"We are determined to encourage, protect and support families of all shapes and sizes, and to champion their importance to individual communities and to society more widely.
"I've never been in a place where I've been so vigorously encouraged, protected and valued," she said.
I am transported back to a time and place where these kinds of behaviors are encouraged, protected, and even "normal".
"We are working as closely as we can with local authorities to encourage and protect cricket.
Mexico City was a major beneficiary of the country's policy of import-substitution industrialization (ISI), by which domestic manufacturing was encouraged and protected through taxes and tariffs on imports.
On May 5th Cecilia Malmström, Europe's trade commissioner, revealed rules that she thinks will encourage and protect foreign investment without infringing the right of governments to pursue their public-policy priorities.
Not only are various opinions (particularly misconceptions about the gods and about the supposed terrors of death) to be discouraged, but various salutary opinions are to be encouraged and protected without having to be demonstrated to be true.
Olympus's treatment of Mr. Woodford also revealed the ineffectiveness of Japan's recent efforts to encourage and protect whistle-blowers in a business culture that has long advocated corporate loyalty and censured outspoken employees.
Recent scandals in the UK and the US show these two leading democracies have some way to go to encourage and protect people blowing the whistle on malpractice and illegality at work, say heads of civil society organisations.
"The coalition is cracking down on this smuggling, which was encouraged and protected under Saddam Hussein," L. Paul Bremer III, the civilian administrator for the occupying powers, said at a news conference in Baghdad today.
