It has a standing policy of encouraging comments from all parts of the political spectrum.

If she expected any encouraging comment from him, she did not get it.

I could hear two women in the adjoining stall, one barfing up her dinner while the other offered encouraging comments.

Adara, silent up till now, added her encouraging comment.

The encouraging comment, sincerely meant, however brief, is the English teacher's most powerful weapon.

I was also overwhelmed by the tremendously encouraging comments made by my trial team.

The most popular visitors to old people are the good listeners, who concentrate with interest on what they are saying, making the occasional encouraging comment.

In general he kept up a running stream of encouraging comments, directed at the animal and at his family indiscriminately.

Thank you, Commissioner, for your encouraging and highly technical comments.

Occasionally the Notebooks feature encouraging comments by James to himself.