Sentence examples for countries encouraged from inspiring English sources

Several European countries, encouraged by Mr Khatami's leanings, have sent trade delegations to Iran.

In past years, Western countries encouraged rights-respecting states from other regions to compete for election.

In the old world order, some countries encouraged the use of performance-enhancing drugs as evidenced by East Germany's institutionalized doping experiments.

So did entire nations: eastern European countries provided government aid to athletes, other countries encouraged military personnel to concentrate on track-and-field training, and U.S. athletes received college scholarships in return for their skills.

While America wrangles, European countries, encouraged by a unanimous UN security council endorsement, are busily mending fences with Iran, keen not to miss out on potentially mouth-watering financial, trade and geopolitical dividends.

Some of the Grady dialysis patients have chosen to return to their countries, encouraged by the hospital's offer of free airfare, cash payments, three months of paid dialysis and assistance in seeking insurance or other long-term remedies.

Speaking in Sochi, Russia, Mr. Lavrov said that those countries "encourage, support and direct the armed fight against the regime".

Pension schemes in many countries encourage early retirement in effect, levying an implicit tax on remaining in work in your 60s.

There is evidence that cross-border banking relationships between pairs of countries encourage other types of capital flow; reduce them, and the other flows may dry up too.

Bill Gates, a philanthropist whose foundation does a lot of work on disease control in poor countries, encourages this idea in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.

In America, one of many countries encouraging the use of such alternatives, biofuel distilleries account for about one-fifth of the corn crop thanks in part to subsidies.