Encourage
Meanings and phrases
encourage
- contribute to the progress or growth of; promote; advance; boost; further
- inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to
- spur on
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- to promote the census and encourage people to be counted.
- Aesthetically pleasing and eye-appealing food presentations can encourage people to consume foods.
- The main aim of the visa is to encourage people wishing to attend "Jeddah Season" tourism festival.
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- In order to encourage regional cinema, this film was made tax free from second week.
- Washington proclaimed November 26 as a day of Thanksgiving in order to encourage national unity.
- Surgical management was therefore directed at closing open cavities in order to encourage healing.
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- Its multiple-entry plazas and sunken gardens were designed to encourage socialising.
- The app is designed to encourage communication and awareness in patients and medical staff.
- Overall, the system is designed to encourage role-playing over strict adherence to a set of rules.
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- These suggestions encourage more complex queries, which are not always of relevance.
- National fencing organisations have set up programmes to encourage more students to fence.
- Along with raising the salmon, scientists work to manipulate river flow to encourage more salmon to return.
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- Fellowships with a stipend may encourage students to work on a doctorate.
- For example, machines encourage students to pay attention before receiving a reward.
- The Faculty's philosophy is to encourage students to be humane leaders in this globalizing world.
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- The Young Talent Prize aims to encourage young academic writers.
- A variety of organizations worked to encourage young people to vote.
- He hoped to create a taste for British literature and encourage young writers.
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- The success of the MFDP did not encourage him.
- The tumult of the people I will not encourage: but God alone can appease it."
- The U.S. military did not encourage this technique during World War II and the Vietnam War.
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- The city government continues to encourage the development of MSMEs, among them by holding various expos and festivals.
- Bakht Buland, the ruler of Deogharh, visited Delhi and afterwards was determined to encourage the development of his own kingdom.
- One of the government's most important priorities is to encourage the development of Brunei Malays as leaders of industry and commerce.
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- It is intended to encourage grit, striving through adversity and taking life's challenges head on.
- The award is intended to encourage young writers of an unpublished manuscript that is completed or in-progress.
- The award is intended to encourage elder writers of an unpublished manuscript that is completed or in-progress.
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- She was held up as a role model to encourage women to enter medicine.
- It was founded in 1928 by Józef Piłsudski to encourage women's greater participation in public life.
- In order to encourage women to participate, female skaters are awarded 125% of normal points for every placing.
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- The Young Talent Prize aims to encourage young academic writers.
- Will.i.am said the song "aims to encourage youth to study science".
- Bike On Bike On NZ is a not-for-profit organisation in New Zealand that aims to encourage more New Zealanders to cycle.
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- He also used his column to encourage the use of mind-altering drugs, in particular LSD.
- They have also developed a web-based tool to facilitate and encourage the use of the taxonomy.
- The health campaign was extended in later years by SunSmart to encourage the use of shade and sunglasses.