Our role has been to encourage them towards peace.

These developments were intended to encourage further investment towards the east of Shizuoka city centre.

This culture of appreciation, which builds up our community, encourages us towards excellence and professionalism.

They recognized and encouraged Gulshan's inclination towards these artistic activities at a very early stage.

This position always encourages a conscious lean towards an intellectual understanding or a religious orientation.

Close economic and cultural links across the long border also encouraged Canadian sympathy towards the Union.

The man tightened his hold and encouraged her to shuffle back towards the bed.

The state encouraged the migration from rural areas towards cities, partly as an attempt to weaken the Church's influence.

At programme planning level, we want to tighten up the preventive measures in future and encourage a change of course towards sustainable development.

But we do need to encourage the present trend towards the steady growth of organic farming.