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• v  contribute to the progress or growth of
• v  inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to
• v  spur on
• a  giving courage or confidence or hope
  encouraging advances in medical research
• s  furnishing support and encouragement

• So far, the results for SPOT have been encouraging.
• In a rare three-and-one-half hour meeting with foreign scholars and journalists, including PTI, Putin Monday claimed that "some circles" in the West were encouraging separatist .
• This result is tantalizingly encouraging.

• promote
• advance
• boost
• further
• encourage
• supporting

• discourage
• discouraging

News & Articles

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• Encouraging Data on Alexion's Soliris
  Alexion announced that encouraging data on Soliris has been published for treating aHUS patients.
  June 10, 2013 - Zacks via Yahoo! Finance
• Encouraging Data on Novartis Candidate
  Novartis (NVS) recently released encouraging data on its pipeline candidate, LDK378, from a phase I study.
  June 10, 2013 - Zacks via Yahoo! Finance
• Encouraging Data on Novartis Candidate - Analyst Blog
  Novartis ( NVS ) recently released encouraging data on its pipeline candidate, LDK378, from a phase I study (n=114). We note that Novartis is developing LDK378 for the treatment of
  June 10, 2013 - Nasdaq

Quotes

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• Daniel Day-Lewis in Guardian Unlimited
  We should leave him alone and we should leave his family alone to suffer their unimaginable grief in private, and it's not going to happen,Day-Lewis said backstage. "We should just stop encouraging people to have greater and greater...
• President Bush in Canada.com
  Evidently the winds are more favourable today, which should be encouraging to the firefighters,Bush said.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Daily Mail
  Mrs Clinton said it was "absolutely wrong" to release Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, adding: "We are still encouraging the Scottish authorities not to do so and we hope that they will not."