Thursday, December 6, 2012

dissuasion

(n.): an attempt to deter a person from a course of action

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  1. I dissuaded my friend from chickening out.

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  2. Only a very eloquent, persuading speaker can dissuade a person from attempt of suicide.

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  3. Reverse psychology is an example of how one can manipulate the mind to dissuade somebody from doing something questionable.

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  4. She considered selling her house, but we managed to dissuade her.

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  5. We tried to dissuade her when she wanted to cut herself because she got a bad test grade.

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  6. I try to dissuade my bandmate from putting dubstep and metal music together because it will be a big disaster.

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  7. We tried to dissuade the teacher from giving us a test next week but it didn't work.

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  9. I tried to dissuade my friend who just broke up with her boyfriend from doing stupid things.

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  10. I tried to dissuad her from going to the show, because I think it's a waste of time.

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  11. Parents ty to dissuade their children from making stupid decisions.

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  12. I dissuade him not to draw paintings on the wall since he may get himself to the police station by doing that.

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  13. The dissuasion in trying to get our teacher to give us less homework was a failure.

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  14. Students in the class tried dissuading the teacher from giving them extra work for the weekend.

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  15. I tried to dissuade my friend from going inside the restricted area.

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  16. His dissuasion eventually stopped him from perpetrate crime.

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  17. He was dissuaded by his friends and decided to give up on his obviously-destroyed-relationship.

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  18. I tried to dissuade my mom from buying the colorful pan but obviously it didn't work.

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  20. It's hard to accept other's dissuasion since it is often against our own intention, however, it is usually thoughtful.

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  21. I have always tried to dissaude our teachers to give us homework, but it's successful at all.

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