Sentence examples for encourage false from inspiring English sources

Critics argue that the police encourage false allegations by suggesting the names of potential abusers.

Taking care not to encourage false hopes, he stopped well short of predicting that good times were around the corner.

The lawyers say that the ratio would be unfairly complex to calculate and could encourage false comparisons.

The strangeness of reality consistently exceeds the expectations of science, and the assumptions of science, however tried and rational, are very inclined to encourage false expectations.

The congressman said he was concerned that the database would encourage false accusations about good products and that the registry would increase the E.P.A.'s power and cost jobs.

Fletcher, who watched the disaster with a stony face, is an intelligent man and has been a brilliant coach for England over seven years: as such he must know that his side have been treading water all winter, the win in the one-day series in Australia a piece of camouflage on a dire winter, a dollop of make-up to hide the blemishes and encourage false expectation in some quarters.

But they do encourage false-positive results, stigmatise the "bad apple" athletes who are caught, and tilt the playing field toward the best-financed athletes and teams that can afford the best doctors, critics say.

A few were cruel, but, in that weird world where anonymity encourages false bravado, they were mostly laughed down by their peers.

Perhaps the speed of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, and the passivity with which Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak accepted their fate, encouraged false confidence in western capitals about the Libyan outcome.

Some accountants and tax lawyers warn that the lure of big money awards could taint the process, even encouraging false accusations from unscrupulous business rivals, or disgruntled employees looking to cash in.

Though I have the greatest admiration for many titled men and women and for their work and influence, it seems to me that in practice, despite certain advantages, the system encourages false values among our people, and that our generation needs above everything to see and aim at true values.