The fact that the three schoolboys couldn't play and didn't own any instruments didn't discourage them.

Still, the fact that the United States has agreed to pay only 5 percent of the project's cost has clearly discouraged the other partners.

The mere fact that he and Augustus were there had long since discouraged the local horsethieves.

The fact that the first group drug back in ones and twos, looking horrible, in no way discouraged them.

To some, the fact that Genentech would risk its independence was discouraging for two reasons.

This fact and the environmental ethics of the tribe discourage overexploitation.

The fact that Jobs does not automatically get the business has discouraged Nasdaw market makers from competing on price.

The fact that the attempt had failed did not discourage his fellow patriots.

"The fact that this logical and in some ways very elegant approach is not serving as a total solution is discouraging."

The fact that it is only an analogue of all this sexual terminology I am capable of does not discourage me.