Though discouraging, the failure of choice to lead to overall improvement often seems to reflect weaknesses in the way that choice is implemented rather than a failure of the basic principle itself.

Another Greenpeace movement concerning rainforest is discouraging palm oil industries.

The intention is to hinder deminers by discouraging any attempts to clear minefields.

Its heritage product is a technology for discouraging the copying of video through analog interfaces of consumer electronic devices.

Because Islam is a religion that focuses very heavily on learning the central text of the Qur ' an, and because Islamic culture has historically tended towards discouraging or prohibiting figurative art, calligraphy became one of the foremost of the arts.

* Offspring paternity is unknown and this can be beneficial in encouraging parental care and discouraging infanticide by males

Protectionism is the policy of restraining and discouraging trade between states and contrasts with the policy of free trade.

From a consumer's standpoint the only discouraging trend in this market is the adoption of data volume caps by all vendors.

Besides discouraging animals that eat live prey, playing possum also convinces some large animals that the opossum is no threat to their young.

Some collective solution is needed, such as a court system to allow parties affected by the pollution to be compensated, government intervention banning or discouraging pollution, or economic incentives such as green taxes.

Exfoliation is also necessary, but over-exfoliation can cause irritation and increases in oil production ; exfoliants that contain fruit acids are particularly helpful, and fine-grained exfoliants may help to clear blocked pores, discouraging breakouts and improving the skin's appearance.

Together with Weston ( who at the beginning is curious about, but not particularly sympathetic to the Ecotopians ), the reader learns about the Ecotopian transportation system and the preferred lifestyle that includes celebrating gender roles, official encouragement of maintaining racial separation, discouraging monogamy, promoting sexual freedom.

In 2009 the European Union issued guidance discouraging the use of " ma ' am " when the woman's name is known, but does not indicate how to address a woman when her name is not known.

In a sense, the required investment is a natural barrier to entry, discouraging some would-be members from making the necessary investment in training to enter the competitive market for the services of the guild.

Social conservatism is often associated with the position that the government should have a greater role in the social affairs of its citizens, generally supporting whatever it sees as morally correct choices and discouraging or outright forbidding those it considers morally wrong ones.

In the manga she is portrayed as calm, serious, and practical, distrusting most men and discouraging her friends from developing romantic relationships.

Initially he is extremely possessive of Mytho, displaying a need to be in control of everything the prince does and discouraging his emotions as they are gradually restored in a forceful and almost abusive manner.

Critic Roger Ebert reviewed Deep Throat in an early 1973 column, giving it a no-stars rating and writing, " It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom ; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging.

The system of cram school is currently blamed for discouraging pupils from independent studies.

At this period he enjoyed a high repute in Bologna ; he was made president of the Academia Enquietorum when in his twenty-fourth year, and he is said to have signalized his tenure of the presidential chair by discouraging abstract speculations, and by setting the fashion towards exact anatomical observation and reasoning.

The reason alcohol is weighted more heavily than would otherwise occur is due to two reasons, see at paragraph, ( a ) " based on the principle that alcohol is metabolized in the same pathway as fat " ( treats alcohol as having 9 calories per gram ) and ( b ) " based, in part, on the desirability of discouraging consumption of alcohol, due to the ill-healthy effects associated with this nutrient " ( weights alcohol more than other sources of calories ).

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

`` What is the scaffolding for, Brassnose ''??

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

This is a paradise for hunters.

`` And if the dive goes OK he has the exclusive import rights to your line for this country, is that right ''??

There is nothing for you '', Matsuo said.

It is almost time for and calinda to begin ''.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.

Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.