Sentence examples for encouraged speculations from inspiring English sources

The wide popularity of his writings also encouraged speculations by others outside France, particularly in the Germanies.

This encouraged speculations about new forces, akin to those found in Newtonian mechanics, which would explain biological phenomena mechanistically (e.g., the formative force explaining the development of the embryo; see Look 2006, Richards 2000).

A long period of stability encouraged speculation.

The report has encouraged speculation that more projects will be approved.

This "asymmetric ignorance" has encouraged speculation and also landed central banks with a dilemma.

First, by slashing real interest rates, the Fed has encouraged speculation in commodities by reducing the cost of holding inventories.

The absence of a vice president has encouraged speculation about what would happen should Mr. de la Rúa resign.

Perhaps this was a meaningless workout, but it also encouraged speculation about how much Messier has left.

But that followed a set of speeches and public appearances in New Hampshire, which encouraged speculation that he is.

Ironically, the ideal of "the investigation of things" inherent in Chu Hsi philosophy encouraged speculation that inevitably led to questioning Chu Hsi orthodoxy itself.

First, by allowing anyone to trade, including those with no real interest in energy, the E.P.A. encouraged speculation, the critics say.