissioner Emily Logan said such a move would ensure that legal protections against discrimination are "effective and dissuasive".

He drew off two, which he placed on his friend's platter, despite all dissuasive gesticulations, and deposited the rest upon his own.

A dissuasive letter addressed to Queen Elizabeth; against her marriage with the duke of Anjou, printed in a book called Serinia Ceciliana, 4to.

Now let me ask you to look at this saying, in the connection in which our Lord adduced it, as being a dissuasive.

EoN, and indeed other market participants in the generating sector, are hoping for a dissuasive sentencing to discourage similar such incidents in the future.

The text now only mentions "effective, proportionate and dissuasive criminal penalties," with no details, something environment groups say will weaken its impact.