Encouragement Sentence Examples

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  • You took that as encouragement, didn't you?

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  • His gentle tug was all the encouragement she needed.

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  • We can draw lessons and encouragement from the histories of polio and smallpox, on several counts.

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  • Maybe it's because he's getting too much encouragement from you.

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  • He did act hesitant about it, but his encouragement sounded sincere.

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  • She was the one who had become serious - and with little encouragement on his part.

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  • Destiny didn't need any encouragement.

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  • The results are full of encouragement.

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  • All we can reasonably believe is that he gave encouragement to poetry as he had done to architecture and the drama; Onomacritus, the chief of the Orphic succession, and collector of the oracles of Musaeus, was a member of his household.

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  • But he gave secret encouragement to the movement, and ended by practically directing its activity through La Farina.

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  • For the encouragement of research and literary style the government awards periodical prizes which are very keenly contested.

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  • The branches of industry which have received special encouragement are those whose products are in universal request, such as cotton and woollen goods, and those which are in the service of natural production.

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  • Meanwhile events in Great Britain had once more taken a turn which gave encouragement to the disaffected Boers.

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  • Generals Botha, De Wet and De la Rey, however, paid a visit to England (August - September, 1902) in an unsuccessful endeavour to get the terms of peace modified in their favour; they received little encouragement from a tour they made on the continent of Europe.

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  • In 1828 he became a member of the government commission established for the encouragement of literature.

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  • The Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi, was established in 1754 for the encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce.

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  • This has been recognized from the earliest times, and laws have been framed in all countries for the encouragement of mining enterprise.

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  • But in most cases it has been found better policy for the state to divest itself of all interest in mining property, and to extend all possible encouragement to those who undertake the development of the mineral wealth of the nation.

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  • The situation on the iith offered little encouragement to the invaders.

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  • As president he was punctilious in the discharge of his duties, ready to give help and encouragement to artists young and old, and his tenure of the office was marked by some wise and liberal reforms. He frequently went abroad, generally to Italy, where he was well known and appreciated.

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  • The industry is protected by a high tariff, as is also the production of raw cotton, and further encouragement is offered through a remission of internal revenue taxes where Mexican fabrics are exported for foreign consumption.

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  • Of the numerous institutions for the encouragement of the sciences and the fine arts, the following are strictly national - the Royal Academy of Sciences (1855), the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (1854), the National Academy of the Plastic Arts, the Royal School of Music, the National Archives, besides various other national collections and museums. Provincial scientific societies exist at Middelburg, Utrecht, 's Hertogenbosch and Leeuwarden, and there are private and municipal associations, institutions and collections in a large number of the smaller towns.

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  • This attitude of the Catholics was caused by Pitt's encouragement of the expectation that Catholic emancipation, the commutation of tithes, and the endowment of the Catholic priesthood, would accompany or quickly follow the passing of the measure.

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  • Being of a bold disposition, and the trees favouring its mode of life often growing near houses, it will become on slight encouragement familiar with men; and its neat attire of ash-grey and warm buff, together with its sprightly gestures, render it an attractive visitor.

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  • It was also under Mehemet Alls encouragement that the overland transit of goods from Europe to India via Egypt was resumed.

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  • Every possible facility and every encouragement are afforded for the Egyptians to advance along the path of moral improvement.

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  • From the Young Turks, however, the deputation received no encouragement for their agitation and returned with the advice to work in co-operation with the British.

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  • All kinds of manufacture, too, particularly that of silk, owed much to his encouragement.

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  • The tsar in his turn protested against Napoleon's encouragement of the Poles.

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  • Nevertheless, to the encouragement given by Henry VIII.

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  • Within sixty years this area had declined to 734,490 acres, but with renewed attention to forestry and encouragement of planting the area had grown in 1895 to 878,675 acres; by 1905, however, the acreage was practically unchanged.

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  • The Union gave a considerable impetus to the manufacture, as did also the establishment of the Board of Manufactures in 1727, which applied an annual sum of £2650 to its encouragement, and in 1729 established a colony of French Protestants in Edinburgh, on the site of the present Picardy Place, to teach the spinning and weaving of cambric. From the 1st of November 1727 to the 1st of November 1728 the amount of linen cloth stamped was 2,183,978 yds., valued at £103,312, but for the year ending the 1st of November 1822, when the regulations as to the inspection and stamping of linen ceased, it had increased to 36,268,530 yds., valued at £1,396,296.

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  • Says Murray, " there was not the least ground for encouragement," but, thanks to Balhaldie, Louis XV.

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  • It is not to be expected that an art-revival following on, and in possession of, all the results of a period of unprecedented activity in scientific research should proceed with the same restraint as heretofore; but the unfettered activity, and the general encouragement to abandon the traditions of art, have no exact parallel in the past, and may yet prove a danger.

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  • There was the paternalism of a Frederick the Great in his encouragement of the silk industry, - "which all idle people ought to be made to work at," - in his encouragement of commerce through the newly acquired port of Marseilles and the opening up of market placed.

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  • This document is preserved in the family archives as a guidance and encouragement to the child through life.

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  • Poetry, philology, philosophy all flourished under his encouragement, and his name was handed down to posterity as the first of the many Spanish Jews who combined diplomatic skill with artistic culture.

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  • His first historical enterprise was interrupted by the French Revolution, which forced him to take refuge in England, where he took the opportunity of examining a vast mass of original documents in the Tower and elsewhere, and received much encouragement, from Sir Walter Scott among others.

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  • Not far from the White House is the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1894-1897; architect, Ernest Flagg), of white Georgia marble in a Neo-Grecian style, housing a collection of paintings (especially American portraits) and statuary; the gallery was founded and endowed in 1869 by William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888) "for the perpetual establishment and encouragement of the Fine Arts."

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  • The truce of the third book is broken by Pandarus, and Agamemnon passes along the Greek ranks with words of encouragement, but without a hint of the treachery just committed.

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  • In New Zealand the consequences of the cessation of special encouragement to emigration were still more marked, the foreign-born declining in proportion from 63 to 33%.

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  • Encouragement was given to the building of ships in France by allowing a premium on those built at home, and imposing a duty on those brought from abroad; and as French workmen were forbidden to emigrate, so French seamen were forbidden to serve foreigners on pain of death.

