Sentence examples for encourage silent from inspiring English sources

Inmates were kept in separate cells built along an innovative, radial "wagon-wheel" design that was meant to encourage silent reflection and solitude as the means to rehabilitation.

To promote empathy and respect for human dignity Once Upon a Time… Reversing the sexes of characters in a well-known story To encourage gender equality Silent Speaker Read my lips!

Schultz doesn't want to be a "silent bystander," encourages the philosophy, "...staying silent is not who we are".

Through Jackie's story, and the stories of other U.V.A. women, Erdely illuminates how college administrators (at U.V.A. and elsewhere) and even women's-support groups can often, while purporting to empower victims, actually encourage them to remain silent.

I could not remain silent and encourage other women to be brave for me.

Switch your cellphone to silent and encourage the teen to do the same.

I don't know that you can encourage many women to be silent about much, but I want them to be silent in general, but just not about abuse.

The crowd, which had been totally silent, encouraged him.

It demands that each of us -- from dorm rooms and legislative desks, church pews and corner offices, city blocks and country roads -- ask if we're okay living like this? Can we dazedly watch our morning news knowing that the night before, on an idyllic college campus, a young woman was raped and encouraged to stay silent for fear of social retribution?

Students who completed the tests were encouraged to remain silent so as not to disturb the others or provide them hints for the answers.

"I have wondered how we can encourage mothers to stop keeping silent," said Hou Nirmita, the director of the Department of Women and Health in Cambodia's Ministry of Women's Affairs.