Sentence examples for besides encouraging from inspiring English sources

The tax break, besides encouraging physical improvements at tracks and creating jobs, could help "prop up our membership," he said.

When anti-anti-bag laws are in place, there's not much Romer can do, besides encouraging bag opponents to get the laws repealed.

The traveling village fair – whose purpose, besides encouraging good hygiene, is to increase awareness and demand for sanitation facilities in rural areas – is being promoted and facilitated by Mr. Ramesh's ministry, but its funding comes from a host of organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which together raised a little more than $2 million for it.

If you've ever wanted to swing a magic wand around and make things happen (besides encouraging the cool kids to give you a swirly, that is), here's your chance.

What's nice about Minuum, besides encouraging a healthy laziness around typing accuracy, is that it gives users options, and lets them choose a keyboard that mostly gets out of the way – this means more space dedicated to showing you your Message conversation history, for instance, or an unencumbered view of your Note, to name just a couple of benefits.

Besides encouraging the use of the vernacular languages in schools, he gave particular encouragement to the education of girls.

There is nothing I can do for Lily besides encourage her to come in to school, take her exams and see if they can help her on to the next stage.

And besides, you Americans are encouraging talks with the Taliban.

This means, besides self-cultivation, allowing and encouraging the people to develop their nature and capacity to the fullest.

Something else besides attracting investment money and encouraging foreign trade seems to be going on.

So, besides training and educating health professionals on VBC, encouraging them to develop and adhere to standard operating procedure (SOP) that accommodates all aspects of VBC would minimize the proportion of undesirable practices among health professionals irrespective of profession.