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  • In spite of all the encouragement of the court, drama did not flourish in Sweden.

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  • Huxley's conclusions as regards the future of the oyster industry in Great Britain are doubtless just as applicable to other countries - that the only hope for the oyster consumer lies in the encouragement of oyster-culture, and in the development of some means of breeding oysters under such conditions that the spat shall be safely deposited.

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  • Besides his anti-clerical pamphlets his minor writings include much discussion of social questions, of the organization of savings banks, asylums, &c., and he founded the Societe Callier for the encouragement of thrift among the working classes.

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  • In 1830, Arago, who always professed liberal opinions of the extreme republican type, was elected a member of the chamber of deputies for the Lower Seine, and he employed his splendid gifts of eloquence and scientific knowledge in all questions connected with public education, the rewards of inventors, and the encouragement of the mechanical and practical sciences.

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  • He is said to have spent his long reign in the building of reservoirs, bridges and canals; in the promotion of agriculture, horticulture and manufactures; in the establishment of schools and colleges; and in the maintenance of justice and the encouragement of virtue.

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  • Moreover, the English policy, which first of all was concerned with the profits of trade and manufacture, gave little more encouragement to the settlement of this section of the country than did the French.

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  • We must imagine him devoted to the great task which he had set himself to perform, with a mind free from all disturbing cares, and in the enjoyment of all the facilities for study afforded by the Rome of Augustus, with its liberal encouragement of letters, its newlyf ounded libraries and its brilliant literary circles.

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  • Under the encouragement of an act of the legislature passed in 1 794 several academies were established.

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  • Although Maine has no coal and only a very small amount of iron ore within her borders for the encouragement of manufacturing, yet the abundance of fine timber and the numerous coves, bays and navigable streams along or near the coast promoted ship-building from the first, and this was the leading industry of the state until about the middle of the 19th century, when wooden ships began to be supplanted by those of iron and steel.

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  • Induced by the encouragement of his mathematical friends in England, Plucker in 1865 returned to the field in which he first became famous, and adorned it by one more great achievement - the invention of what is now called "line geometry."

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  • Silkworm breeding, formerly a prosperous industry, has decayed, despite the encouragement of a state farm at New Marghelan.

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  • His protection and encouragement of Caxton were of inestimable value to English literature, and in the preface to the Dictes the printer gives an account of his own relations with the statesman which illustrates the dignity and modesty of Lord Rivers in a very agreeable way.

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  • The most important compositions of this period of Mackenzie's life were the Quartette in E flat for piano and strings, Op. 11, and an overture, Cervantes, which owed its first performance to the encouragement and help of von Billow.

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  • One of his pamphlets against the latter (The Public Spirit of the Whigs set forth in their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis, 1714) was near involving him in a prosecution, some invectives against the Scottish peers having proved so exasperating to Argyll and others that they repaired to the queen to demand the punishment of the author, of whose identity there could be no doubt, although, like all Swift's writings, except the Proposal for the Extension of Religion, the pamphlet had been published anonymously.

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  • Of him it may be said with perfect truth, "He went about doing good"; and not with his money merely, but also with his presence and his encouragement.

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  • The plot was detected, being revealed, it is said, by the earl of March himself, who does not appear to have given it any encouragement; the earl of Cambridge was beheaded.

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  • About this time he ventured to send in to the Academy a translation of the passage from Homer proposed for their prize, and, though his attempt passed without notice, he received so much encouragement from his friends that he contemplated translating the whole of the Iliad.

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  • After nearly four months of strenuous opposition to the bill in Parliament, he renewed and strengthened his encouragement to Ulster by declaring, at a large Unionist gathering at Blenheim on July 27, that the Ulster people would submit to no ascendancy, and that he could imagine no lengths of resistance to which they might go in which he would not be ready to support them, and in which they would not be supported by the overwhelming majority of the British people.

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  • But on the departure of the fleet the scattered bands returned, and encouragement was given to their countrymen in Santo Domingo.

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  • The Knights of the Golden Circle at first confined their activities to the encouragement of desertion, and resistance to the draft, but in 1864 a plot to overthrow the state government was discovered, and Governor Morton's prompt action resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of arms and ammunition, and the arrest, trial and conviction of several of the leaders.

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  • With Philip's encouragement he drafted that scheme of ecclesiastical reform for which he is famous.

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  • The Liberals had long arrears to make up in their political programme, and their supremacy in the House of Commons was an encouragement to assert their views in legislation.

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  • He gave to his birthplace the free library and public baths, and, in 1903, the estate of Pittencrieff Park and Glen, rich in historical associations as well as natural charm, together with bonds yielding 25,000 a year, in trust for the maintenance of the park, the support of a theatre for the production of plays of the highest merit, the periodical exhibitions of works of art and science, the promotion of horticulture among the working classes and the encouragement of technical education in the district.

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  • Bishops are often their visitors, and Church Congresses, Convocation and Lambeth Conferences have given them encouragement and regulation.

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  • But no foreign ruler, not even the emperor Leopold II., gave the king or queen any encouragement.

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  • In 1838 he obtained the pension Suard, a bursary of 150o francs a year for three years, for the encouragement of young men of promise, which was in the gift of the academy of Besancon.

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  • He obtained very little support in Germany, however, while the suspicion that he favoured heresy deprived him of encouragement from the pope.

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  • Little encouragement can therefore be given in Ireland to the popular belief in vast hidden coalfields.

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  • This increase in the number of pupils engaged in the higher studies is probably due to a large extent to the scheme for the encouragement of intermediate education which was established by act of parliament in 1879.

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  • The new chief secretary, while abstaining from displacing the undersecretary, whose encouragement of " devolution " had caused considerable commotion among Unionists, announced that he considered him as on the footing of an ordinary and subordinate civil servant, but Mr Wyndham had said that he was " invited by me rather as a colleague than as a mere undersecretary to register my will," and Lord Lansdowne that he " could scarcely expect to be bound by the narrow rules of routine which are applicable to an ordinary member of the civil service."

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  • He received considerable assistance and encouragement in Japan, where he founded a society known as the Tung Men-hui, which played a prominent part in Chinese politics after the establishment of the Republic. Although an exile, he was generally regarded by the " Western-learning " section of Young China as its leader, especially after the Chinese Government's attempt to kidnap him in London, in 1896.

