John Kerry, the US secretary of state, is trying to encourage the main candidates in Nigeria's upcoming presidential vote to accept the results without the threat of post-election violence.
I would always help him remove all the earwigs from the heads of chrysanthemums and nip the little extra shoots out off the tomatoes to encourage the main fruit to grow.
"Yet today the Supreme Court ruled that in 1984 the law took a wrong turn and has imposed a new equally simple test: to convict a secondary party it now must be proved beyond all reasonable doubt that they 'had an intention to assist or encourage the main party or offender'.
But we need to see a massive scaling up of credit unions and CDFIs as well as encourage the main high street and new challenger banks to serve poorer communities if we are going to keep the dogs from the school gates.
Moreover, we give a numerical example to encourage our main theorem.
It's helpful to "summarize and restate" or "repeat and encourage" the main points.
DfiD said it encourages its main suppliers to work with recipient country firms but that EU procurement regulations prevent the UK from setting independent targets for "buying locally".
But our system is encouraging the main parties to ignore a large swathe of voters and is chipping away at our basic right to participate meaningfully in politics, thus creating fertile soil for populists.
Larger trees that do not respond favourably to heavy annual pruning are trained best to a system that encourages the main leader branch to grow erect to a height of eight to 10 feet (2.4 3.0 metres), with four or five main lateral branches at intervals on its sides forming the scaffold that carries fruiting wood up and out; this is called a modified leader system.
His popularity encouraged the main political leaders to adopt policies in favor of the environment.
What better way to get this reform passed than by encouraging the main constituency for immigration reform, Americans of Latinos descent, to not participate in the elections? .
