To raise revenues, local officials encourage development, bringing sprawl that drags down the environment and quality of life.

Our officials encourage this attitude, having confused their personal stature in Brussels with the national interest.

The plaintiffs said officials had encouraged the children to lie.

Local officials encouraged the destruction, so when the carnage stopped, the cover-ups began.

Palestinian officials have encouraged Arabs over the years to stay in the city to maintain their claim.

American officials are likely to offer direct aid and also encourage international financial institutions, which have stopped lending money to Croatia, to begin doing so again.

They lacked the technical skills to participate in the industry: officials had not consistently encouraged it.

It asks officials not to encourage or assist private fund-raisers.

Instead, officials have encouraged parents, especially those seeking to leave welfare, to make ad hoc arrangements.

Funding for public libraries is being scrutinized and cut to the point where officials are encouraging some pay-for-service.