Sentence examples for friends encouraging from inspiring English sources

He solicited columns from friends, encouraging them to mention as many names as possible.

Each nearly hourlong show features interviews with family members and friends, encouraging viewers to call or text an anonymous tip line.

So here's an interesting moral dilemma: I got e-mails last week from Saudi and Egyptian friends encouraging me to write a column about the Saudi poet who had been thrown in jail for writing a fiery poem attacking Saudi judges as corrupt.

But there's a flip side to the grief cycle of survivorship: everyone who gets sicker instead of better needs empathy more than I don't need pain, because I'm the lucky one – I'm healthy, and I've had wonderful, caring friends encouraging me the whole time, including people I've only known digitally, and people who live far away.

I ask Reid about a line in A Scattering in which he writes, with great love, about Lucinda's performance in her last days in the hospice: It was inspired brave, funny and subtle of her to interpret the role of patient so flat against type – cheering her nurses, feeding advice and support to friends, encouraging her husband to address his possible future with something of her hope.

Without a physical presence, there weren't the social peer effects of friends encouraging us to attend our classes on time, or shaming us about our poor performance.

Her friends encouraged her to try to meet him.

Some friends encouraged him to return to California, and he did.

But his coach and his friends encouraged him to stay with the sport, and he did.

But looking back, he wonders why so many friends encouraged him to buy a house.

When she died, he was devastated and friends encouraged him to remarry.