Encourage
Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging
Protest
Protest verb - To state as a fact usually forcefully.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Scott Adams, on the other hand, gleefully takes the bookstores' more positive point of view in one of his books, offering to chip in a few bucks for markers and protest signs for anyone who finds him offensive, as protests and burnings will encourage bigger sales for his books.
Source: Book Burning -
Source materials encourage this, even suggesting a GM may send forms other than what players requested and then execute them for treason if they fail to fill them out correctly or protest that they got the wrong ones.
Source: Obstructive Bureaucrat -
Protest Song: "Shout" is a bit of a meta example; the lyrics themselves don't actually protest anything in particular, but they encourage protest.
Source: Music / Tears for Fears
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