Sentence examples for what encouraged from inspiring English sources

The increasing proliferation of smartphones is what encouraged executives at People.com to amend their approach to celebrity news.

The experimental measurements replicated the audible range of human hearing and sought to determine what encouraged experienced machinists to declare a machining process to be in a state of degradation.

So what encouraged me to write this, for that is what it was, encouragement and suggestion, that has brought me to share this with you?

What encouraged him to make the leap?

Her mother, a journalist, loved theatre, so took Garai often, which is what encouraged her to start acting at school.

It was what encouraged Max Arnow, the casting director of Warner Bros., to award Reagan a screen contract, in 1937.

Given that this suggests that continuities in methods coincided with this transformation in rates between 1870 and 1914, it is important to consider what either encouraged people to use these practices more consistently or made a higher proportion of adults willing to countenance their use.

What citizens are encouraged to do or not do has to become part of an urgent national debate.

What no doubt encouraged shareholders was news that BHP was adding a massive $10 billion to its share buyback program.

"We are very encouraged, knowing what is going on in the world".

I was actually, on balance, quite encouraged by what I saw there and where I think it's going.