Changing that is one of many tough requirements on Turkey's road to the European Union.An encouraging if modest step comes with a new biography of Ataturk's wife, Latife Ussaki, by a veteran journalist, Ipek Calislar.
But the Dolphins' ability to move the ball would have been encouraging if not for two turnovers in the fourth quarter, and one in overtime, which let the Cardinals escape with a win.
The episode marks an encouraging if humble milestone for the transgender cause — and more broadly for human rights in Vietnam, which is better known for cracking down on bloggers, demonstrators and believers of minority faiths.
It would be encouraging if sanctions, international pressure and the example of Sept. 11 succeeded in leading Libya to take the remaining steps needed to end its international ostracism.
From the time the D.S.M.-III first took the descriptive approach, in 1980, bureaucracies like Insel's and Hyman's, which fund most of the mental-health research in the country, began acting as if diagnoses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder described conditions as real as AIDS or lymphoma, encouraging, if not forcing, researchers to tie their studies to D.S.M. diagnoses.
Tracy Lefteroff, global managing partner of the venture capital practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, is cautiously optimistic: "The signs are encouraging, if not yet definitive.
One strategy is to create a classroom environment with high expectations and a low- to zero-tolerance policy for irresponsible behavior or late assignments, thereby encouraging if not forcing students to set goals for themselves and achieve them.
Developers that have already signed on include Chat Republic and Seepia, the company says, and that trial usage so far has been encouraging, if perhaps a little empty in its early days.
The impact of this work has been encouraging, if less than incredible.
The results of the Szulczewski et al analysis are pretty encouraging if you're rooting for coal.
