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How to use the word encouraging in a Sentence?

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A subtle but effective way of encouraging an irregular voter is by slightly altering your vocabulary when you ask questions. For reasons that are unclear, people’s internal identity is only loosely connected to their actions—until they’re reminded of the discrepancy between the two. Use that to your advantage by emphasizing the identity of being a voter rather than the act of voting.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

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10 months ago

A subtle but effective way of encouraging an irregular voter is by slightly altering your vocabulary when you ask questions. For reasons that are unclear, people’s internal identity is only loosely connected to their actions—until they’re reminded of the discrepancy between the two. Use that to your advantage by emphasizing the identity of being a voter rather than the act of voting.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

While it’s encouraging, it’s great, the long-term trend here has been continued drought and water shortages, but there’s a chance even with a good water year that it just kind of pushes the curve out a few months and we have to continue our planning process accordingly.

Tommy Beaudreau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In what I think is the unlikely chance that he ultimately decides not to run this time, he will need to do so soon enough that other candidates can get into the field to be competitive, i am encouraging him to run, and I think he will run. But he will make that decision on his timeline, not mine.

Chris Coons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[These bills] rely on this sort of paranoid idea that teachers are secretly encouraging your kids to identify as trans, and then not telling you about it, it’s fundamentally important that all young people feel they can build trust with the people that they spend most of their day with, which are their teachers.

Gillian Branstetter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s good news for a very strained and stressed system, but Images Senators probably need five, six or maybe 10 more years of this to really make a big dent in the situation there, but this is much more encouraging to see.

Mario Tama/Getty Images Hatchett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can have a better strategy for optimizing any modifiable risk factors, with public health promotion campaigns, encouraging smoking cessation, vaccination and healthy weight management in the target population.

Eleana Ntatsaki

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s long been known that eating a Mediterranean-style is good for your heart, but it’s encouraging to see this research suggest that when we look at women separately from men, the benefits remain.

Victoria Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Adams was encouraging the student-athlete to be more receptive to coaching and referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters. Adams immediately addressed this with the team and apologized, upon learning of the incident, Hocutt addressed this matter with Adams and issued him a written reprimand. Hocutt subsequently made the decision to suspend Adams effective immediately in order to conduct a more thorough inquiry of Adams’ interactions with his players and staff.

Texas Tech statement

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He is being looked at very closely now, we have seen a number of the Senate staffers say, ‘We are taking this very seriously. This is something that I will personally speak to the senator about.’ We take that as very encouraging language.

Chessy Prout

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Recent studies have shown irregularity in sleep timing and duration have been linked to metabolic abnormalities and higher cardiovascular disease risk, encouraging maintenance of regular sleep schedules with consistent sleep durations may be an important part of lifestyle recommendations for the prevention of heart disease.

Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was nice that I had this unbelievable pairing, two great guys, two great friends, it was a great round. The ebb and flow of needling each other, encouraging each other and telling stories. Because I hadn’t been out here so I’ve missed some of the things that have transpired on Tour, which is kind of fun.

Tiger Woods

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The FDA should be encouraging industry to work harder to reduce hazardous lead and other heavy metals in baby food given how vulnerable young children are to toxic exposure.

Brian Ronholm

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Taiwan makes their own judgments about their independence. We are not moving – we're not encouraging their being independent. We're not – that – that's their decision.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It really matters which one it is. If your kid is functioning overall, they are doing the basics, they have some friends, then be encouraging, but don't overstress on everything they are not doing, sometimes doing that stops us from focusing on the things they are doing.

Eli Lebowitz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At one point the State Department spokesperson Ned Price was encouraging people to make their way to the airport and telling the press the evacuation was' efficient and effective,' but the airport gates were closed, and internal memos were talking about how there were too many dead bodies at the airport and they don't know how to deal with all of them.

Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In managing that fund, public employees will be assisting or encouraging abortion by processing claims for public funds to cover costs incurred in obtaining abortions.

Eric Schmitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This area, Landaff and Easton, is about 5 miles away from where Maura’s car was found, and it's in the easterly direction, the direction she was headed. The other encouraging point to this news is the fact that this was the focal point of a very early search back in May of 2004 from a local tip that stated a local saw a ‘young person running or moving quickly’ along that stretch of road. So for all of those reasons, this is really encouraging news from her family.

Julie Murray

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They were really cool. And they were encouraging and helpful. It was really fun. if there was a time where he couldn’t do it, they did it as a team.

Tori Short

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So far, the government seems to be walking a line of maintaining friendly relationships with Russia without encouraging or directing Chinese firms to increase business with the country, and discouraging anything that might run afoul of the sanctions imposed on China, this line does mean that China's imports from Russia are likely to grow simply on market basis, as other buyers move to embargo Russian fossil fuels.

Lauri Myllyvirta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Anybody who hung around him today would be encouraging him to run again -- he was strong, focused and ready for the fight, i agree with him that Utah Democrats would be lucky to have Trump again. But if they do, it's all the more reason to have Joe Biden.

Mike Duggan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Higher rents are encouraging many tenants to take a second look at buying a home, especially in cities where a mortgage payment may be on par or lower than monthly rent, on the other hand, the for-sale market continues to be undersupplied, making it difficult to find an affordable home.

George Ratiu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I just kept encouraging him, like he said, he was in denial. He didn’t want to do the transplant. And I often said, ‘Do it, do it, do it. It’s great on the other side. After you get it done and you go through your recovery … you’ll have your life back.’.

Donald Crigler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our toughest moment will likely come in late March or early April, one encouraging sign that the growth in serious illnesses has been actually slower than expected, which possibly shows the effectiveness of oral antiviral treatments.

Jaehun Jung

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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