1.   Higher taxes are likely to discourage investment.

2.   The farmers say that fear of being bought out will discourage future investment in their land.

3.   The uncertainty of such stop-go policies arguably reduced business confidence and discouraged investment.

4.   He claims the new regulations will discourage investment.

5.   These fluctuations can be very damaging to business confidence and may discourage long-term investment.

6.   An economic stimulus package has to address the underlying weaknesses in the economy that are discouraging investment and lowering consumer confidence.

7.   And restrictive work rules have raised costs and discouraged investment.

8.   And under terms of the International Monetary Fund-brokered bailout of Korea, the government agreed to keep interest rates high to discourage investment.

9.   And to ensure the caps did not discourage investment in new plants, those facilities would be exempt from the limits.