He said that another novel approach was something he called an "avian dissuader laser."

Death is a potent dissuader, to the promiscuous as to the drug abuser, but the least-educated and the most-deprived have less to live for.

BATTLING for attention against the climax of the football season and the dissuader of customarily bitter weather, the start of a new county season never has enjoyed a high profile.

There would be no guarantees, for Alba's shores lay far from the City of Elua and my estate of Montrève, but of a surety, the friendship of the Master of the Straits was a powerful dissuader.