At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.
My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.
As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.
I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I have encouraged hate toward gays. I've received both very brief and obscene messages, and very long and literate messages that tell me a vote for Crash was vote for homophobia.
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
My sisters and I were encouraged to choose the direction of our lives.
My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.
"You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil. ""Good will triumph over evil," said Richard. "Liar. "
Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.
It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive values n=2,3,. . up to, say, n=100. If the result of at least one test were negative, the hypothesis would prove to be false; otherwise our confidence in the hypothesis would increase, and we should feel encouraged to attempt establishing the hypothesis, instead of trying to construct a counterexample.
The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.
My parents always stressed the importance of education, working hard in school and learning as much as possible. They also encouraged me to value myself and believe in myself and do what I thought was right for me.
Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.
In China, I helped introduce UNEP's campaign to reduce food waste on World Environment Day. The government took notice of food waste issues and now, when you over-order in a restaurant, you are encouraged to downsize. This is where people can really impact policy and vice versa!
When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.