The city told the outside world that it would provide a generous rebuilding fund - and actively discouraged money-raising efforts that had begun all across the country.

This outcome impedes teamwork and information flows, and discourages daily efforts by administration, faculty, and staff to improve processes.

Mr. Deng generally discouraged efforts to create a cult around himself, as his predecessor Mao had done.

Secretary Shalala said she feared that the good news would invite complacency, discouraging efforts to "modernize Medicare."

Ms. McGrath, MTV's creative director, says emphatically that the network discourages such efforts by record labels.

While doctors have long approved of moderate exercise for pregnant women, they have generally discouraged more vigorous efforts.

The number of uncommitted delegate applicants was a surprise because state committee officials and Governor Cuomo had discouraged such efforts.

(No one can calculate the odds of this, but to assume failure would discourage the very efforts that will promote success.)

High budget deficits have resulted in the underfinancing of existing social programs, they say, and discouraged new efforts.

France has become a veritable electricity junkie, whose policy has all but discouraged efforts to promote the efficient uses of energy.