Demand and Encourage

Demand

Demand verb - To ask for (something) earnestly or with authority.

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Encourage and demand are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Demand".

Nearby Words: demanding, demanded, demandant

Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.

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Demand and encourage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Demand" instead a verb "Encourage".

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

respect	demand respect	encourage respect
cooperation	demand cooperation	encourage cooperation
people	demand people	encourage people
kind	demand kind	encourage kind
Other words: sort, use, everyone.

War for Fun and Profit: Some Casus Belli encourage the player to demand money instead of lands, as part of the peace treaty.

Source: Video Game / Europa Universalis
This may be because genre conventions demand (or at least, strongly encourage) a Super Hero Origin story in the first movie, which takes up a good chunk of the plot and screen time with a relatively uninteresting everyman character before we even get a chance to see any super-heroics.

Source: Even Better Sequel
HARPG (Horse Art RPG) tends to have an unspoken standard of "family friendly" breeding: groups either explicitly encourage (or even demand) that breeding horse characters is carried out with the stallion and mare "getting to know each other" in "a natural setting", i.e.

Source: Somewhere, an Equestrian Is Crying

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