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  • Manufactures have been developed to a limited extent only, though protective tariff laws have been adopted for their encouragement.

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  • After controverting the doctrine of the Millenaries, he urged various practical suggestions for the repression with a strong hand of current blasphemies, for a thorough revision of the authorized version of the Scriptures, for the encouragement of a learned ministry, and for a speedy settlement of the church.

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  • Encouragement of industry was not wanting; the state undertook to develop the herds of merino sheep, by issuing prohibitions against inclosures, which proved the ruin of agriculture, and gave premiums for large merchant ships, which ruined the owners of small vessels and reduced the merchant navy of Spain to a handful of galleons.

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  • Spain found herself tied hand and foot to the French republic. Godoy had to satisfy his allies by the encouragement of reforms which both he and his mistress loathed, and in 1796 the veil was removed by the conclusion of the treaty of San Ildefonso.

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  • But as colonial secretary, except in so far as his consistent support of Lord Milner and his enthusiastic encouragement of colonial assistance were concerned, he naturally played only a subordinate part during the carrying out of the military operations.

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  • Though encouragement was given to the idea that he might return to the House of Commons, where he continued to retain his seat for Birmingham, he was quite incapacitated for any public work; and this invalid condition was protracted throughout 1907, 1908 and 1909.

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  • But the movement met with no encouragement, either amongst the prosperous peasants on the rich plain of Mush or in the mountain villages of Sasun.

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  • It was characteristic of the man that, as soon as he thought his fortune sufficient, he gave up his post of farmergeneral, and retired to an estate in the country, where he employed his large means in the relief of the poor, the encouragement of agriculture and the development of industries.

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  • The progress of physical discovery during the last half of the 19th century was perhaps as much due to the kindly encouragement which he gave to his students and to others who came in contact with him as to his own researches and inventions; and it would be difficult to speak of his influence as a teacher in stronger terms than this.

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  • The idea of a horse ranch had slipped into a dream again, in spite of all the support and encouragement she received from Alex and Jonathan.

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  • It was impossible to determine if his lips were responding, but the duration of the kiss indicated Dulce might be getting some kind of encouragement.

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  • If Alex was uncertain, his words... particularly one word... apparently gave his father encouragement.

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  • If you folks are committed to playing in this sand box, I'll do what I can to scrape out the cat poop but don't expect encouragement from me.

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  • She was self-conscious about her small stature and any attempt to assist usually became an encouragement to push herself beyond her limits.

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  • He smiled in encouragement and led her off the elevator and through a series of cheerfully lit hallways with pictures on the walls and wood floors.

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  • Giovanni took Rhyn's silence as encouragement and began to discuss his pedigree and which immortals he knew.

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  • She came as soon as he called, offered encouragement when he seemed lost, and pretended to believe his shitty excuses as to why he wasn't taking her with him this time.

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  • While maintaining a strict, no nonsense demeanor, Frost uses encouragement and positivity as her core techniques.

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  • Full of comfort, unconditional acceptance and wisdom to give you the encouragement and guidance you need, from the angels.

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  • Firstly, I had encouragement from a number of senior staff who provided administrative, clinical and research support and enthusiasm.

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  • In this collection, loving reflections provide wisdom and encouragement to help overcome anxiety, gain self-esteem, and improve relationships.

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  • They are given encouragement and training and the opportunity to prepare for and pass the APC.

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  • We appreciate your constant encouragement and your steadfast upholding of the value of celibate chastity as normative for the ordained priesthood.

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  • Dean also gave her encouragement by giving her a pound coin every time she lost a pound.

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  • We gave him ' encouragement ' from the slip cordon.

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  • When does encouragement become pressure and so become counterproductive?

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  • Thanks to everyone who worked on it, made tea or shouted encouragement.

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  • And we deserve encouragement, just as non-disabled athletes do.

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  • I have not been given any encouragement whatsoever, rather the reverse.

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  • He didn't need much encouragement to do silly things.

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  • Often academic success received little encouragement from parents or peers.

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  • In spite of her complaining, I continue to try to offer encouragement.

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  • It is clear that Munby J did not regard himself as needing to enter into a Thomas v Thomas exercise of judicious encouragement.

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  • Over the past few years this anxious opposition has made several attempts to get rid of Chávez, with the tacit encouragement of Washington.

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  • It just gives gentle encouragement to put his head down and round the back.

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  • It was our prayer that the weekend would be of mutual encouragement and I believe that intercession was answered positively.

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  • Without the society's constant encouragement we might well have given up.

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  • Mothers tended to decrease their verbal encouragement with their one-year-old boys at a critical developmental stage of receptive language skills.

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  • The year 2006 proves no exception and we extend our sincere thanks to the company for their continuing support and encouragement.

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  • Meanwhile, another form of agricultural feedstock for heating, biogas, seems to gain little encouragement from the Report.

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  • By the third I received a long and almost incoherent letter of remorse, encouragement, consolation, and despair.

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  • With a little encouragement from Duncan I ditched all attempts to survey and crawled forward for a quick look-see.

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  • There now seems little financial encouragement for drivers to turn to other cleaner fuels, such as compressed natural gas or bioethanol.

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  • He gives Emma just enough encouragement for her to entertain the notion of becoming his assistant for a new act.

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  • What an encouragement it is to all of God's people when we faithfully obey the Lord, wherever he has placed us.

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  • Labor will give every encouragement to those working for the cause of international peace.

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  • Dean also gave her encouragement by giving her a pound coin every time she lost a pound coin every time she lost a pound.

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  • Despite later encouragement from Bernard Hermann, Philip considers himself virtually self-taught in both disciplines.

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  • I personally have had only tremendous encouragement over the years.

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  • Norfolk was founded in 1682 in pursuance of an act of the Virginia Assembly passed in 1680 to establish towns for the encouragement of trade; it was incorporated as a borough in 1736 by a royal charter, was chartered as a city in 1845, its charter being revised in 1882 and 1884, and received a new charter in 1906 (amended in 1908), under which there are a mayor (elected for four years), a common council, a board of aldermen and a board of control of three members, which has charge of public works, streets, sewers, drains and water supply, the police and fire departments, the work of the board of health, &c. Norfolk is administratively independent of Norfolk county.

