The foreign media was complicit in encouraging the perception that the militiamen had overcome Gaddafi through their own strength.
They feared being too overt and encouraging the perception that World War II was a "Jewish war".
For Russia, the Petya attack could be a means of encouraging the perception of Ukraine as a failed state — a view that aligns with Russian interests.
By midsummer, Congress, not the President, was shaping health-care legislation, and the President's vacillating estimates for the cost of the bill were encouraging the perception that the proposal was unrealistic.
But mostly they seem to accept the arguments put forward by BlackRock and its lobbyists.Mr Fink encourages the perception that the company is merely big, not special perhaps even a little dull.
This difference may or may not come to mean a lot to insomniacs, but Merck's marketing is likely to encourage the perception that suvorexant ends the dance by turning off the music, whereas a drug like Ambien knocks the dancer senseless.
Harold O. Levy, the interim schools chancellor, would not comment on the dispute yesterday, although some board members said they were concerned that it could damage his standing, if only because it encourages the perception that public education in New York City is constantly held hostage to union and mayoral politics.
And even encouraging the perception that they are under consideration might be more a matter of appearance than political reality: the mere impression that Mr. McCain is considering a running mate from Florida, for example, could help him in a critical state where he campaigned on Wednesday.
Surely hoping to encourage the perception that Internet-connected TVs are de facto 'Netflix boxes', the on-demand streaming service is setting up a recommendation program for consumers wishing to identify the Internet TVs that are most Netflix friendly.
