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And their personal beliefs also encouraged a bit of wishful thinking – they didn't want to get it.

"I was hoping the pressure of the numbers of people and foreign visitors would have encouraged a bit more openness," she says.

And while the park managers only encouraged a bit of spooning in the tunnel of love or a little hoochie-coochie in their dance halls, visitors could easily go to the Bowery — as Coney Island's main strip was known — and rent a room in a hotel, visit a beer garden, or have "smoke" in a cigar shop.

Writing for The Times, television critic Mary McNamara argued that although Rock didn't land every joke, he encouraged a bit of reflection on what is typically a night for the film industry to pat itself on the back.

Perhaps a visit to the Wallenberg exhibition would encourage a bit more tolerance.

The music was never intrusive yet peppy enough to encourage a bit of dancing.

The central bank might boost the economy by encouraging a bit of inflation, he said, but that would be a second-best solution.

No one expects Operation Bombshell to save marriages, though if it encourages a bit of hanky-panky, that would be fine, Ms. Burana figures.

ff2595f6-5b81-4906-894c-f795db041997 The Learning Network is taking it slow this month, and we hope you are too — though of course we can't help but encourage a bit of learning as you go.

Instead, Mr. Horn played nice, nudging the 1960's-obsessed band a few baby steps closer to the present day -- they've made it all the way to 1978 -- and encouraging a bit more stylistic range.

And through its influence at the International Monetary Fund, which is one of Greece's big creditors, it could encourage a bit of flexibility in discussions with whatever government emerges in Athens.