A year-round public encourages San Juan's diverse restaurants and shops, some first-rate and others just plain fun.
Even the police rely on reporting from the public, encouraging people to contact their local force or the cybercrime unit if they see suspicious behaviour on the internet.
Ideally, the actions of the central bank reassure the public, encouraging households to buy more and firms to make capital investments.
They fielded questions from the public, encouraging passers-by to "ask a priest anything," which led to lively conversations about faith, premarital sex and the differences among denominations.
The nonscientific public, encouraged by antievolutionists, contrasts "natural" with "designed," not realizing that a natural process such as natural selection can produce design, in the sense of complex, functioning structures.
With roads closed, buses rerouted, and public encouraged to leave town, businesses were deserted.
The generosity of all the participants, together with the response from the general public, encouraged Harrison to feel "very positive about certain things".
He was heavily guarded by soldiers and police, but still tried to interact with the public, encouraging those who tried to run to him by noticing them, and bowing to a group of loud young popcorn sellers.
Part of the issue was transparency, with the strikers holding their meetings in public, encouraging discussion and debate, while the committee held theirs inside the pub, away from both shareholders and staff.
If the public encouraged the Pentagon to send more troops in order to capitalize on our battlefield victories, perhaps America could have eventually worn down the North Vietnamese Army and kept the Saigon regime in power.
Turner says he is going public to encourage other victims to come forward.
