Sentence examples for half encouraged from inspiring English sources

About half of the liberal parties and movements stayed off of Tahrir Square Friday, and half encouraged their members to demonstrate.

I'm half encouraged that studios are finally catering to older audiences, while proving that older actors can still draw in the kids.

The fault lies with artists and with the elevator industry itself, which has for a century and a half encouraged fear by focussing its marketing relentlessly on the question of safety, and with narratives that focus on rare exceptions of accidents and mechanical failures, like Nicholas White's experience of getting stuck.

When researchers examined policy information for more than 20 H.M.O.'s, they said, they found that one required pretreatment authorization and that almost half encouraged prior approval.

More than half encouraged brief advice in existing health care services (n = 68, 56%), while only 44 (36%) had quitlines and only 20 (17%) had a network of treatment support covering the whole country.

There was little in the first half to encourage Wales, after the heights of victory in Dublin a week earlier.

New Jersey also offers communities within specified "urban enterprise zones" the opportunity to cut the state's 7percentt sales tax in half to encourage commerce within their boundaries.

And I went to the bridge, the walking bridges, every morning about 6 o'clock for an hour or so, and every evening around 5 o'clock for about an hour and a half to encourage people to walk over the bridges.

However, by missing the other half, and encouraging consumers to face this epidemic alone, they got a major part of the story wrong.

The service will also help Americans be Americans: from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Election Day, Zipcar will reduce all reservation fees by half to encourage Miami to hit the polls.

My better half, Jason, encourages me not to use my "old-man-deaf-whisper" and share every thought I have when my kids are playing sports -- that other parents sometimes turn and stare at me in disbelief.