The majority of Konocti is owned by private parties, who have discouraged exploration and study of the mountain in recent years.

Lower prices have discouraged exploration and production, while encouraging greater consumption.

It is necessary, however, to reveal the rest in order to justify my course in discouraging further exploration.

In general, it discourages exploration and play, and turns it more into a process of figuring out what they wanted you to do.

But such declines also force American producers to close their least efficient fields and discourage exploration for new domestic fields.

His failure to find a northwest passage - or gold, as the Spanish had in Peru - discourages further exploration.

That was in the mid-1970's, when price controls discouraged exploration.

Everything worked perfectly, and yet the effect was to discourage further exploration of Mars.

Oil executives complain bitterly that by providing a major new source of Canadian gas, it will discourage domestic exploration.

This cuts down on grinding and does not discourage exploration to the same extent.