But it does not want cheques to be included in the regulation, arguing that these are an inefficient payment mechanism that should be discouraged even at local, let alone cross-border, level.

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And I just decided that if I read back I was going to be so discouraged at seeing how bad the manuscript was, what a terrible job I'd done, so I just kept going.

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If you have a large group, you may be discouraged when you try to look at the photos of the group all together since there's no way to filter them.

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Dr Matthew Hobbs, head of research at Diabetes UK, said people should not be discouraged from exercising.

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Entire days' worth of appointments would be wiped out, and hot-weather forecasts discouraged reservations for days at a time.

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At least we can be sure that as more workers get discouraged, the official unemployment rate goes down.

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Meanwhile a survey by the Lemelson Center at MIT survey found that the majority of teenagers may be discouraged from pursuing STEM careers because they do not know anyone who works in these fields and they do not understand what people in these fields do.

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Bidois also discouraged the use of public transportation in urban areas and warned that caution should be taken at beaches, especially in El Salvador.

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"Without validation at the 'stepping-stone' point, less confident students are likely to be discouraged from embarking on A-levels in the first place, " it says.

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