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  • He dealt with the immodesty of the contemporary stage, supporting his contentions by a long series of references attesting the comparative decency of Latin and Greek drama; with the profane language indulged in by the players; the abuse of the clergy common in the drama; the encouragement of vice by representing the vicious characters as admirable and successful; and finally he supported his general position by the analysis of particular plays, Dryden's Amphitryon, Vanbrugh's Relapse and D'Urfey's Don Quixote.

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  • The levy of ship money and customs by Charles sinks into insignificance beside Cromwell's wholesale taxation by ordinances; the inquisitional methods of the major-generals and the unjust and exceptional taxation of royalists outdid the scandals of the extra-legal courts of the Stuarts; the shipment of British subjects by Cromwell as slaves to Barbados has no parallel in the Stuart administration; while the prying into morals, the encouragement of informers, the attempt to make the people religious by force, were the counterpart of the Laudian system, and Cromwell's drastic treatment of the Irish exceeded anything dreamed of by Strafford.

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  • During the cholera epidemic at Naples and Busca in 1884, and the Ischia earthquake of 1885, he, regardless of danger, brought relief and encouragement to sufferers, and rescued many lives.

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  • That the encouragement of insectivorous birds has been profitable is well established, and it is equally well-known that their destruction may lead to disastrous insect plagues.

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  • Mr. Harding's interest in agricultural problems was keen; in his first message he asked special protection for agricultural interests, and in his second he declared that something more than protection must be given the farmers, advocating warmly the encouragement of cooperative marketing plans.

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  • And in January 1902, reversing the policy which had its inception in the encyclical, Rerum novarum, of 1891, and had further been developed ten years later in a letter to the Italian bishops entitled Graves de communi, the "Sacred Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs" issued instructions concerning "Christian Democracy in Italy," directing that the popular Christian movement, which embraced in its programme a number of social reforms, such as factory laws for children, old-age pensions, a minimum wage in agricultural industries, an eight-hours' day, the revival of trade gilds, and the encouragement of Sunday rest, should divert its attention from all such things as savoured of novelty and devote its energies to the restoration of the temporal power.

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  • For cold and late situations, Thomas Andrew Knight recommended the encouragement of spurs on the young wood, as such spurs, when close to the wall, generate the best organized and most vigorous blossoms, and generally ensure a crop of fruit.

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  • A "societe industrielle" for the encouragement of original discovery and invention among the workmen has existed since 1825, and there are various benevolent societies.

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  • Sauer came to England in the summer of 1901 on a mission from the Cape Africanders, and received much encouragement from Radical politicians.

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  • The passage, then, must have a spiritual meaning, and its purpose is the encouragement of the faithful by the assurance of their deliverance not necessarily from physical death but from the dominion of the evil one.

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  • Besides mentioning the encouragement bestowed by leading Germans like Goethe, Herder, Raumer, etc., on Czech poets and scholars, the book gives an appreciative account of the Emperor Joseph.

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  • In spite, however, of the marked improvement in the conditions and behaviour of the Welsh people, owing to this strictly orthodox revival within the pale of the Church, Griffith Jones and his system of education were regarded with indifference by the English prelates in Wales, who offered no preferment and gave little encouragement to the founder of the circulating schools.

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  • He fostered wealth by the steady encouragement of industry and by drastic legislation against idleness, luxury and vice; and the highest prosperity of the Corinthian handicrafts may be assigned to the period of his rule (see Corinth).

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  • Several hundred books, including many fine ones, were sent to me in a short time, as well as money and encouragement.

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  • He realized from the first that he would not get up again, despite the doctor's encouragement.

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  • I was also in a few internet quilting groups, and the support and encouragement was wonderful.

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  • It 's an easy and timesaving way of talking with people who may have encountered similar issues and can offer advice and encouragement.

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  • Also encouragement to install triple glazing using sustainable wood frames instead of UPVC encourage energy suppliers to invest in renewable fuels.

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  • The, placing down his now empty horn, he yelled encouragement for the mighty wrestling champion Ivar.

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  • With your encouragement, your little one will develop healthy eating habits in no time!

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  • A preemie growth chart is one way that parents can bring encouragement into the family, celebrating the physical development and personal victories of their special baby.

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  • Use lots of praise and encouragement as positive reinforcement when your child uses the potty or shows you signs that she might be ready.

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  • Your encouragement will play a big role in her potty training success.

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  • Cats respond best to positive encouragement.

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  • The right combination of encouragement and atmosphere can make this photo shoot successful.

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  • Individuals new to nude modeling may need extra encouragement and assurance throughout the shoot in order to get the sexiest poses from them.

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  • Creative Memories consultants offer scrapping expertise, encouragement and access to some of the highest quality photo albums, scrapbook albums and photo books on the market.

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  • If the card contains a special message of encouragement or congratulations, make sure you can open the greeting to read inside.

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  • Everyone needs a little inspiration from time to time, and a scrapbook is a good way to offer encouragement.

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  • Words of encouragement can be as good of a gift as a microwave or mini-fridge.

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  • Even after all the ceremonies and parties are over, you can still send your graduate words of encouragement through e-mails, phone calls, or even by sending a care-package that includes a letter with your chosen poem in it.

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  • You may also want to ask other parents and your church about local Christian youth camps, which can give your child encouragement to turn his behavior around.

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  • Teenage senior quotes can be used for graduation ceremonies, cards, or just as words of encouragement to a high school senior.

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  • I shared all the bad and immoral acts in my life and with his encouragement shared some of the good points that existed.

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  • He/she can provide encouragement and help you discover strategies to reach your goal.

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  • Join cessation programs in your community, receive individual counseling and/or ask for encouragement from friends and family.

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  • If your little one loves the furry, red, Sesame Street character and also needs a little encouragement to get to bed every night, a set of Elmo bed sheets just might do the trick!

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  • I believe I have done a good job in each of those areas and many of the best drivers in the world have offered me their support and encouragement."

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  • Other celebs include Ben Affleck, Jack Black, Russell Simmons and Oprah Winfrey, among others, but there really is no telling whether or not encouragement from celebrities actually gets young adults out and voting.

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  • However, if you are looking for enrichment, encouragement, and excitement, a marriage encounter cruise is a wonderful vacation option.

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  • When she does, give her some calm praise and encouragement, and continue on.

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  • If you need encouragement, feel free to visit EcoLips.com and look at the Customer Reviews section.

