To encourage friendly feelings, close cooperation and unanimity among the members of the Association on all matters connected with their common good and objectives.

He encouraged strong feelings in the older men who were paid to imagine what kind of pro ballplayer a young man might become.

The night seemed to be brooding, even ominous, though the dark always encouraged such feelings in him.

Instead he reached out to what he calls "the gorgeous mosaic" of his city, as if striving to encourage good feelings all around.

Becoming one again with the Father encourages feelings of peace, security, safety, prosperity, and felicity among all Kingdom citizens.

We speak, after all, of 'drawing out' a person, meaning encouraging his or her true feelings and thoughts to surface.

Rather, it is to encourage feelings of self-esteem in students through success at something very difficult.

He turned toward Dina and smiled at her in a way that did nothing to encourage positive feelings.

"Don't encourage such feelings, Dinny; they affect one's character."

The authorities have refused this right for years, fearing that Kurdish-language broadcasts would encourage separatist feelings.