Sentence examples for point of encouraging from inspiring English sources

Even when that is the case, he makes a point of encouraging a fresh start.

"What's the point of encouraging old people to have sex?" he asked in a recent interview.

Mr Chafee made a point of encouraging Democrats to disaffiliate from their party for the day in order to vote for him.

Students at Occidental tend to be Democrats, so the college makes a point of encouraging those with more conservative views to take advantage of the program.

Today's guides also make a point of encouraging groups to focus first on the animals, leaving any unpleasant message for later.

The entire point of encouraging social mobility is that people have different talents and we need to do better at ensuring they make the most of them.

But the biggest problem of the deckway, the SkyCycle, the tunnels, and all similar schemes is this: one of the main points of encouraging more cycling in a city is to make it more people-friendly.

THOSE who see legal reform in China as a half-full glass point to encouraging signs of progress including to some of the harshest and most easily abused features of the nation's criminal code.

We might be pleased, or pat ourselves on the back for the really excellent parenting that produced such a nice kid, but I doubt that most parents make a point of actively encouraging altruistic behavior.

Lecturer 1 particularly, told several narratives which seemed to be promoting the patient's point of view, encouraging students to step inside a patient's shoes.

Etzkowitz goes on to point out that many of the firms that chose to locate there were already close to the university: "The park was the end result, not the starting point, of a process of encouraging the creation of an organizational capacity and ethos to form firms around the university".