One encouraging sign for the QCDA is that calls for marking reviews fell this summer.
Northern Manhattan Democrats for Change, a local political club, organized a drive encouraging residents to mark Dominican as national origin on the census form.
This week's meetings between South Korea's president, Kim Dae Jung, and North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, mark an encouraging change in the relationship between the two Koreas.
The SMMT chief executive, Mike Hawes, said: "These figures mark an encouraging start to the year after a very strong 2014, with a strikingly robust company car market as businesses take advantage of the attractive finance offers currently available.
Saturday's match also marked an encouraging return to action for Suns captain Gary Ablett.
The two mysterious explosions that sent the vessel crashing to the seabed had killed most people on board almost instantly.By Soviet standards, all this marks an encouraging move towards openness; previous submarine accidents were simply hushed up.
The Payments Council, the body responsible for payment services which published the numbers, said it marked an "encouraging start" for its seven-day account switching service, which was launched in September.
It helps, too, that cities small and large are encouraging pedal power by marking new bike lanes.
This marks an encouraging step of translating biomarker discovery from laboratory to clinic.
Mayte Garcia, Prince's ex-wife, who is working alongside the charity, has said that they would mark his birthday every year, encouraging Prince fans to make a "veg pledge" and go vegan in support of his legacy.
