Sentence examples for encourage timid from inspiring English sources

But Oliver's puckish energy and genuinely handsome and approachable recipes may well encourage timid cooks into the kitchen.

While the underlying mechanisms pertaining to why Twitter promotes an understanding of content and application of knowledge are not entirely clear, Tiernan (2014) suggests that one possible reason may be that Twitter helps to break down communication barriers, encouraging shy or timid students to participate in discussions that ultimately are richer in dialogue and debate.

Elsewhere, rippling piano and harp set against strings support his musings about evangelism in "God", while "Jump" encourages the timid to "throw caution to the wind" and try something new.

Blighted neighbourhoods could be miraculously transformed by incentivising the arrival of the "creative class" of artists, gay couples and brave bohemians: those frontline pioneers who would take on rundown buildings and seed the pop-up micro-breweries, artisanal bakeries and farmers' markets that would encourage the more timid middle classes to follow.

These may encourage the hesitant or timid, showing that "protesters are not hooligans or terrorists but people just like you," says Ethan Zuckerman of MIT.

President Clinton's government has taken a few timid steps to encourage more "people-to-people" contact.

The scientists also found that by increasing or inhibiting certain chemicals in the brain, they could encourage scouting behavior in otherwise timid bees, and suppress it in the thrill seekers.

So they are timid, and timidity encourages incrementalism like "inventing" a variant on slots, or a slightly turned-around version of bingo.

A timid response will only encourage an even harsher clampdown.

It will regrow from the old wood, so don't be timid - cut hard to encourage vigorous new growth and mulch with a good few inches of garden compost.

"It suggests that seriously challenging the nuclear venture will come not from more timid sanctions now, but from measures that encourage the pragmatists who populate the fractious Iranian government to promote normalization".