| Xavier smiled encouragingly at her, and Zeya looked ready to pommel anyone who touched her. |
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| Instead I nod sagely and smile encouragingly because there is actually nothing worse than the sleeplessness that comes with a new baby. |
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| More encouragingly, having weathered the storm, the Minstermen set about establishing a foothold in the game. |
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| Most encouragingly, everyone believes that improvement is possible and practicable. |
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| The entire room continued to stare stonily at me while Wanda nodded encouragingly. |
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| A reasonable number of anglers fished the lake and, encouragingly, reported that good numbers of fish were observed. |
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| There ought always to be a blind man grinning encouragingly, receptively, at meetings, she thought. |
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| More encouragingly for the party, the others were outside its traditional strongholds, in Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield. |
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| After a washout on Wednesday, the queue down Church Road was encouragingly huge and inside the All England Club players were hurrying to the practice courts. |
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| It's not a multitrack editor, more's the pity, but for quick-and-dirty edit work with basic transitions and soundtrack mixing, it works encouragingly well. |
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| Most encouragingly, it can point to outcome data that shows its efforts are leading to tangible outcomes. |
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| The conference report is encouragingly positive, but the precise balance between particularism and universalism remained to be clarified. |
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| For a first time meeting between people of two diverse regions, the discussions were encouragingly substantive, candid and positive. |
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| The newly-added dinner-show cruises aboard the Bateau-Mouche were encouragingly successful in their inaugural year. |
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| Participation in this survey by TSB employees was encouragingly high, identifying a variety of issues to be addressed. |
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| And, most encouragingly, we can see new areas of the brain taking on functions for his upper and lower limbs. |
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| The housing plan, whose details were at last announced this week, has also been encouragingly to the point. |
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| I smiled encouragingly when she turned a bleak expression on me. |
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| Recent progress reports reveal that Brazil, for example, has already reached its target and, encouragingly, it appears that some African countries are on course to do so. |
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| When the position of Ombudsman was created by the Treaty of Maastricht, we were at an important crossroads between a basically economic Union and an encouragingly political Union. |
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| And for the first few songs, he was encouragingly, overcompensatingly manic, his good leg pumping, talking up the greatness in store. |
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| Though the NAM wants Beijing to revalue the yuan, it does not support the Schumer bill. Less encouragingly, the political and economic risks are bigger this time round. |
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| More encouragingly, there's a glimpse of growth in top-line profits. |
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| Overall, the consumer market has remained encouragingly stable despite important increases in consumption in the countries along major trafficking routes. |
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| This parliamentary initiative marks a veritable turning point in institutional appreciation of the agricultural issues of recent years, and bodes quite encouragingly well for the future. |
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| Still she remained composed, and even encouragingly grand in defeat. |
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| She clicked the recording button and looked at me encouragingly. |
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| But if you want a sporting bet you could do a great deal worse than grab some 25-1 each-way about Godolphin's Laverock who ran encouragingly at the Newmarket July festival. |
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