Insurance companies will often try to encourage the person back into employment in preference to and before declaring them unable to work at all and therefore totally disabled.

Consumer pressure could encourage palm oil companies to modify their practices.

To encourage overseas trade with the Levant, Senegal, Guinea and other places, Colbert granted privileges to companies, but, like the noted French East India Company, all proved unsuccessful.

The two companies competed fiercely to encourage others to adopt their format, but by 1984 forty companies were using JVC's VHS format, while only 12 used Betamax.

" The act required companies with over 100 employees to encourage car pools, public transportation, shortened workweeks, and telecommuting.

In June 2010, Duncan Smith said that the Government will encourage people to work for longer by making it illegal for companies to force staff to give up work at 65.

For example, in the United States, the patent rights given to pharmaceutical companies encourage them to charge high prices ( above marginal cost ) and to advertise to convince patients to persuade their doctors to prescribe the drugs.

Insurance companies worried that protecting their clients from risks ( like fire, or car accidents ) might encourage those clients to behave in riskier ways ( like smoking in bed or not wearing seat belts ).

PhRMA's stated mission is advocacy for public policies that encourage the discovery of new medicines for patients by pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical research companies.

On its website, PhRMA states its " mission is winning advocacy for public policies that encourage the discovery of life-saving and life-enhancing new medicines for patients by pharmaceutical / biotechnology research companies.

The Société générale de financement ( General financing corporation ) was created in 1962 to encourage Québécois to invest in their economic future and to increase the profitability of small companies.

To allay consumers ' fears, and encourage them to make " big ticket " purchases, companies have used a variety of techniques, such as offering " try-before-you-buy " programs, warranties, money-back guarantees, and " 30-day exchange " programs.

" Pure " private economic interests would not have constructed these routes on their own, so France used government rewards and pressure to encourage the rail companies to build the needed lines.

These companies may provide some tools and resources and encourage managers to accept mentoring requests from more junior members of the organization.

He granted foreign companies concessions to encourage development and even intervened in a labour dispute in 1959.

Squash companies can use many types of advertising to encourage their products to appeal to customers.

Some companies will completely cover the cost of expatriate children's education, even at relatively expensive international schools, while other, usually smaller companies, encourage families to find local schooling options.

Other companies however hold the exact opposite opinion, and actually encourage their actors to wear the shirt as often as possible before opening night to increase ticket sales.

Small private companies were encouraged, protectionist import restrictions were loosened, and the government reduced positive discrimination, to encourage free market trade and to force the chaebol to be more aggressive abroad.

On the other side, some companies actively encourage modding of their products.

Some competition production companies encourage celebrations like this, while others prefer dancers to take a more introspective approach to the competition results. A dance routine may receive an individual award based on its final score, or based on its ranking in a particular category, depending on the competition.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the U. S. Congress used legislation ( such as the Kelly Act and the McNary-Watres Act ), and the U. S. Postal Service under Walter Folger Brown used air mail contract regulations, as tools to foster private-sector aviation companies ( manufacturers, airlines, and conglomerates thereof ) in order to encourage the development of a civil aviation system that would provide passenger airline service and cargo transport by air as widespread facets of American life, on a profitable basis — an ambitious notion at the time for a nationwide infrastructure that mostly did not yet exist.

( d ) the phasing out of the depletion allowances for oil and gas exploration and development, which will be replaced with a new system of direct incentive payments, structured to encourage investment by Canadian companies, with added incentives for exploration on Canada Lands ;

" For many reasons, some historical and some religious, Judaism does not encourage its members to convert others and in fact would require the initiative from the person who would like to convert.

In some circumstances, taxes are also used to enforce public policy like congestion charge ( to cut road traffic and encourage public transport ) in London.

There are few think tanks like Centre for Civil Society who promote liberal social and economic ideas and others like the Rakshak Foundation, who encourage students to do empirical research and gain first hand experience in public policy issues.

Given expectations about returns on fixed investment, every level of the real interest rate ( i ) will generate a certain level of planned fixed investment and other interest-sensitive spending: lower interest rates encourage higher fixed investment and the like.

Because of the oil boom since the 1970s, there has been little extensive government incentive to help develop and encourage new industries in the private sector, in contrast to other Nordic countries like Sweden and particularly Finland.

Free Blacks, who were the majority of Black Bermudians in the 17th century, were threatened with enslavement as an attempt to encourage their emigration, and slave owners were encouraged to export enslaved Blacks ( with all slaves seen, like horses on an archipelago with dense forests and few roads, as a status symbol ) whenever a war loomed, as they were portrayed as unnecessary bellies to feed during times of shortage ( even before abandoning agriculture for maritime activities in 1684, Bermuda had become reliant on food imports ).

According to spokesperson Vivian Tan of the WHO office in Beijing, " In cases like this August 2009, we encourage the authorities to identify cases, to investigate any suspicious symptoms among close contacts, and to treat confirmed cases as soon as possible.

The loss of regions traditionally within the vital regional trading area of countries like Japan would encourage the front-line countries to compromise politically with communism.

General laws could also be used to transmit knowledge and encourage spontaneous order in human societies ( much like the use of Adam Smith's invisible hand in economics ).

She reveals at this time that many of the Creedish suicides were really murders masked to look like suicides to encourage more survivors to kill themselves.

Developing countries like India, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Honduras encourage the outsourcing of work from the developed world to factories within their borders in order to provide employment for their people and profits to their employers.

Organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank have started to create programs like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation ( REDD ) that works especially with developing countries to use subsidies or other incentives to encourage citizens to use the forest in a more sustainable way.

Police also encourage vulnerable groups like pensioners and women to carry pepper spray.

Paige would later claim, jokingly, that his guards positioned themselves " like a firing squad " to encourage him to pitch well.

Foreign rulers like the Emperor of Austria, Russian Tsar Peter the Great and even the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire sent tall soldiers to him in order to encourage friendly relations.

He did not, like the later Pietists, insist on the necessity of a conscious crisis of conversion, nor did he encourage a complete breach between the Christian and the secular life.

This definition is essentially like that of the Orphan Drug Act of 1983, a federal law that was written to encourage research into rare diseases and possible cures.

' It was really neat to have someone encourage us like that.

Opening the exhibition of art by the Novecento Italiano group in 1923 he said, " I declare that it is far from my idea to encourage anything like a state art.

* To take all reasonable steps to support the continuance of fishing involving the use of coracles and to encourage the holding of coracle regattas, races and the like,