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encourages

vb. (en-third-person singular of: encourage)

Usage examples of "encourages".

It relieves fluid retention and premenstrual tension, detoxifies the system and encourages circulation.

As medicine teaches also about poisons, metaphysics disturbs with inoppor­tune subtleties the dogmata of religion, ethics recommends magnificence (which is not of help to everyone), astrology fosters superstition, optics deceives, music rouses lust, geome­try encourages unjust dominion, and mathematics avarice— so the Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is pro­viding fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

It purifies all forms of pollution and negativity, endows strength and endurance and encourages fidelity.

It encourages rest, cures insomnia and assists in working through loss.

If we have to skew the system, then let's do it in such a way that it encourages our fellow citizens to help one another.

I think it means that the system not only allows but encourages us to participate in the economy.

Taxes are by their very nature a negative influence, and we can't get away from that, but what we can do is at least structure the tax system in such a way that it does minimum harm, and maybe even encourages people to use their money in such a way as to encourage the overall system to work.

The wood at first barely smolders and then, as the puffing encourages it, it begins to crackle and finally agrees to a lively, blazing fire.

Beware, then, of allowing yourself to be caught by this tormenting gossip that obliges you to picture Her with a Him, and remember: Nothing more than solitude encourages sus­picion, nothing more than daydreaming transforms suspicion into certainty.

Moreover, it is incontestable that Madison Avenue frequently exaggerates the importance of new features and encourages consumers to dispose of partially worn-out goods to make way for the new.

Advertising encourages and capitalizes on this feeling, but it can hardly be credited with having created it single-handedly.

It reveals how technological and social events are linked to one another, encourages the player to think in probabilistic terms, and, with various modifications, can help clarify the role of values in decision-making.

The initiate encourages the mystic and uses him as you might use a telephone, to establish long-distance contact, or as a chemist might use litmus paper, to detect the action of a particular substance.

But when dampness is inherent, a bed-warmer encourages it: you feel welcome warmth, but the sheets remain humid.

Dee fires up Francis Drake and encourages him to make his voyage around the world.