Sentence examples for believe encourage from inspiring English sources

The reformers' insistence on test-based accountability and on parents' being able to choose where their children are educated is an attempt to break up old patterns that they believe encourage mediocrity.

They say they plan to lobby to repeal tax breaks and subsidies that they believe encourage corporations to send work abroad, and push for the government to do more to promote health-care coverage, education and retirement security.

I think Arne Duncan and the President would take strong issue with your characterization of their policies, which they believe encourage risk-taking and creativity by the hardest-working teachers and most successful schools.

It does so through the reduction of marginal tax rates, which we believe encourages savings and investment.

But Congress has given the administration limited legal authority to change a corporate culture that promoted outsize compensation that many people believe encouraged unacceptably risky business decisions.

Anyone who gives a speech that authorities believe encourages terrorism can be prosecuted, along with any media that report on such speeches.

That move, Mr. Sharon and many Israelis believe, encouraged not only the Hezbollah guerrilla group in Lebanon, but Palestinian terrorist groups as well.

WE at the Jersey Column have often denounced the cult of youth soccer, which we believe encourages an unnatural, hands-free lifestyle and promotes a sport that by any rational standard is just plain boring.

And some believe encouraging more black owners and executives at clubs could help.

And God, I believe, encourages us to "notice" and "name" these desires, in the same way that Jesus encouraged Bartimaeus, the blind beggar in the Gospels, to articulate his desire.

The greater immediacy of personal contact within an informal domestic setting, we believe, encourages and engenders empathic understanding.