Ridge initially encourages their relationship, but he ends up crashing their wedding.

He initially encourages Alec to take Zoë out on a date.

In 1993, the Supreme Court made a ruling that initially encouraged women's advocates.

While Maciek initially encourages the romance, he soon tires of Karen and tries to extricate himself from the relationship.

She initially encouraged the students to take Oxford degrees though Oxford did not admit women to its degrees until 1920.

Muir and the Sierra Club initially encouraged efforts to increase visitation to the park.

For that reason, Mr. Hale said, he did not initially encourage the repairs.

They initially encouraged the armed petitions but then were dismayed when this led to the émeute (riot) of June 20.

The Dutch initially encouraged this, since the Han were skilled in agriculture and large-scale hunting.

The statistical study resembles a 1994 survey of abusive priests that the bishops initially encouraged and then killed, said several psychologists involved in the earlier study.