Instead, they have often tried to help struggling fishermen with subsidies, which merely encourage more overfishing.

We didn't have to work this up; we merely encouraged it.

Songs about romance don't tell you how to make out, they merely encourage it.

I merely encouraged them to end their lives in a certain manner at a certain time.

By sitting on their hands now, critics merely encourage the court's conservative majority.

Our emphasis on conservation is a clear difference between this plan and others which merely encouraged crash production efforts.

The engineers could have made them flat but that would merely encourage cycling!

McCabe did not receive special coaching attention from the school's staff, who merely encouraged him to hit the ball hard and along the ground.

Protection will merely encourage fragmentation of the European market and a reduction in our overall competitiveness.

His background had merely never encouraged him to develop one.