Sentence examples for encourages large from inspiring English sources

Government planning policy strongly encourages large supermarkets to be located in town centres.

The Times Square area, where the city encourages large, flashy signs, would be exempt from the new rules.

UK membership encourages large company capital investment within the UK, creating jobs and wealth that trickle down to medium and small company suppliers.

A year ago, the government started a "Think, Act, Report" initiative, a program that encourages large companies "to examine their recruitment, retention and remuneration policies".

It deprives a fire-prone land of the good fires it needs -- small and contained, in areas where fuels have grown up naturally -- and encourages large fires that can savage it.

Although it does alleviate some drug costs, it is badly constructed (with its "donut hole"), and encourages large pharmaceutical profits rather than intelligent drug selection, while limiting the kind of bargaining for reasonable prices undertaken by the health system for veterans.

The difference in price compared with neighbouring countries – Tunisia and Morocco – encourages large-scale smuggling on the eastern and western borders.

But officials say they hope the model encourages larger states to take similar steps.

Some commentators explain its healthy birthrate in terms of the relatively conservative and religiously oriented nature of American society, which both encourages larger families.

Most federal farm spending supports and encourages large-scale industrial farming, dependent on chemical pesticides and fertilizers that pollute streams, rivers and lakes.

This category also encourages large-scale image informatics methods/applications/software, various enabling techniques (e.g. cyber-infrastructures, quantitative validation experiments, pattern recognition, etc).