Sentence examples for could have been encouraged from inspiring English sources

He said the disturbances could have been encouraged by "the suspicious hands of the dissolved ruling party and related individuals who contributed by spreading baseless rumours".

An unravelling of some kind after his death was inevitable, but it need not have been bloody.The Serbs, after all, could have been encouraged to see communism's collapse as opening the way to a bright future.

In the case of the Florida elections, for example, Adida notes that voters could have been encouraged to use the system to make sure their votes were counted, and candidates could have checked the tallies.

The source added that links to international terrorism are still on the table, however, as the assailants could have been encouraged by a foreign terror group.

Progressive volunteers could have been encouraged to conduct face-to-face dialogues in their communities and to form relationships with one another (instead of merely finding themselves on the receiving end of an email list).

If the reports are true, the Israeli public could have been encouraged to believe that the teens were being held hostage somewhere in the West Bank, and the military carried out a vast and intrusive search operation in which hundreds were arrested, including dozens from the Hamas leadership, and five Palestinians were killed, on this basis.

But the plaintiffs could not have been encouraged by his line of questioning on Wednesday morning.

Even the World Bank, usually timid about offending its largest client, has joined in the chorus.A franker debate could not have been encouraged without signals from the top, and they are now being made in public.

Leibniz could not have been encouraged by Arnauld's response: "I find in these thoughts so many things which alarm me and which almost all men, if I am not mistaken, will find so shocking, that I do not see of what use a writing can be, which apparently all the world will reject" (G 2 15).

But they couldn't have been encouraged by a sermon the pope delivered at Mass on Tuesday.

Almost all agreed that reforms were "extremely urgent" and that without them there could be "social turmoil .Liberals have been encouraged by the downfall of Bo Xilai, who was dismissed as party chief of Chongqing, a region in the south-west, in March and expelled from the party in September.