Word Finder - encouraging

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To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.

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I encouraged him during his race.

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To spur on, strongly recommend.

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We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.

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To foster, give help or patronage

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

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Encouragement

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Giving courage, confidence or hope

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Although there is no cure for the disease yet, the research results are encouraging.

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Supporting by giving encouragement

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Auspicious, or bringing good luck

When he spoke, he had encouraging news on another matter.

I was watching for some encouraging sign.

Sure, he had stepped over the line, but hadn't she invited him by encouraging his attention?

Apparently Rob didn't think I'd been encouraging him.

Like another Socrates, he taught them to know themselves, repressing vanity, encouraging the despondent, and attaching all alike by his unobtrusive sympathy.

Was she encouraging Alex to assume a paternal role, or was she merely old-fashioned enough to think that men and women had specific roles?

I did, but you said I was encouraging him.

Alex thought she was encouraging him.

She is generally sweet and encouraging to the contestants.

I don't understand you two, both encouraging your lovers to cheat on you.

Maybe that was why both he and Katie were encouraging her to change.

Sensing she was only encouraging him not to do what she wanted, she sought some other reason.

The results of these first experiments were not encouraging, owing mainly to the poor class of animals, but the exporters persevered, and the business steadily grew in value and importance, until in 1898 the number of live cattle shipped was 359,296, which then decreased to 119,189 in 1901, because of the foot-and-mouth disease.

In West Africa also prospects appear encouraging.

He does not consider the possibility of deriving enjoyment from wealth by helping the poor or encouraging learning (this latter, indeed, he looks on as vanity), and in general he recognizes no obligation on the part of a man to his fellows.

Judicious training also may be of importance as encouraging the formation of flowers and fruit.

I am grateful for these encouraging comments.

Under different circumstances she would be openly encouraging his attention - the circumstances being, if Dad hadn't sent him.

Hubert was accused, with some reason, of enriching himself at the expense of the crown, and of encouraging popular riots against the alien clerks for whom the papacy was providing at the expense of the English Church.

On the other hand, he approves of a protective tax on German linen in favour of home manufactures, and of a tax on brandy as encouraging the sale of rum and so supporting our southern colonies.

Though Carlyle, especially in his earlier years, could deliver an invigorating and encouraging, if not a sanguine doctrine, his utterances were more generally couched in the key of denunciation, and betrayed a growing despondency.

Otto II., the Lame (1229-1271), fortified several towns and bestowed privileges upon them for the purpose of encouraging trade.

He reached the town (I 6th April) and was met by encouraging crowds.

The Bolivian government has prohibited the exportation of the live animals and is encouraging their production.

He died in 1812, one of his last acts having been to write an encouraging letter to the emperor Alexander I.

Successes will come, encouraging more data collection and more people to participate.

Although Spain had joined France in the war against Great Britain, she feared to imperil her own colonial interests by directly encouraging and aiding the former British colonies in their revolt against their mother country, and she had refused to recognize the United States as an independent power.

Since the beginning of the 10th century some attention has been paid to the cultivation of tea and cotton, with encouraging results.

Quasi-legislation by treaty has been directed mainly to encouraging the settlement of international disputes by peaceful methods, and to regulating the conduct of warfare.

Growse, who was active in erecting public buildings, and in encouraging the local gentry to beautify their own houses.

In eastern Europe, so far as the figures can be trusted, this is markedly the case, and the birth-rates range between 39 per mille in Hungary and 49 in Russia, where the tradition of encouraging prolificity amongst the peasantry has not been effaced.

The Black Death came to that city in 1348, and it is said that, when the city was deserted by all who could leave it, Tauler remained at his post, encouraging by sermons and personal visitations his terror-stricken fellow-citizens.

As early as September 363, Athanasius was able to travel to Jovian, the new emperor, who had sent him a letter praising his Christian fidelity and encouraging him to resume his work.

Private property is in this sense " natural " from its obvious advantages in encouraging ' The originality - such as it is - of Paley's system (as of Bentham's) lies in its method of working out details rather than in its principles of construction.

Thus, not content with encouraging writers with innovating ideas to the prejudice of traditional institutions, he attacked, in the order of the Jesuits, the strongest defender of these latter, and delivered over the new generation to revolutionary doctrines, A woman.

In general there has been considerable improvement in the condition of agriculture since the introduction of railways, and in cvery province there is a royal commissioner entrusted with the duty of supervising and encouraging this branch of industry.

He protected the Catholic as well as the orthodox clergy, encouraging them both to civilize his subjects; he raised the Lithuanian army to the highest state of efficiency then attainable; defended his borders with a chain of strong fortresses; and built numerous towns including Vilna, the capital (c. 1321).

His object was to retain the best horses in the country, and to keep the price of them down by limiting the demand and encouraging the supply.

The reason all revolved around the fact that she felt uncomfortable around Rob – and the fact that Alex had said she was encouraging him.

The response of governments has been to further industrialize agriculture, encouraging monocultures and the high use of chemical inputs at increasing costs.

The Government Offices will be encouraging future bids aimed at raising levels of educational achievement.

Funding targeted specifically at encouraging local activism could help to break the cycle.

Encouraging findings for SME's who may be affected by a risk becoming an actuality.

Some of these developments have been very encouraging, but some have had a very adverse effect on all of us.

There is a fine balance between encouraging autonomous learning and maintaining adequate supervision.

They have each been very supportive of our niche cashmere strategy and we have been actively encouraging their increased involvement for some time.

The support for those of us that are facilitators is like having a personal cheerleader encouraging us to do our best!

An encouraging result for discerning pizza connoisseurs, who may now be asking for an extra topping of fuzzy logic with their next pizza.

It is encouraging to see yet another industry response to the Scotch single malt connoisseur 's desire.

Keir Smith's installation has restored the itinerary of the original design, encouraging contemplation on the construction of meaning.