Sentence examples for only encouraged from inspiring English sources

Insults in Spanish only encouraged them.

But it only encouraged Hitler to rearm.

Each successive milestone only encouraged him to go bigger still.

Its cozy games with Iran only encouraged Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Mrs. Bachmann's victory in the Iowa straw poll has only encouraged her extremism.

His agrarian reform measures only encouraged English speculation in Irish land.

That approach has only encouraged more seizures of property, his critics complain.

Taxing yacht owners, for instance, only encouraged them to moor their boats elsewhere, emptying Greek marinas.

His name only encouraged the naughty wordplay—"Congressional Member", "Weiner's pickle"—used to ridicule him.

Building a consensus with our friends before we acted only encouraged quarrelsomeness.

Market forces have only encouraged cable companies to keep raising prices with impunity.