She was on a long plane flight reading Michael Moore's book "Dude, Where's My Country?" when she read a passage that encouraged musicians to use high-profile concerts to stump for Bush's ouster.
In the first reading of the passage, I encourage the students to read "philosophically," extracting an abstract, logical argument from the passage.
Unions have also voiced fears that passage would encourage American companies to move high-paying industrial jobs to China.
In many communities boys and girls are commemorating their Jewish rites of passage by encouraging acts of charity -- more accurately, "chesed," acts of selfless kindness.
Democrats, on the other hand, have done all they can to paint the governor into a political corner, prodding sympathetic newspaper editorial boards to demand the bill's passage and encouraging a coalition of 40 advocacy groups around the state to organize rallies to raise public awareness before the bill reaches Mr. Rowland's desk.
It's time to create a citywide permit system to allow vendors to sell on sidewalks and in parks, with rules to allow pedestrian passage, to encourage safe and nutritious food and to collect sales taxes to help city finances.
Under pressure from activist groups and corporate sponsors, the American Legislative Exchange Council on Tuesday announced a reorganization plan that will shutter its Public Safety and Elections Committee, which encouraged passage of "Stand Your Ground" laws and other controversial measures.
NC-20's Thompson says his group is happy with that approach, and encouraged passage.
He encouraged passage of a bill that required that violent offenders serve at least 85 percent of their sentences (up from the 50 percent previously mandated), while requiring that judges consider home incarceration for first-time, non-violent offenders.
As the year ended, environmentalists were encouraged by passage of the 35-mile-a-gallon fuel-economy standard by Congress, the first CAFE increases in three decades.
