Sentence examples for this year encouraged from inspiring English sources

The threat of fewer jobs for school leavers this year encouraged more than 660,000 A-level students to apply, 12% more than last year.

Cuts in interest rates and more relaxed lending rules introduced this year encouraged investors to storm the stock market, sending the Shanghai Composite index soaring by 150%.

With a supportive boss, Kuralay decided to return this year, encouraged by the prospect of reuniting with fellow Matildas veterans Thea Slatyer, who she's known for 15 years, and Melissa Barbieri, who she's played alongside since she was 13.

More and more of the 'AB' classes are joining the vulnerable in playing the odds, as Neasa MacErlean reports If the experts are right, more of us are likely to go abroad on holiday this year – encouraged by a possible upturn in the economy and hoping to find some good weather overseas.

To try to revive things and to give people another, easier way to protest the school, organizers this year encouraged the willing to cross outside the permitted event parameters and take to the streets of Columbus as an act of civil disobedience.

Meanwhile, the Poetry by Heart competition begun in 2012 by former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion this year encouraged pupils from 333 schools to rekindle the ancient art – not as an empty ritual, but as a creative means, argues Motion, of "finding pleasure and confidence in a part of the curriculum where such things can be in short supply".

The guide, which leaked publicly earlier this year, encouraged each reporter to write up to 10 stories a day and to focus coverage on topics that generated more traffic.

Name: Site 4 Self Build Area: South Yorkshire Website: http://www.site4selfbuild.co.uk/ I established my business earlier this year, encouraged by a realisation in government that the housing sector needed a boost and that part of that uplift could be achieved by supporting people who want to build their own home.

The Alfred Dock, opened in 1870, encouraged shipping.

In 1745, encouraged by Voltaire, Marmontel settled in Paris.

On October 31st, encouraged by the bonus, he rode north.