Sentence examples for a discouraging start from inspiring English sources

But it was a discouraging start.

The campaign for the regional election in Catalonia on 28 November got off to a discouraging start for Spain's ruling Socialist party (PSOE).

At the Liberty Stadium, against a Swansea team also fighting for, and gaining, Premier League security, Villa got away to a discouraging start when Jonjo Shelvey took their central defenders out of the game with a through-pass that enabled the increasingly prolific Wilfried Bony to run on and score from the edge of the penalty area.

But it was a discouraging start for the latest scion of the Gandhi dynasty to front the Congress party, already weighed down by the perception that it is on the ropes after a decade in power.

Despite this discouraging start, Congress passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which reduced the top income-tax rate from fifty per cent to twenty-eight per cent.

INSIDE PITCH BOBBY ABREU's homer off Mets reliever RICH RODRIGUEZ was the first of Abreu's 41 career homers to come off a left-handed pitcher.... BOBBY J. JONES said he was going to find answers to his last two discouraging starts, and the Mets right-hander believes he did in a 75-pitch bullpen session Wednesday.

At the starting and finishing lines and along the course, truly a discouraging word is never heard.

I know that it's been a discouraging few years for proponents of reproductive health care in Wisconsin, but I'm excited to start talking about this transformative new vision for our state.

The play started identically, with a club to the ace, the heart ace (West sending a discouraging signal) and another club.

It was a discouraging setback.

It was a discouraging time.