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  • In addition to what you've outlined in the book, what other words of encouragement do you have for women interested in traveling?

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  • There are also often seniors who are dealing with depression or health issues and who will need a nudge of encouragement to participate.

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  • Great Cabs should be enough encouragement.

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  • Support and encouragement from family members is important.

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  • Self-help groups are often useful in helping anorexics find social support and encouragement.

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  • If given proper encouragement and the opportunity to practice a coherent inner sense of morality, however, most people will develop a balanced morality to guide their day-to-day interactions with their world.

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  • They will either already have enough skill and encouragement to continue a desire to create art, or they will not.

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  • Children who make these drawings may just need encouragement.

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  • Since artistic expression and appreciation is an element of a balanced life, encouragement by parents and other adults is essential.

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  • The general consensus from experts is that much encouragement and praise should be used when a child cooperates with toilet training and when he or she begins to urinate or defecate in the potty.

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  • Parents should let their child calm down and then offer to help them and give encouragement.

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  • Encouragement and emotional support may convince the sick person to get help, stay with treatment, or try again after a failure.

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  • Those who are mourning the loss of a loved one are often emotionally fragile and need encouragement.

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  • You do not have to be religious, however, to find encouragement in the Bible.

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  • Though this type of support group does engender sympathy and encouragement, the downside is that a gathering of this sort can also engender depression as sufferers flounder in their losses.

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  • Despite encouragement from Banks, some women are still wary about wearing their hair au natural.

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  • With that said, if you take the time to jot down successes it can be a real boost of encouragement at the end of the year to see how far you have come.

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  • Koinonia - offers support for homeschooling moms with prayer groups, encouragement, discussions, field trips and annual events.

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  • The group has an annual membership, which provides an email list for encouragement among members, regular parent meetings and educational field trips.

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  • If I'm going to be a single mom, can they provide the love and encouragement I need?

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  • Instead of providing happy encouragement to a child who is, say, learning to play a sport or ride a bike, these words could actually have the reverse effect.

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  • Consider bringing along a friend for shopping assistance and encouragement.

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  • In 1988, with FDA encouragement, drug companies stopped producing high progesterone dose pills.

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  • People who can offer love, reassurance, and encouragement will make the birth experience a positive one.

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  • Kids don't usually need encouragement to run and play with abandon, but knowing that they are wearing a swimsuit that allows them to do whatever they want without fear of anything coming undone allows them that much more pleasure.

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  • It provides hope and encouragement to those suffering from this devastating disease, while also raising funds for the essential research that must continue on toward finding a cure.

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  • Often they will help your group to come up with ideas for a fundraising opportunity and will help to provide the resources and encouragement to get something worthwhile accomplished.

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  • Look for encouragement from the small steps your son takes toward building friendships and try to relax with the assurance that we are all individuals with unique needs.

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  • Your friends and family are the best source of encouragement and confidence boosting and can provide you with additional conversation material on your date.

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  • Additionally, smiling at another person can give the individual the encouragement he or she needs to approach you.

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  • They look to people to provide them with something, whether it is support, encouragement or someone to talk to about things.

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  • At LoveToKnow Freelance Writing, our goal is to give you the advice and encouragement you need to make this dream a reality.

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  • If you have ever fantasized about living this dream, you might just need a little encouragement to realize how possible it could be.

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  • Libra is the arts sign, and Gemini thoroughly enjoys expanding her creative side under the encouragement of her Libra lover.

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  • It's a well known fact that most people respond to positive encouragement.

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  • With encouragement, and a few supplies, kids can use imagination to create art.

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  • But, in the end, it's only because of my loyal readership - their support and encouragement - that the site continues.

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  • Instructor Laura Hudson provides a concise explanation of the various poses and offers enough encouragement to keep even the most fickle of viewers motivated.

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  • Without proper encouragement and diverse activities accentuating various abilities, it's easy for young women to doubt themselves.

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  • To beat the feeling of isolation, many work at home moms turn to a WAHM forum as a virtual outlet for brainstorming, mentoring, and encouragement.

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  • Another way to promote school spirit through encouragement is to encourage students to "send hugs and kisses".

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  • Try to get the crowd chanting this simple cheer along with you to really give the chant some teeth so that the football players can hear the encouragement while they are on the field.

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  • It's the words of encouragement, shouted with a smile during the stunts and routines, that bring the crowd to their feet to support their team.

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  • They've gone from simple encouragement from the dugout to battles royale for the attention and support of the fans.

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  • As my mom said, I think those mothers who do have cheer experience should be there for support and encouragement, not coaching.

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  • Being part of a monthly cross stitching group, sometimes referred to as a cross stitching bee, is also a wonderful way to share the accomplishments of a finished project or to find needed encouragement to finish a project.

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  • Simply modeling healthy choices for the child, by eating healthful foods yourself, and by engaging in physical activity on a regular basis, can be a tremendous encouragement to a child with a weight problem.

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  • A free online support group is also available for both novice and experienced dieters to join together for additional encouragement.

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  • Often local clubs and diet groups can be found, where dieters can meet and exchange feedback and generally provide encouragement.

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  • Each week, a client meets with a Jenny Craig Consultant to receive support, motivation, encouragement and helpful advice.

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  • Some people love to take group classes, where the encouragement of instructors and fellow classmates helps them last to the end of the session.

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  • It might take some getting used to at first, but with positive encouragement from your partner, you may find that you love these new and exciting undies - you might not ever go back to tighty whiteys!

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  • As someone who had struggled with weight issues in the past, Sweeney is able to relate to the contestants and provides a great deal of encouragement and positive energy to the show.

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  • The community center provides care, supervision and encouragement to young people who do not have that kind of support at home.

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  • Rob didn't need encouragement.

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  • Alex needed no more encouragement.

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  • Gerry smiled in encouragement.

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  • Having sounded Lord Granville, Mancini received encouragement to seize Beilul and Massawa, in view of the projected restriction of the Egyptian zone of military occupation consequent on the Mahdist rising in the Sudan.

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  • Recourse to the secular prince by way of appel comme d'abus, or otherwise, became more frequent and met with greater encouragement.

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  • He gave special encouragement to the creation of national kitchens, the number of which had grown by the end of Aug.

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  • From near neighbours and from distant colonies came provisions and encouragement.

