The popularity of 107 West, owing largely, I suspect, to its low prices, will hardly discourage other would-be Cajuns from plugging in the deep fryer and opening more such establishments.

Dobermans and German shepherds were not my image and retrievers hardly discourage criminals.

Jefferson Davis, secretary of war, turned down the bid, but his "no" hardly discouraged the determined Minnesotan.

Connors said the loss hardly discouraged him and called his comeback effort "a day-to-day thing."

"I am now feeling knowledgeable about the Reform Party system," she said, hardly discouraging the likelihood of the Buchanans' defection from the Republican Party, about which they have promised a decision by mid-October.

The 9/11 commission has already pointed out that this general retreat from the intent of the law hardly discourages terrorists; in fact, it was the government's internal failure to share information that contributed to that tragedy.

There wasn't much to be done to prepare the city against an atomic bomb in the 50's, but this hardly discouraged the city's Office of Civil Defense.

Copyright was supposed to encourage production in arts and sciences and as Tolkien is not producing anything anymore, losing copyright could hardly discourage him.

Which hardly discouraged the growers, or their marketing men, from using Burgundy as a generic name for just about any kind of anonymous California red.

But that hardly discourages Ms. Sonen's students as they do regular shows, deconstruct them in group critiques and bounce back hearty as the jet stream for more "tosses" - segues from mock anchor people cueing the forecaster ("Quite a cold one today, Dave.