Sentence examples for encouraging measure from inspiring English sources

"There is an encouraging measure of unity among our diverse population," wrote Grassby.

One morning in February, I wrote about a tentatively encouraging measure of China's economic health: a new shop selling shaobing, Beijing's delicious flaky sesame pastries, had opened a few doors from my house on Mianhua Hutong.

Currently, it ranks 128th over all and 63rd among public universities, an imprecise but encouraging measure that is far more heartening and far less known than its No. 1 ranking in the Bowl Championship Series standings.

The overwhelmingly supportive response to Jason Collins, who came out last week as the first openly gay male athlete playing in a major American team sport, is an encouraging measure of the nation's civil rights progress.

By Evan Osnos April 20, 2009 One morning in February, I wrote about a tentatively encouraging measure of China's economic health: a new shop selling shaobing, Beijing's delicious flaky sesame pastries, had opened a few doors from my house on Mianhua Hutong.

Another way may be to focus on protection against passive smoking as an introductory activity, thereby encouraging measures to reduce opportunities to smoke before a more strict smoking ban could be applied.

But they could be leading a concerted effort to minimise the damage and encourage measures to cuts costs without affecting front-line services.

In return, the European Commission and the member states agree to consider legal migration possibilities, to assist third countries by building their capacities to manage migration flows, to encourage measures to counteract brain drain and finally, to facilitate the procedures for the Schengen visas.

According to the resolution, the U.N. Special Representative would "encourage" and "promote" measures to improve Iraqi welfare.

Rather than encouraging U.S. measures that "threaten the security and peace of the Korean peninsula," Seoul should instead respond to overtures from the North, Kim said.

Thus, aligning Western interests with a secular dictator has been seen as preferable to encouraging democratic measures that would accommodate the interests of so-called unreliable and dangerous Islamists.