1.   A longer training period may be discouraging some applicants.

2.   It might also discourage undeserving applicants from embarking on the process in the first place.

3.   Performers typically charge fees in the hundreds of dollars per hour simply to discourage applicants.

4.   So the rabbis agreed to discourage such applicants in the strongest terms, not once but three times.

5.   Immigrant campaigners claim that legalization procedures are deliberately designed to discourage applicants.

6.   The state offers bus passes and child care vouchers, while discouraging applicants from taking a government check.