That attitude, he said, encouraged the company to stretch accounting rules and take ever-bigger risks in an effort to keep its stock rising.

The permissive attitudes there all but encouraged affairs between students and teachers, she said.

His very attitude encouraged Luff to further statements.

Such an attitude cannot but encourage anti-immigrant bias.

Except in very specific cases Sidonius's attitudes and style encourage the reader to see continuity where there may have been disruption.

These may be weak reeds to lean upon in hope that war can yet be avoided; and Washington's official attitude does not encourage optimism.

This attitude encourages people to continue searching for a cure, even when there is nothing medically wrong to be cured.

This attitude, and their deployment with cavalry units, encouraged their treatment as light tanks.

The sergeant's mild attitude encouraged Hal to question him further.

Bush-Baker's attitude encouraged Germany to withhold an additional $5 billion once held out.