"The rock is behaving well and it looks pretty soft, so that's encouraging, " he told BBC News.
That's encouraging because it means people can give again who have been giving.
The pace of hiring and growth is picking up, and that's encouraging news.
There are many positive things, a good spirit and that's encouraging.
In the aftermath of the harshest economic downturn since the Great Depression, with banks still afraid to lend and small business owners afraid to borrow, that's an encouraging trend.
So clearly a strong operational performance that's very encouraging.
And while it's somewhat encouraging that this number is lower than it's been in each of the past six months, it's still a sobering toll.
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In a 2004 study on the parenting beliefs of college-educated mothers in the U.S. and France, the American moms said that encouraging one's child to play alone was of average importance.
Obviously determinations are going to be made by the ECC, by the IEC, and then it's going to be incredibly important, Jake, for the world to see that Afghan leaders are willing to make this process legitimate, and that's the process that we're encouraging.
It's encouraging that there has been a focus on rebuilding with better techniques to resist future quakes and not just throwing up the same buildings again.
And while it's encouraging that Glickman recognized the "impatience" of consumers, he didn't give a timeline, instead saying that pricing and business models were "way beyond" him.
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That's not an encouraging sign.
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Rebecca Jeschke of the digital rights advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Google's recognition of the problem is encouraging, but that the company has a long way to go in deflecting future privacy concerns.
Is the report true that's published on Politico that the White House is encouraging Senator Reid to sit down and make a deal with Lieberman and give up on the Medicare expansion?
The company's first ad in the campaign is posted to YouTube -- no new products here, sadly, but it's an encouraging sign to see that one of the world's most prolific ODMs and smartphone manufacturers now thinks that the American market is mature enough to be dealt with directly.
For any skeptics out there, it's definitely encouraging that the people behind YotaPhone are old hands in this field.
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In 1996, English teachers in Guangdong complained that Li's methods were encouraging students to ignore their regular English studies.
"What's encouraging is that we had a huge advance in bookings and that stayed up even through the disaster, " he said.
With hindsight, it is evident that encouraging U.S. investments in such nations by obliging the taxpayer to assume the risks of doing business there has not necessarily led to either structural economic or political reform.
Talking about the situation at the moment, would you say the thing that caused all this, namely the beginning of decommissioning by, by the IRA, would you say, do you view that, obviously it's encouraging and symbolic and so on and so forth, do you think they are now committed to full decommissioning?
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Most worrying of all for the Clintonistas is the fact that Mr Obama's rising fortunes are encouraging the Democrats to ask some tough questions about Mrs Clinton's biography, questions that the Clinton camp had hoped to suppress by a combination of muscle and momentum.
That is encouraging the world's auto makers to continue cruising in the fast lane.
It's encouraging to see that the price at the pump has dropped significantly, although it took a bit of pressure from Mr Brown.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has also begun a "strategic economic dialogue" with China, aimed at bolstering capital markets in that country and encouraging U.S. investment there.
What's more encouraging is that while warning about American Online ads, the parent company reaffirmed its guidance on its overall performance--both sales and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
He said that despite the uncertainty, it was an encouraging sign that the Canadian and U.S. economies are generating positive job growth.
And that's what we are going to be encouraging the international community to do.
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