| He was familiar with her obstinate behaviour, and knew that any attempt to dissuade her from doing what she wanted would only invoke her anger. |
| Staffordshire Police is urging parents to dissuade their children from taking part in the Halloween activity known as trick or treat. |
| Those who knew us knew, as I refused to yield my gunman position in the drive-by, that they couldn't dissuade me. |
| With some difficulty, we managed to dissuade our left-leaning daughter from buying pint-sized T-shirts for our preschool grandchildren. |
| For if income tax dissuades the living rich from being rich, then the death tax can only dissuade the dead rich from dying. |
| The biggest mystery is how these disturbing metrics failed to dissuade big investors and lenders from taking a flier on the industry. |
