6 sentences with 'encourage'
Example sentences and phrases with the word encourage and other words derived from it.
• « To encourage her, I told her that Michener liked to write about animals, and I read her passages about Diplodocus, the dinosaur, from Centennial ("The Saga of the Colorado"), and about Jimmy, the crab, from Chesapeake ("Chesapeake Bay"). »
• « Self-control techniques, which encourage the smoker to analyse his or her behaviour in order to modify it. »
• « In a pilot study, the same medical treatment was given to two groups of colon cancer patients, but some were also given psychological support to encourage optimism. »
• « The Church tried to encourage feudal lords to live according to Christian virtue, but the fact is that the vocation of the nobility, their very social role, was to fight, and therefore, all too often, "politics" was synonymous with "armed struggle" during the Middle Ages. »
• « Almost without exception, elites strove to actively encourage trade by building and guarding trade routes and founding caravanserais, fortified way stations for merchant travellers. »
• « These changes inspired an increasingly lively battle over property rights, the idea that not just land but wealth itself was something that the state should protect and encourage to grow. »