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How to use the word disincentive in a Sentence?

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I'm not sure what this ban will achieve, other than to add some disincentive to other countries that might be looking to do intense sequencing and identify variants, this might incentivize those countries to maybe, you know, back off on that a little bit because no good deed goes unpunished.

Jonathan Reiner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's a real disincentive for caste-oppressed Dalit people to share their discrimination.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think it is a disincentive to go back to work, we think we can create a much better balance to provide incentives to come back to work.

Larry Kudlow

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Whether it's a payroll tax deduction, whether it's making sure that unemployment benefits continue without a disincentive to return to work.

Republican McConnell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We should be incentivizing work, not providing a disincentive to find a job, which is a good thing both for the taxpayer as well as for the beneficiary.

Jim Jordan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

One of the important elements of this plan revises the current tax code to eliminate the disincentive for re-entry into the work force, women, who are disproportionately most likely to step out of the work force to provide unpaid care, often lack the ability to return to work because it can be hard to rationalize stepping back into the work force and incurring the enormous expense of child care when you are also making less than the primary earner in your home yet taxed at the highest household rate.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It is a disturbing development and escalatory development, one which heightens our need to make the Chinese understand that their actions are in violation of international law and their actions are going to be condemned by everyone in the world, we are not going to have a conflict with China but we can take certain measures which will be a disincentive to China to continue these kinds of activities.

Republican Sen. John McCain

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are not going to have a conflict with China but we can take certain measures which will be a disincentive to China to continue these kinds of activities.

Republican Sen. John McCain

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We worry a little bit that the price signal may give disincentive for new energy types to develop, and could reduce investment in new non-fossil energy.

Zhou Xiaochoan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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