1.   Yorkshire A regional bookshop was opened at the regional office and has made an encouraging start.

2.   Looking forward, we have made an encouraging start to the year with buoyant export sales.

3.   Leeds will play more testing outfits this season -- City had five players injured -- but this was an encouraging start.

4.   The stark fact is that the Quakers have failed to achieve back-to-back victories since an encouraging start to the season when they won their first two games.

5.   Scotland had made an encouraging start, never giving the world champions time to settle on the ball.

6.   The U K stock market was in a lethargic mood today, despite an encouraging start to Wall Street.

7.   And an encouraging start on Wall Street followed the announcement that a budget settlement had been reached.

8.   But in Texas, it makes for an encouraging start.

9.   Despite its encouraging start, both artistically and as a technology leader, Pixar illustrates the challenges of building an animation studio and an animation business.