What is "encouraging"

Usage examples of "encouraging".

Several meetings with Lord Carmarthen were no more encouraging with Jefferson present than they had been for Adams for months past.

The senior Shonto even went so far as to blame their former Spiritual Advisor, Brother Satake, for encouraging this trait, saying it was good education for children but the worst foolishness for the lord of a major House.

How I Use the Bodarks, which was so encouraging that it made you too, Cathlin McWalter, believe that you could write about the Bodarks.

Pons, good soul, put in by way of encouraging Brunner to bring out his proposal.

Midst the noise of the corn-sheller, the barking of the dog, the efforts of the bucketeers and bellowsmen, and encouraging cries from on shore, his foot caught in a seam of the sheeting, ripping up about two yards of the ocean.

Michael Cagliari, his national security adviser, glanced at the notes he had made and found nothing encouraging.

Soon after their seizure of power, the Bolsheviks unleashed a campaign of mass terror, encouraging the workers and the peasants to denounce their neighbours to Revolutionary Tribunals and the local Cheka, or political police.

I kicked my horse, encouraging her out of the gates of Cailleac and now, through the Daber Wood by the safe light of day.

He feared that his men would lose their sense and make a mad charge to glory instead of retiring after each short attack to r form and charge again, and so he kept encouraging them to show caution and keep their disci pline.

An illustration of what can be done in this direction is furnished by the Elmira Reformatory, where the experiment is being made with most encouraging results, which, of course, would be still better if the indeterminate sentence were brought to its aid.

Laing had heard Helen Wilder complain that, rather than use their five high-speed elevators which carried them from a separate entrance lobby directly to the top floors, the dog-owners habitually transferred to the lower-level elevators, encouraging their pets to use them as lavatories.

An encouraging froufrou rustled in a nearby clump of parallel, tasseled stems.

The Brothers were severely censured for encouraging geophagous inclinations among the local nobility, whose ladies they had inspirited with a craving for the taste of the local earth, as seasoning, or a dish in itself: it was, after all, Spanish earth.

They eat mainly grass and greenstuffs, so what is the harm in encouraging their multiplication in captivity?

But she saw that the Hams cowered from these Zealots, as they called them, a label Emma found less than encouraging.