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  • The Franciscans gave him no encouragement to remain; and the provincial threatened him with excommunication if he persisted.

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  • Although for a long time lecturers and professors had been attached to universities, generally their duties had also included the study of physics, mineralogy and other subjects, with the result that chemistry received scanty encouragement.

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  • After that time the duties on imports were repeatedly and largely increased, both as a means of raising larger revenues and as an encouragement to manufacturing enterprise.

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  • The In- stituto Historico e Geographico Brazileiro, though devoted chiefly to historical research, has rendered noteworthy service in its encouragement of geographical exploration and by its publication of various scientific memoirs.

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  • That the encouragement of the Slav aspirations was soon deliberately adopted as a weapon against the Hungarian government was due, partly to the speedy predominance at Pest of Kossuth and the extreme party of which he was the mouthpiece, but mainly to the calculated policy of Baron Jellachich, who on the 14th of April was appointed ban of Croatia.

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  • The encouragement of polite literature was more especially the object of the Kisfaludy Society, founded in 1836.4 Polite literature had received a great impulse in the preceding period (1807-1830), but after the formation of the academy and the Kisfaludy society it advanced with accelerated speed towards the point attained by other nations.

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  • After 1867 great activity was displayed in history and its allied branches, owing to the direct encouragement given by the Hungarian Historical Society, and by the historical, archaeological, and statistical committees of the academy.

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  • For the special supervision and encouragement of indigenous primary education in monastic and in lay schools, each circle of inspection is divided into sub-circles corresponding with one or more of the civil districts, and each sub-circle is placed under a deputyinspector or a sub-inspector of schools.

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  • The active encouragement of King Edward VIL., at whose instance in 1902 he was invited officially to be present at the coronation ceremony, marked the completeness of the change; and when, in 1905, the "general" went on a progress through England, he was received in state by the mayors and corporations of many towns.

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  • Hence it still seems best to assume some unknown Aramaic form equivalent to 7rapaicX y as, and then to take the latter in the sense of comfort or encouragement.

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  • He had the support of Sir James Outram and Sir Henry Lawrence, and the encouragement of seeing a new band of converts, including several young men of high caste.

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  • He ruled with a stern sway for nearly half a century, but the brilliance of his court, his encouragement of the fine arts and his decoration of the city with sumptuous edifices, to some extent compensated the Bolognese for the loss of their liberty.

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  • This gave the new king much popularity with the mass of the people; while the educated classes were pleased by his removal of Frederick's ban on the German language by the admission of German writers to the Prussian Academy, and by the active encouragement given to schools and universities.

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  • The invaders met with little encouragement from the populace, who were not well disposed towards a monarch whom it was sought to impose upon them by the aid of Irish and German mercenaries.

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  • Its success contains at once a warning to those doubters who are always crying out that we have reached the limitations of knowledge, and an encouragement and stimulus to would-be explorers of new intellectual realms.

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  • Gregory did all in his power to promote the spread of Christianity in Germany, and gave special encouragement to the mission of St Boniface, whom he consecrated bishop in 722.

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  • In Italy he formed a friendship with Lorgna, professor of mathematics at Verona, and one of the founders of the Societe' Italiana for the encouragement of the sciences.

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  • His endeavours to satisfy his countrymen in this respect did not always meet with encouragement, and sometimes exposed him to slander.

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  • Special encouragement was given to merchants to import articles of food.

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  • Its economic influence was multiform and incalculable, owing to its vast property, its system of taxation and its encouragement of monasticism.

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  • In 1599, under the encouragement of Henry IV., speculators began to frequent the St Lawrence in pursuit of the fur trade.

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  • In January 1784 Governor George Clinton recommended legislation for the " revival and encouragement of seminaries of learning," with the result that the legislature passed an act establishing a state university of which Columbia College, formerly King's, was the " mother " portion.

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  • The charter did not give the encouragement to agriculture that was expected of it because the status created for colonists of a patroon was no attraction to a successful farmer in the Netherlands.

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  • With the encouragement of a discriminating patron, a small but excellent orchestra and a free hand, Haydn made the most of his opportunity and produced a continuous stream of compositions in every known musical form.

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  • He accorded at first only a few trifling reforms, which were far from removing the popular discontent, while he retained the unpopular minister, Count Detlew von Einsiedel (1773-1861), and continued the encouragement of the Roman Catholics.

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  • Ban Jellacic, though loyal to the Emperor, had given expression to their aspirations towards unity as early as 1848; but Francis Joseph handed over the Croats and Serbs to Magyar domination (1867), and Dalmatia, the territory of the Austrian Croats, had been neglected by Vienna for years past; thus it was not till the years immediately preceding the war that it was rapidly developed by the construction of ports and railways and the encouragement of tourist traffic. The Slovenes, who inhabited Carinthia and Carniola, had less grounds for discontent, for the barren Karst had been afforested at the expense of the state; but though they were at the very gate of Serbia, they suffered from a shortage of meat, for Hungary obstructed the traffic in livestock in the interests of her great territorial magnates, and Austria bore the brunt of this.

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  • He founded two gold medals for the encouragement of scientific research, one in the award of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the other in that of the Scottish Society of Arts.

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  • Her letter to the emperor, pervaded with he religious and almost mystic sentiments which predominate in the queen's mind, particularly since the death of Prince Albert, seems to have made a deep impression on the sovereign who, amid the struggles of politics, had never completely repudiated the philanthropic theories of his youth, and who, on the battlefield of Solferino, covered with the dead and wounded, was seized with an unspeakable horror of war."Moreover, Disraeli's two premierships (1868, 1874-80) did a good deal to give new encouragement to a right idea of the constitutional function of the crown.

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  • Numerous enactments have also been passed for the encouragement of building operations.

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  • In the Cambridge University Reporter for November 9, 1870, it was stated that, " in order to provide adequate encouragement for the study of Modern Languages and Natural Science," the commissioners for endowed schools had "Coin= determined on the establishment of modern schools of the first grade in which Greek would be excluded.

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  • Among such may be mentioned the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge among the Poor (1750); and the Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools (1785).

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  • Stock-raising dates from the earliest Spanish settlements in Mexico and received no slight encouragement from the mother country.

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  • Undoubtedly he facilitated her self-incrimination, but of her active encouragement of the plot there can be little doubt after the publication of her letters to Mendoza, in which she excuses her complicity on the plea that no other means were left to secure her liberation.

