Businesses were encouraged with government subsidies and loans.

We were also encouraged by the recent agreement on the Rafah border crossing between the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority.

So we are very encouraged by these results.

Women were being encouraged to take entrance exams for government positions and exams were currently being used to provide objective criteria for promotion for government employees women were encouraged to take such exams.

We were encouraged by the way the Israeli Government showed great courage in implementing the withdrawal from Gaza and the northern West Bank this summer.

Commercial banks and other financial institutions were encouraged to contribute to the fund.

Development aid agencies were encouraged to support the alternative development programmes of UNODC.

We are encouraged by the positive international reaction to that proposal.

As this unique summit ends, we are encouraged by its outcome.

Moreover, we are encouraged by a number of initiatives on innovative sources of financing for development that were raised at the separate meeting on financing for development.

With incomes stagnant, households were encouraged to borrow, especially against home equity, to maintain consumption.

Similarly, transparency would be encouraged if only payments that are fully documented were tax deductible.

We were and are encouraged by the support received, although it was not enough to bridge the still too divergent positions and priorities of the entire United Nations membership.

I was impressed and encouraged that roughly four fifths of the 85 children were fully vaccinated.

Young people were encouraged to examine priorities of greatest concern in their national or local contexts.

In the occupied Syrian Golan, half of the Israeli settlements were scheduled for expansion, and new settlers were being encouraged to move in.

Local governments were encouraged to increase their spending on public infrastructure projects in order to maintain growth.

Girls were encouraged to secure an education and pursue a career in the factory or the office.

Lastly, she wondered whether men as well as women were encouraged to take responsibility for family planning.

In the interim, aggrieved parties were being encouraged to seek redress directly through the courts where possible.

Girls were being encouraged to pursue technical and vocational training and to enter other traditionally male fields.

Girls were encouraged to attend school through awareness raising campaigns which involved the participation of many NGOs.

In the Middle East, we are encouraged by the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

Children were encouraged to study math and science, and American know how helped the US meet the challenge.

In the early history of the park, visitors were allowed, and sometimes even encouraged, to feed the bears.

People were also encouraged to support the campaign by adding a web button to their website or blog.

We feel encouraged and modestly certain that, this time, action and results are on the way.

Enhancement and support of regional and subregional peacekeeping operations were crucial, and regional organizations should be encouraged and supported.

Of course, we couldn't have a classroom discussion with tens of thousands of students, so we encouraged and nurtured these online forums.

Nobody encouraged her.

Governments were also encouraged to promote public public and public private partnerships for financing and developing infrastructure and affordable housing.

The mass media were being encouraged to combat existing stereotypes under the project entitled Mass Media (re) Distribution of Power .

In that regard, we are encouraged by the political courage shown by the leaders of the two sides.

Parties were also encouraged to ensure good linkages between the WSSD follow up, in particular the CSD process, and the UNCCD.

A child to child awareness raising programme was developed for use with schoolchildren, and educational authorities were encouraged to implement it.

Following an investigation, they were charged with engaging in acts which, inter alia, justified terrorism, encouraged violence and incited civil disturbance.

No one encouraged her.

Second, legislation encouraged it.

I'm encouraged by that.

We are encouraged by efforts to meet the goal of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for ODA.

States were encouraged to enact national legislation, as necessary, that would enable the Convention and the draft optional protocol to be implemented.

Both governing and opposition parties were encouraged to take initiatives on behalf of the Pygmies, women, people with disabilities and street children.

That trend should be encouraged.

We would be still more encouraged if our Organization were to become more effective through the indispensable reforms that are expected from our High level Meeting and reflected in a new world order  a world we hope to see that will be more equal and more democratic.

Poverty, armed conflicts and international tensions were among the factors that encouraged the spread of terrorism and swelled the ranks of terrorist organizations.