Sentence examples for encourage weak from inspiring English sources

One unscrupulous trick, says Don Hossler, vice chancellor for enrollment services at Indiana University, is to encourage weak students to apply so that when they are rejected, the institution looks more selective.

"Weak markets encourage weak companies to buy back stock," said Carol Bruckner Coles, president of Mitchell & Company, a consulting firm in Waltham, Mass., that did a study of the stock buybacks after the 1987 crash.

Jörg Rocholl, president of the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, said there was a danger that the central bank cash would encourage weak banks to take outsize risks in a desperate bid to make up losses.

Huge trade surpluses helped to drive incomes upwards, and egalitarian business practices allowed domestic companies to siphon off much of the wealth.After more than a decade of stagnation, the main problem with these sectors now is a socialised financial system that does not encourage weak firms to go out of business.

Bankers say the government appears to be using the investment program both to spur healthier banks to do deals and to encourage weaker institutions to consider selling themselves.

Some banks may face market pressure to stock up on capital sooner, and the rules could encourage weaker banks in the United States and elsewhere to merge with stronger partners.

The Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, which encourages weak governments to limp along, should go.More fundamentally, mainstream politicians must deal with the fear and resentment that is driving voters away.

A weak exchange rate, by contrast, encourages consumers to switch from pricey imports to cheaper home-produced goods and services.

"It is true that the elements involved in the explosion were a couple of misled and radical Sunnis, but everyone knows that these people are the puppets of the occupying forces, who incur heavy costs, design very accurate plans and encourage such weak persons to do whatever they want," read an editorial in the Iranian paper Jomhuri-ye Eslami.

Now as humans, we want to help and encourage the weak, the downtrodden, the sad, the upset, the bullied, because nurturing is also part of our nature.

The frenzy has encouraged some weak Chinese firms to float.