Agricultural advisors often inadvertently encourage pests by advising farmers to cultivate more intensively.

That strategy, however, feeds the fantasies of romance of the would-be lover, and so inadvertently encourages pursuit.

By reserving such an option, the United States might inadvertently encourage developing nations to build or buy nuclear arms, he said.

Parents may also inadvertently encourage their toddlers to whine.

Federal cost-control policies inadvertently encouraged such investments.

The Mongols were able to create safe trade and stability between the two regions, but inadvertently encouraged the spread of the Black Plague.

And, of course, I inadvertently encouraged her by talking you up, how you saved so many lives.

In that same vein, it is to try to discourage news coverage of pranks that may inadvertently encourage others.

Media silence discourages others from raising their voices in public and inadvertently encourages the Gingrich revolution.

Third, Federal policy inadvertently encourages corporations to shift capital into defense production at the expense of civilian industries.