1.   Also encouraging were promises by Harrington to negotiate day after day until a settlement is reached.

2.   Especially encouraging are the price gains.

3.   His debilitating mental condition was likey encouraged by his prodigious use of LSD.

4.   In a written statement, Beth Israel officials said that the hospital follows standard protocol when patients have been victims of a crime, encouraging them to press charges.

5.   It was all encouraging enough for Small to think of applying to that grand governing body of French fashion, the Chambre Syndicale du Pret-a-Porter.

6.   Schmidt, the stock analyst, said the data showing a long period of relief after treatment with Amevive are particlularly encouraging.

7.   Serbs were later encouraged to move to rich farmlands in northern Serbia to shore up their numbers in an area with a large Hungarian population.

8.   The ARF participants are further encouraged to submit annually a defence policy ... on a voluntary basis.