Sentence examples for centered on encouraging from inspiring English sources

He called for passage of his energy plan, which is centered on encouraging more domestic oil and gas production.

For example, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, sold by the Campbell Soup Company, recently teamed up with the Cartoon Network cable channel, part of Time Warner, for a "National Recess Week" promotion, centered on encouraging school-age children to be more active.

That means the segment of the old economy centered on encouraging wasteful consumption will continue shrinking.

Two keys to increasing the likelihood that the above intrinsic characteristics develop in sports-involved youth will be centered on encouraging not only the fun that should accompany playing sports, but also the high levels of effort necessary for improvement.

However, the advocacy work of Dreamers — which has centered on encouraging undocumented youth to tell their stories — paid off last summer when President Barack Obama announced Dreamers would be protected from deportation and granted work permits under the new program dubbed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Otherwise you wind up with situations like South Carolina, where Democrats gave their Senate nomination to Alvin Greene, an unemployed political novice recently indicted on a felony charge who has an economic development platform that seems to center on encouraging the manufacturing of Alvin Greene action figures.

A new marketing effort by the agency is centered on the idea of encouraging its partners — including government agencies, nonprofit organizations, corporations, colleges and universities — to help promulgate its stories about Philadelphia as a "modern renaissance city".

And much of the talk at the all-day conference centered on how parents could be encouraged to exercise those provisions.

Initial studies of PAV, centered on its patho-physiologcal effects, proved encouraging.

López Obrador, who was Mexico City's head of government from 2000 to 2005, narrowly lost the 2006 Presidential election, and for months afterward he encouraged mass protests, centered on a tent city erected in the capital.

The new conditions encourage collaborative teams centered on big-name scientists who "specializ[e] in leading major research initiatives, identifying key research questions, and writing grant applications, while their collaborators at lower ranked-institutions run experiments, collect and analyze data, and work together with all collaborators to interpret and write their results".