Perhaps he feels that killing a journalist will not discourage Western business.

His aides note that they left corporate taxes alone, in part not to discourage businesses.

For now, the city is hoping that the marketplace will discourage such businesses, at least in the downtown.

It is our contention that raising taxes will simply discourage new businesses from opening up here.

They said that the increased sales taxes would drive shoppers to other states or discourage businesses from putting their headquarters in the city.

These rules, which made setting up savings plans complicated and expensive, often discouraged small businesses from offering any plan.

They also contended that raising the tax would drive high-income people out of the state and discourage new business.

He created a red-light district so that he could control disease without having to discourage business.

Corruption helped many Georgians get rich but discourages legitimate business.

They are particularly concerned that the development will rob them of already scarce parking spaces and thereby discourage business.