Sentence examples for and it encouraged from inspiring English sources

In 2012, after years of campaigning by feminist groups, the French government announced that it would phase out the use of mademoiselle in favour of madame in official documents, and it encouraged private businesses to follow its lead.

Dudley's work was the largest series of its kind that had been done up to that point, and it encouraged other surgeons to use trepanation for post-traumatic seizures.

The federal government set minimum wages in many industries, and it encouraged the growth of trade unions.

It hoarded in the Treasury money that could have been in circulation, and it encouraged reckless spending by the government.

And it encouraged millions of consumers to dump incandescent light bulbs in favor of energy-sipping compact fluorescents.

And it encouraged Corning executives to keep their effort alive during a recent overhaul of research operations.

And it encourages ambition.

And it encourages suicide.

And it encourages you to buy more".

Islam is imbued with violence, and it encourages violence.

It is really sad and it encourages the consumerist cycle.