Sentence examples for he failed to encourage from inspiring English sources

When he failed to encourage enough senators to finance the building and maintenance of networks of roads in Italy, he undertook direct responsibility for them in 20 BC.

As a result, he failed to encourage the growth of political parties or state institutions, preferring to strike personal deals with warlords and other powerful individuals to keep a lid on the rivalries and prevent his government from collapsing.

But he completely failed to encourage investment in new industries, technologies or infrastructure.

He thinks that Britain has too few entrepreneurs, and has failed to encourage those that it has.In his budget this week the chancellor restated his belief that Britain suffers from a productivity gap and that closing it is the key to better economic performance.

He added the council had been a barrier to progress on this matter and had also failed to encourage stronger schools to convert to academy status.

Barely 1% of the Saudi children gained an "advanced" level, against 47% of South Korean and 8% of English ones.This suggests that Saudi schools are not just of generally poor quality, but that they fail to encourage brighter students.

Our manager's tried and failed to encourage us to do that.

There is also growing evidence that the welfare reforms have failed to encourage people into work.

Ali blames them all, but also the US, which failed to encourage democracy.

So why then are we appointing the same people who have failed to encourage (or force) countries to take major steps to bring peace to the Middle East?

So yesterday's report that construction of new homes rose a bigger-than-expected 2.8percentt in February, to its highest level since December 1998, failed to encourage much buying.