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  • He may have negotiated with Alexius about a principality at Antioch; if he did so, he had little encouragement.

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  • The emperor, however, being at war with Boleslaus of Poland, opposed his enterprise, and he went first to the court of St Stephen of Hungary, and, finding but slight encouragement there, to that of the grand prince Vladimir at Kiev.

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  • Encouragement to seedgrowing is given by the holding of seed fairs, and bulletins are issued on weeds, the methods of treating seed-wheat against smut and on other subjects.

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  • Bounties were last offered by the state of California in 1865-1866, but the state law was soon repealed, and an attempt to obtain state encouragement again in 1872 was defeated.

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  • Nobel (1833-1896), the inventor of dynamite, who left a considerable fortune for the encouragement of men who work for the benefit of humanity.

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  • Nicholas, again, lent the protection and encouragement of his powerful arm to science as well as art, till the papal court became a veritable domain of the Muses.

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  • He was especially active in the erection and encouragement of educational institutions.

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  • When repotting is adopted as a temporary expedient, as in the case of bedding-out plants which it is required to push forward as much as possible, it will suffice if provision is made to prevent the drainage hole from getting blocked, and a rich light compost is provided for the encouragement of the roots.

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  • The mineral resources of Holland give no encouragement to industrial activity, with the exception of the coal-mining in Limburg, the smelting of iron ore in a few furnaces in Overysel and Gelderland, the use of stone and gravel in the making of dikes and roads, and of clay in brickworks and potteries, the quarrying of stone at St Pietersberg, &c. Nevertheless the industry of the country has developed in a remarkable manner since the separation from Belgium.

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  • Among societies of general utility are the Society for Public Welfare (Maatschappij tot nut van't algemeen, 1785), whose efforts have been mainly in the direction of educational reform; the Geographical Society at Amsterdam (1873); Teyler's Stichting or foundation at Haarlem (1778), and the societies for the promotion of industry (1777), and of sciences (1752) in the same town; the Institute of Languages, Geography and Ethnology of the Dutch Indies (1851), and the Indian Society at the Hague, the Royal Institute of Engineers at Delft (1848), the Association for the Encouragement of Music at Amsterdam, &c.

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  • The result has been that there is in Germany no such concentration of the institutions for the encouragement and study of the fine arts as there is in France or England.

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  • On the I4th of June Klber was assassinated by a fanatic named Suleiman of Aleppo, said to have been incited to the deed by a Janissary refugee at Jerusalem, who had brought letters to the sheiks of the Azhar, who, however, refused to give him any encouragement.

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  • At the head of the scientific societies stands the academy of sciences, founded in 1825, for the encouragement of the study of the Hungarian language and the various sciences except theology.

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  • Budapest has profited largely by the encouragement of agriculture, trade and industry, by the nationalization of the railways, by the development of inland navigation, and also by the neglect of similar measures in favour of Vienna.

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  • It was Schiller, too, who induced him to undertake those studies on the nature of epic and dramatic poetry which resulted in the epic of Hermann and Dorothea and the fragment of the Achilleis; without the friendship there would have been no Xenien and no ballads, and it was his younger friend's encouragement which induced Goethe to betake himself once more to the "misty path" of Faust, and bring the first part of that drama to a conclusion.

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  • The limit of taxation and restriction is the point at which too great encouragement is given to smuggling.

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  • In, 90 he was expelled with the other philosophers by Domitian, who was irritated by the support and encouragement which the opposition to his tyranny found amongst the adherents of Stoicism.

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  • A new stimulus was given to agriculture by the encouragement which King Alexander personally extended to the establishment of rural co-operative associations on the Raiffeisen principles.

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  • His mother's encouragement was instrumental in his interest in the countryside, especially its traditions, folklore and antiquities.

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  • Your husband draws comfort, encouragement and support from his girlfriend, which reinforces and refuels his anger against you.

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  • For encouragement and motivation to be sure, but more importantly, success leaves clues.

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  • We hope that other small farmers will join us there to share information and encouragement.

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  • With a little encouragement, more might even be forthcoming.

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  • Carmen had given Josh no encouragement.

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  • Maybe he felt excluded - or maybe he simply needed a little encouragement.

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  • But she had hesitated long enough to lend him encouragement.

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  • The wild-eyed cow needed no further encouragement.

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  • The men of Lombardy, emboldened by his tacit encouragement, prepared at the close of the year to form a republic, which assumed the name of Transpadane, and thereafter that of Cisalpine.

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  • The various Monthly Meetings appoint Elders, or some body of Friends, to give advice of encouragement or restraint as may be needed, and, generally, to take the ministry under their care.

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  • The longer Christina ruled, the more anxious for the future fate of her empire grew the men who had helped to build it up. Yet she gave fresh privileges to the towns; she encouraged trade and manufactures, especially the mining industries of the Dales; in 1649 she issued the first school ordinance for the whole kingdom; she encouraged foreign scholars to settle in Sweden; and native science and literature, under her liberal encouragement, flourished as they had never flourished before.

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  • In 1755 he was appointed a member of the board of trustees for encouragement of the fisheries, arts and manufactures of Scotland, and about the same time he was named one of the commissioners for the management of the forfeited estates annexed to the Crown.

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  • About 1790 he seems to have thought of taking up law or medicine, but his projects met with no encouragement from his relatives and he remained at Kendal till, in the spring of 1793, he moved to Manchester, where he spent the rest of his life.

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  • Her correspondence in cipher from thence with her English agents abroad, intercepted by Walsingham and deciphered by his secretary, gave eager encouragement to the design for a Spanish invasion of England Under the prince of Parma, - an enterprise in which she would do her utmost to make her son take part, and in case of his refusal would induce the Catholic nobles of Scotland to betray him into the hands of Philip, from whose tutelage he should be released only on her demand, or if after her death he should wish to return, nor then unless he had become a Catholic. But even these patriotic and maternal schemes to consign her child and re-consign the kingdom to the keeping of the Inquisition, incarnate in the widower of Mary Tudor, were superseded by the attraction of a conspiracy against the throne and life of Elizabeth.

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  • The little girl, hair streaming, offered encouragement while skating backwards, one leg lifted high and beckoning unsuccessfully for Dean to follow.

