(v. t.) To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
(2) The experiences with short-time psychotherapies described here are encouraging and confirm results of other groups demonstrating the efficiency of psychotherapeutic interventions with the elderly.
(3) Survival reports appear encouraging but this may represent an artifact in patient selection.
(4) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(5) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
(6) She was provided medical treatment and encouraged and supported to seek counselling, including flights for that help to Nairobi.
(7) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(8) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
(9) The early results up to 20 month after surgery in 11 patients are encouraging, especially according to subjective complaints.
(10) The development of optical fibers capable of transmitting laser energy has encouraged the experimental use of laser irradiation for the treatment of acquired cardiovascular disorders.
(11) Children and adopters are encouraged to meet with foster carers after placement to show the child they are well.
(12) The results are encouraging, further examinations are still lasting.
(13) It said: “We will be seeking to inform and encourage dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians in the wider cultural and creative community.
(14) "If necessary we will promote and encourage new laws which require future WHO funding to be provided only if the organisation accepts that all reports must be supported by the preponderance of science."
(15) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
(16) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(17) The current progress of the HEMOPUMP is encouraging, and survival rates show the potential for a successful outcome.
(18) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
(19) This has shown that, in spite of higher dose rates in the corridor areas because of the use of an MDR system and the increase in interstitial techniques, the doses to ward nurses have been significantly reduced by encouraging staff to comply with the ALARA principle and the introduction of afterloading systems.
(20) By way of encouragement we've got 10 copies of Faber's smart new anniversary edition to give away.
Foment
Definition:
(v. t.) To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
(v. t.) To cherish with heat; to foster.
(v. t.) To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mr Osborne will nevertheless be happy to foment such feelings in order to encourage Labour divisions.
(2) Undoubtedly some of them see the Corbyn surge as a fantastic recruitment opportunity, or the next stage in fomenting the kind of revolution that has never taken place in a single western country.
(3) Hillary Clinton has a message for Republicans bemoaning the rise of Donald Trump: “You reap what you sow.” In a speech on Monday, the former secretary of state blamed Republicans’ obstructionism, which she said fomented Trump’s incendiary campaign.
(4) Starting in Latin America, Asia and Africa, working with developers whose customers live in the favelas and shanty towns and townships, Mozilla aims to foment revolution which, if it succeeds, will filter back to the west.
(5) Manama regularly accuses Tehran of fomenting trouble, but no evidence has come to light of direct Iranian involvement.
(6) Authorities have repeatedly accused the exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer of fomenting the violence.
(7) Bahrain accuses Shia Iran of fomenting violence in the kingdom – a charge Tehran denies.
(8) Official editorials repeatedly claim that the movement is backed by “hostile foreign forces” intent on fomenting a “colour revolution” to undermine Beijing.
(9) The transcripts, obtained by New Matilda and provided to Guardian Australia, show: disenchantment among workers with the viability of settling refugees on Nauru fear among staff of an uncontrollable riot, like the one on Manus – where locals “absolutely beat the shit out of large numbers of people and killed a man” the immigration department asked security staff for “anything you’ve got on Save the Children” the information used to sack 10 Save the Children workers was “probability”, not evidence, and “not something you’d rely on in court” the protests Save the Children Staff were accused of fomenting, “would have happened anyway”, and the department does not know if the staff sacked “were the right 10 people”.
(10) 5 Petro Poroshenko The pro-western president of Ukraine is in effect at war with Putin, who last year seized a large chunk of Ukraine – Crimea – and fomented a separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine.
(11) Others facets include power struggles between military and business elites, long-standing tribal rivalries, armed separatism in the south, Iranian-fomented Shia Muslim rebellion in the north , and most significant of all (for the Saudis and Americans), the tightening grip on Yemen of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula – viewed by Washington as a bigger threat than al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
(12) So anybody who now tries to foment trouble is doing it on their own.” John Oloyede, a legal expert and pundit on Nigeria’s Channels television, said: “He is the first Nigerian ruler, head of state, to congratulate somebody who is going to take over from him.
(13) Tehran has repeatedly attacked PTV as an arm of the British government, which it accuses of seeking to foment a "velvet revolution".
(14) With echoes of the Catholic priest scandal, for decades rabbis have hushed up child sex crimes and fomented a culture in which victims are further victimised and abusers protected.
(15) Now Najib is taking no chances as his lieutenants warn that Anwar is fomenting an Arab spring-style uprising – a so-called "hibiscus revolution".
(16) The Russian president, who has denied allegations by Kiev and the west that Russia has fomented the rebellion in the east, said he welcomed Poroshenko's call for an end to the bloodshed and liked his approach to settling the crisis but wanted to wait until the Ukrainian leader could deliver it in detail to the nation.
(17) Hot fomentation and unsterile materials applied to the cord were the apparent causative factors.
(18) But he was surely being modest about his own role in fomenting the chaos and the killing.
(19) Other examples could be cited, but the important point is that people everywhere have good reasons to be suspicious when the US government issues warnings that have the effect of fomenting fear and quelling criticism.
(20) It’s been part of a noxious brew, with a dangerous anti-politics and anti-MP stereotypes fomented by leave and their media backers mixed in.