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    encouragement


    1. The kids enjoy being in on the secret and, with the encouragement of their mums, sing ‘Happy birthday’ to him… okay, so their effort is more enthusiastic than accurate, but that’s not important


    2. Despite this, he’s been helping me by going through my lines with me when he calls round – it would have been a lot harder without his assistance and encouragement – he says it’s helping him keep track of what the play is about


    3. However, despite all this encouragement, I’m still preparing myself for the worst as I dress myself in my best suit, and, with a pounding heart, present myself at the offices of the charity in Bristol on the 5th of the month at 11


    4. But there is something of encouragement here


    5. The musicians were assailed with encouragement until the final flourish of the tune and the split second of silence that followed


    6. It’s household policy that homework is the responsibility of the individual concerned, but sometimes a little encouragement is required in order to achieve this


    7. He gave encouragement to the young man, and made him feel he was a vital part of the Hold defense system


    8. All of this gave her more encouragement that this land wasn’t as savage as it looked


    9. Amanda woke to the throbbing engines and waited for Brownie's words of encouragement as he passed


    10. The inauguration of the Livingson Bungalow Lodges was a step too far for that cadre of individuals who, through ignorance, fear, or arrogance had long suspected that the continued encouragement of the 'Chinaman and his squaw-woman,' by the rest of the civic population would lead to dire consequences

    11. and encouragement according to some internal performance scale that


    12. minute yells of camaraderie and encouragement could be heard throughout the


    13. He grins and comes to help me put the tools away before disappearing (with encouragement) to wash off the worst of the mud in the bathroom


    14. encouragement and had already begun threading his way


    15. Spelman's hearty approval and Belle's encouragement, they did just that


    16. She had received permission, in fact encouragement, from Mr


    17. The ladies pleaded with Harry to offer me some advice, or encouragement, or something which might inspire me to greater efforts


    18. whistled and shouted encouragement to the newlyweds


    19. But every one who prophesies speaks to men for their strengthening, encouragement, and comfort


    20. Notice that it wasn’t very encouraging in and of itself, but as I asked the Father, I found an encouragement to give him through it

    21. When you need a word of encouragement, by faith, you reach down, and there is a prophecy


    22. Whimly hugged his knees and shivered while Emily stroked his hair and whispered encouragement into his ears


    23. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives


    24. encouragement to curates, the cures have, in several places, been meanly supplied, the bishop


    25. of silver mines, the law in Peru gives every possible encouragement to the discovery and working of new ones


    26. The same encouragement is given in Peru to the discovery and working of new gold mines; and in gold the king's tax amounts only to a twentieth part of the standard rental


    27. should, in another, be owing to the extraordinary encouragement given to exportation


    28. The one has arisen from a mere accident, in which neither prudence nor policy either had or could have any share; the other, from the fall of the feudal system, and from the establishment of a government which afforded to industry the only encouragement which it requires, some tolerable security that it shall enjoy the fruits of its own labour


    29. That smile you offer others, or that little word of encouragement to a friend has the potential to reproduce itself many times over


    30. Our ancestors were idle for want of a sufficient encouragement to industry

    31. The whole capital employed, therefore, in such a round-about foreign trade of consumption, will generally give less encouragement and support to the productive labour of the country, than an equal capital employed in a more direct trade of the same kind


    32. Whatever be the foreign commodity with which the foreign goods for home consumption are purchased, it can occasion no essential difference, either in the nature of the trade, or in the encouragement and support which it can give to the productive labour of the country from which it is carried on


    33. The capital, therefore, employed in the home trade of any country, will generally give encouragement and support to a greater quantity of productive labour in that country, and increase the value of its annual produce, more than an equal capital employed in the foreign trade of consumption; and the capital employed in this latter trade has, in both these respects, a still greater advantage over an equal capital employed in the carrying trade


    34. It ought, therefore, to give no preference nor superior encouragement to the foreign trade of consumption above the home trade, nor to the carrying trade above either of the other two


    35. Those statesmen who have been disposed to favour it with particular encouragement, seem to have mistaken the effect and symptom for the cause


    36. It has already been observed in what manner the prohibition of the exportation of corn, together with some encouragement given to the importation of foreign corn, obstructed the cultivation of ancient Italy, naturally the most fertile country in Europe, and at that time the seat of the greatest empire in the world


    37. The great armies which marched from all parts to the conquest of the Holy Land, gave extraordinary encouragement to the shipping of Venice, Genoa, and Pisa, sometimes in transporting them thither, and always in supplying them with provisions


    38. I thought I’d relate it to you at this moment since in a roundabout way it could serve as encouragement for all of us to answer “Yes!” to an age-old question regarding the possibility of our being able to gain our freedom from this competitive and aggressive anguish that we frequently suffer from


    39. First, by affording a great and ready market for the rude produce of the country, they gave encouragement to its cultivation and further improvement


    40. To all of them they afforded a market for some part either of their rude or manufactured produce, and, consequently, gave some encouragement to the industry and improvement of all

    41. No country, therefore, which the right of primogeniture takes place, which pays tithes, and where perpetuities, though contrary to the spirit of the law, are admitted in some cases, can give more encouragement to agriculture than England


    42. What would it have been, had the law given no direct encouragement to agriculture besides what arises indirectly from the progress of commerce, and had left the yeomanry in the same condition as in most other countries of Europe ? It is now more than two hundred years since the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth, a period as long as the course of human prosperity usually endures


    43. The law of the country has never given the same direct encouragement to agriculture


    44. She sliced through the boiling water, still calling encouragement to Geneia


    45. She didn’t need any further encouragement as she felt the slack and shot forward like an arrow from a bow


    46. Its two great engines for enriching the country, therefore, were restraints upon importation, and encouragement to exportation


    47. That this monopoly of the home market frequently gives great encouragement to that particular species of industry which enjoys it, and frequently turns towards that employment a greater share of both the labour and stock of the society than would otherwise have gone to it, cannot be doubted


    48. The second case, in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the encouragement of domestic industry, is when some tax is imposed at home upon the produce of the latter


    49. As there are two cases in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the encouragement of domestic industry, so there are two others in which it may sometimes be a matter of deliberation, in the one, how far it is proper to continue the free importation of certain foreign goods; and, in the other, how far, or in what manner, it may be proper to restore that free importation, after it has been for some time interrupted


    50. This may, no doubt, give encouragement to some particular class of workmen among ourselves, and, by excluding some of their rivals, may enable them to raise their price in the home market














































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    Synonyms for "encouragement"

    boost encouragement aid help faith comfort support sustaining reassuring motivation enlivening urging

    "encouragement" definitions

    the expression of approval and support


    the act of giving hope or support to someone


    the feeling of being encouraged