Sentence examples for attempt at encouraging from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, immigration reform has been stuck in Congress for more than a decade and last month an attempt at encouraging young and educated immigrants to stay in the United States, the DREAM Act, was voted down.

After several failed attempts at encouraging the use of boats to commute across the East River, city officials have an unforeseen problem: too many ferry riders.

Paris Photo's hosts, perhaps in an attempt at separation, encourage contemporary work.

Here's a summary of where things stand: The Federal Reserve announced it would continue to buy assets in an attempt to encourage lending, at the current rate of $85bn a month.

Instead we get this... .. Hodgson had used the phrase "feed the monkey" during the interval at Wembley in an attempt to encourage his players to give the ball more often to the winger, Andros Townsend.

The retailer is also introducing more exclusive, higher quality products in an attempt to encourage shoppers to buy more at full price.

On Friday, public transport was made free of charge for three days in an attempt to encourage people to leave their cars at home.

Opened as part of an attempt to encourage holiday traffic on the line, the halt primarily served golfers at the nearby Royal Cromer Golf Club.

Nonetheless, our experience at this first attempt has been encouraging and enlightening.

During the 1970s, over 200 volunteers lived at La Paz while Cesar attempted to encourage farm workers to unionize.

10,  18 More rigorous structural proof was subsequently obtained through X-ray crystallographic analysis of alcohol 17, formed upon acid-mediated desilylation of 16. 19 Subsequent oxidation with PCC then delivered the targeted ABC-ketone 2 (81 %) 19 along with diol 18 (11 %), containing the requisite oxygenation at C10. 20 Attempts to encourage complete oxidation to 18 were unsuccessful however.