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"My hope is to encourage kids to have a better appreciation of nature," he said.

During the portal fever of the late 1990s, analysts exhorted sites to add features to encourage "stickiness": the amount of time that users "eyeballs" were spent on the site.

On the contrary, Delta Sigma Theta, from its beginnings, has been an association of professional black collegiate women who encourage each other to dream big and to achieve more than is expected of them.

Members strongly encourage college attendance to young people.

The controversy could undermine enthusiasm for the Free File Alliance, an IRS-industry partnership started last year to encourage paper-free filing of tax returns.

Very likely the Powell and Myers statements were intended to encourage Taiwan’s president to keep the language of the missile referendum within bounds.

Supply a clearly printed recipe for the culinarily challenged, but encourage inspirational cooking here.

But the plan has drawn legitimate opposition from labor leaders who fear it will do nothing to stop exploitation of illegal immigrants and from critics who believe it will encourage another wave of illegal border crossings.

But although the fancy prices charged do little to encourage patronage it is more likely that cold economics are to blame.

They vowed if the plan was implemented they would encourage their members to not give the pension fund permission to insure their lives.

It’s a very unique program designed to encourage high school students to pursue careers in engineering.

"The easiest way to get votes is to encourage voters to have some easily identified hate figures," announces the Rt Rev Jonathan Gledhill, the Bishop of Lichfield, in his first New Year message.

Let us stand up for equal justice by curbing a runaway judiciary and encourage the General Court to put the constitutional checks upon them that are warranted by their oath of office.

A second phase of the Government's Phoenix Fund is envisaged to encourage specialist business support and entrepreneurship in disadvantaged areas and amongst disadvantaged groups.

The White House did not encourage Congress to be inventive.

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