But our system is to discourage very young men from opting for the pros.

His great size and strength discouraged men from trying to prove their manhood and courage by baiting him.

Her actions will discourage men who mean marriage.

Other types of trade were also discouraged: men selling themselves to women, and post-pubescent daughters being sold into slavery by their fathers.

Several years ago, the police began an education program to discourage men from abducting teen-age girls to marry, a common practice among the Hmong.

No one misses these discouraged men, and in going away they have made it somewhat easier for those that remain.

All of us should be concerned when the financial burden of public service becomes so great as to discourage good men and women from seeking office.

Women, by contrast, if they mentioned their height at all, tended to give an exact measurement, perhaps to discourage men below that mark from writing in.

To discourage men from leaving their families at the depot as they worked in Halifax, rations were only given to heads of families.