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  • The king's encouragement seemed at first to point to a successful revival of flagellation; but the practice disappeared along with the other forms of devotion that had sprung up at the time of the league, and Henry III.'s successor suppressed the Paris brotherhood.

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  • Stamboloff, pursued systematically an anti-Russian policy, but the cabinet of St Petersburg confined itself officially to breaking off diplomatic relations and making diplomatic protests, and unofficially to giving tacit encouragement to revolutionary agitation.

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  • Public sittings are apt to be means of obtaining money by false pretences, and the great scandal of spiritualism is undoubtedly the encouragement it gives to the immoral trade of fraudulent mediumship.

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  • But the army was ill-equipped and unprepared; and Potemkin in an hysterical fit of depression gave everything up for lost, and would have resigned but for the steady encouragement of the empress.

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  • Owing to the numbers and activity of its institutions, both native and foreign, for the prosecution of research and the encouragement of classical studies, Athens has become Scientific once more an international seat of learning.

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  • Ney, who had joined Oudinot after Grossbeeren, had been defeated at Dennewitz (6th Sept.), the victory, won by Prussian troops solely, giving the greatest encouragement to the enemy.

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  • On the high plateau all attempts to grow cereals have failed, the wide trenches alone (Uda, Selenga, Jida) offering encouragement to the agriculturist.

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  • He was left feeling dirty, like he was leading her on with enough encouragement to keep her from taking matters into her own hands but not so much that her tumor grew.

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  • Piles of gear were stacked about while partners called out to those below, fed line and encouragement, while others watched, a number with anxious looks on their reddened faces as they looked downward.

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  • Raucous Stellar Jays squawked their encouragement while buzzards circling over­head seemed to keep out a careful eye for fallen bikers.

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  • He looked at her expectantly, as if awaiting encouragement from his leader that all would end well.

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  • The jewellers art received large encouragement in a country which had so many independent courts; but nowhere has it attained a fuller development than at Rome.

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  • It is said that he gave a great impetus to the dramatic representations which belonged to the Dionysiac cult, and that it was under his encouragement that Thespis of Icaria, by impersonating character, laid the foundation of the great Greek drama of the 5th and 4th centuries.

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  • On the 24th of July 1663 he alone signed a protest against the bill " for the encouragement of trade," on the plea that owing to the free export of coin and bullion allowed by the act, and to the importation of foreign commodities being greater than the export of home goods, " it must necessarily follow.

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  • Yet during the armistice which ensued (June 4th - July loth; afterwards prolonged to August loth) Napoleon did nothing to soothe the Viennese government, and that, too, despite the encouragement which the allies received from the news of Wellington's victory at Vittoria and the entry of Bernadotte with a Swedish contingent on the scene.

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  • The same draughtsman (who had in 1 775 produced a History of British Birds) in 1822 began another series of Figures of rare and curious Birds.8 The practice of Brisson, Buffon, Latham and others of neglecting to name after the Linnaean fashion the species they described gave great encouragement to compilation, and led to what has proved to be of some inconvenience to modern ornithologists.

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  • He also found encouragement in Mucianus, the governor of Syria; and although a strict disciplinarian and reformer of abuses, he had a soldiery thoroughly devoted to him.

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  • The forest was soon filled with the sound of pursuers.  Katie needed no further encouragement.  She pulled her arm free and ran behind Gabriel as he kept to the invisible path.  A shadow caught her attention.  She glanced over and froze, tripping.

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  • The Long Parliament had ordered a strict observance of Sunday, punished swearing severely, and made adultery a capital crime; Cromwell issued further ordinances against duelling, swearing, racemeetings and cock-fights - the last as tending to the disturbance of the public peace and the encouragement of "dissolute practices to the dishonour of God."

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  • From the mines of Thrace, and perhaps from the harbour dues and from the mines of Laurium, he derived a large revenue; under his encouragement, Miltiades had planted an Athenian colony on the shores of the Thracian Chersonese; he had even made friends with Thessaly and Macedonia, as is evidenced by the hospitality extended by them to Hippias on his final expulsion.

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  • After an inconclusive campaign in Munster in January 1600, he returned in haste to Donegal, where he received supplies from Spain and a token of encouragement from Pope Clement VIII.

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  • It is obvious that both these investigators had the genius for recognizing and interpreting the value of characters; but their labours do not seem to have met with much encouragement; and a general arrangement of the class laid by Blyth before the Zoological Society at this time 1 does not appear in its publications.

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  • Since the end of the 18th century, although a great number of volumes of sermons have been and continue to be published, and although the pulpit holds its own in Protestant and Catholic countries alike, for purposes of exhortation and encouragement, it cannot be said that the sermon has in any way extended its influence as a form of pure literature.

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  • I trust that the effort of The Great Round World to bring light to those who sit in darkness will receive the encouragement and support it so richly deserves.

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  • They have never received any encouragement from me, and they never will.

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  • As if Matthew thought the encouragement was intended for him, he latched onto her breast, creating a suction that sent tiny bubbles down the feeding tube.

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  • She looked at Mansr, who nodded in encouragement, then stepped into the chamber.

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  • Ptolemy Euergetes (247-222 B.C.) rendered the greatest service to geography by the protection and encouragement of Eratosthenes, whose labours gave the first ap proximate knowledge of the true size of the spherical The .

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  • His scientific fame is based mainly on his encouragement of astronomy.

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  • The institution of the Janissaries holds a prominent place among the most remarkable events of Orkhan's reign, which was notable for the encouragement of learning and the foundation of schools, the building of roads and other works of public utility.

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  • With Sebastiani's encouragement the Porte resisted these demands; in one day a thousand guns were ranged along both sides of the Bosporus; and after a stay of ten days the British fleet was ordered to leave, and was considerably damaged by the fire of the forts while passing down.

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  • Natalie needed little encouragement - or maybe it was because Carmen was a little more relaxed and experienced.

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  • Her .own predilections led her to literature; and in her society Propertius found the intellectual sympathy and encouragement which were essential for the development of his powers.

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  • Encouragement and help have been given by the local Archaeological Society, and by many individuals, notably Greeks justly proud of a city which is one of the glories of their national story.

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  • In, taking this step the Modenese and Romagnols had the encouragement of Bonaparte, despite the orders which the French directory sent to him in a contrary sense.

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