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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
encourage .
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Examples
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The title encourages timid believers to acknowledge their religious identity and also recognises that more and more British Christians are no longer prepared to tolerate taxpayer-funded suppression of the visible expressions of their religion.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The label encourages and supports the music of the most innovative new voices on Broadway, to help bridge the gap between pop/rock and musicals, and to preserve the scores of important works.
Playbill.com : News 2010
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The label encourages and supports the music of the most innovative new voices on Broadway, to help bridge the gap between pop/rock and musicals, and to preserve the scores of important works.
Playbill.com : News 2010
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The title encourages timid believers to acknowledge their religious identity and also recognises that more and more British Christians are no longer prepared to tolerate taxpayer-funded suppression of the visible expressions of their religion.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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In addition, the label encourages physicians to manage bleeding without discontinuing prasugrel as stop in treatment can increase the risk of subsequent cardiovascular events.
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The label encourages and supports the music of the most innovative new voices on Broadway, to help bridge the gap between pop/rock and musicals, and to preserve the scores of important works.
Playbill.com : News 2009
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Black Pain encourages us to face the truth about the issue that plunges our spirits into darkness, so that we can step into the healing light.
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In these PC times does that mean that Palin encourages "terrorism" that to do what they did is in fact terrorism .... and you people like her? amazing. how about the tea party gets together to get rid of social security. thats the biggest handout and a waste of money. why should the feds tell me how to plan my retirement with regards to money?
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I've been insulated from death, yet Samhain encourages me to face this difficult reality and make a place for it in my life.
Wes Isley: Between Scary and Silly: A Pagan Spiritual Reflection on Halloween Wes Isley 2010
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Overlay the ST plan on any of these cities and it becomes clear that the ST plan doesn't reduce sprawl in encourages it.
Energy, Transportation, and Land Use Patterns « PubliCola 2010
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