Sentence examples for encouraging surrounding from inspiring English sources

Strategies aimed at increasing physical activity levels, such as encouraging surrounding populations to make use of new physical activity facilities or other changes to the built environment, are therefore of particular importance.

The market-shrine complex encouraged surrounding tribes to put aside their conflicts periodically and to visit and worship the deities of the Kaʿbah; but such worship, as in most complex societies, could not replace either the particularistic worship of small groups or the competing religious practices of other regional centres, such as al-Ṭāʾif.

Mohamed A. Kamara, head teacher at TDC Masaka, spoke of the club's efforts to encourage surrounding communities to become open defecation-free.

Head teacher of the school Mohamed A. Kamara describes the children's work to encourage surrounding communities to become open defecation free: "They go around not only in this community, but in other communities like 5-Mile, even Mayumto, on sensitization tours, telling people how to prevent disease.

Begin in your community, start encouraging the people surrounding you to look at education as a way of life not as a way of getting by.

The industry is undoubtably facing huge environmental and social challenges, but it's been encouraging to be surrounded by those in the industry driving change - or at least making positive noises about change.

One could imagine immigrants' belonging to be either discouraged or encouraged when the surrounding society is very patriotic.

It seems like semantics, but encouraging people to surround one place – parliament, on this occasion – and peacefully disrupt the state apparatus until a change is made, is a tactic that could be taken up by Occupy movements worldwide to a much better effect than sitting in tents in a park, making tea and playing guitar.