Encourage

//ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ//

"Encourage" in a Sentence (18 examples)

It is necessary for you to go and encourage the girl.

Reading science fiction sometimes does much to encourage a scientific view of the universe.

You must encourage him to try again.

American industry makes various attempts to find and encourage brilliant students from abroad.

We encourage your participation.

It is imperative that we should encourage participatory forms of decision-making.

When I'm sad, my friends encourage me.

Many American parents encourage their sons to play football to keep them away from drugs.

I will go to encourage him.

And you encourage him?

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I encouraged him during his race.

Delia's coach encouraged her to focus on the positives.

"It's a lose-lose situation. It can be turned into a win-win. We should be encouraging and supporting expensive bi-mode freight locomotives, especially where capacity is constrained.

We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.

We encourage you to cycle instead of taking the car.

The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed.

They remove all sense of self-responsibility from us prisoners. We have virtually no control over any aspect of our lives. This does not encourage our ability to return to community life outside.

And this is where the larger problem lies: when states try to enforce impossible bans, everyone loses. 3D printing farragoes have all the hallmarks of the absolute worst kind of ineffectual ban: one which encourages overly draconian laws that carry huge side effects, and that ultimately to have little to no effect.

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