Discouragement Sentence Examples

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  • The succeeding three months brought disaster and discouragement to the Union army.

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  • Science in the middle school can be a time of either great learning or discouragement for students.

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  • With such discouragement of new blood, long-term decline was almost inevitable.

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  • Clarkson first, and Buxton afterwards, whilst they urged all other means for the suppression or discouragement of the slave trade and slavery, saw clearly that the only thoroughly effectual method would be the development of legitimate commerce in Africa itself.

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  • In1807-1808he delivered at Berlin, amidst danger and discouragement, his noble addresses to the German people (Reden an die deutsche Nation).

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  • Its poisonous nature must act as a further discouragement.

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  • It was the weakness of princes, the discouragement of freemen and landholders confronted by an inexorable system of financial and military tyranny, and the incompatibility of a vast empire with a too primitive governmental system, that wrecked the work of Charlemagne.

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  • Unresolved conflicts produce discouragement and withdrawal from family life.

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  • Unrealistic expectations of dietary perfection only lead to disappointment, discouragement and backsliding.

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  • You do not want to create anything that will fuel discouragement rather than bring hope and a feeling of victory.

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  • Complicating this already emotional situation is the discouragement of treatments that do not work as expected and the uncertainty of finding something that will work.

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  • Republicans carried the state for Fremont for president, and a succession of Republican governors held office until 1862 when the discouragement in the North with respect to the Civil War brought a reaction which elected Seymour governor.

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  • They often find themselves being passed from one office to another receiving only discouragement.

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  • Indeed, his extension of means-testing provides a savage discouragement to saving.

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  • On the other hand David didn't complain against other believers, as some do when stresses occur and so cause further discouragement.

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  • Like others, I often feel the discouragement of which you speak, but in my eyes that is also a necessary test.

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  • There's no discouragement shall make him once relent His first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

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  • He deals with the problems and dangers of discouragement and shows us how to avoid the pitfalls of introspection and too much self-examination.

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  • The process was accelerated by Sellas illness and death (14th March 1884), an event which cast profound discouragement over the more thoughtful of the Conservatives Ind Moderate Liberals, by whom Sella had been regarded as a supreme political reserve, as a statesman whose experienced vigour and patriotic sagacity might have been trusted to lift Italy from any depth of folry or misfortune.

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  • Once having accepted the principle of constitutional government, the emperor-king adhered to it loyally, in spite of the discouragement caused by party struggles embittered by racial antagonisms. If in the Cisleithan half of the monarchy pv rliamentary government broke down, this was through no fault of the emperor, who worked hard to find a mod us vivendi between the factions, and did not shrink from introducing manhood suffrage in the attempt to establish a stable parliamentary system.

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  • Discouragement and weariness cast me down frequently; but the next moment the thought that I should soon be at home and show my loved ones what I had accomplished, spurred me on, and I eagerly looked forward to their pleasure in my achievement.

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  • Did you not notice discouragement?...

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  • In Italy the news of the defeat of Adowa caused deep discouragement and dismay.

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  • Many towns shut their gates upon them; but, in spite of discouragement, they spread from Poland to the Rhine, and penetrated as far as Holland and Flanders.

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  • The cities, notwithstanding every kind of discouragement, formed new associations for mutual defence or strengthened those which already existed.

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  • With his fierce hatred of what he recognized as injustice, it was impossible that he should not feel exasperated at the gross misgovernment of Ireland for the supposed benefit of England, the systematic exclusion of Irishmen from places of honour and profit, the spoliation of the country by absentee landlords, the deliberate discouragement of Irish trade and manufactures.

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  • He met with incredible discouragement and dangers at first, which he overcame by his strong faith, determination and genial humour.

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  • He has had too much all-round discouragement to meet.

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  • Policy has ranged from encouraging GP involvement to active discouragement coinciding with the setting up of specialist centers in the late 1960s.

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  • Everywhere, however, he met with discouragement among the chiefs, whose adherence he wished to secure; but at last, by enlisting the support of Cameron of Lochiel, he gained a footing for a serious rebellion.

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  • His vast collection of sources (Rerum Italicarum scriptores), prepared amid every discouragement, remains to-day the national monument of Italian history; and it is but one of his collections.

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  • Meditating, it is probable, emigration upon his release, he turned his attention while in prison to colonial subjects, and acutely detected the main causes of the slow progress of the Australian colonies in the enormous size of the landed estates, the reckless manner in which land was given away, the absence of all systematic effort at colonization, and the consequent discouragement of immigration and dearth of labour.

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  • Legislative sanction was, however, given to the establishment of the Sierra Leone Company, for the colonization of a district on the west coast of Africa and the discouragement of the slave trade there.

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  • His chief defect was an over-sensitiveness, leading to peevish and unreasonable behaviour in his private and official relations, to hasty and unbalanced judgments of persons and things that had given him annoyance, and to a despondency and discouragement which frustrated the great good he might have effected as a philosophic critic of public affairs.

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