Sentence examples for encouraging start for from inspiring English sources

Monday's press conference in Berlin was an encouraging start for Macron and for the post-Brexit, post-Le Pen E.U.

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.

As for Warrington, despite an encouraging start for the ambitious caretaker James Lowes, as stated here several weeks ago another former St George player, Tony Smith, must surely remain the No1 target, despite his recent emphatic denial of interest.

It was an encouraging start for the home support at Dens Park, then, to see Stephen O'Donnell fire in the first real shot on target.

It was an encouraging start for Mercedes, but it is not necessarily an indication of form - Hamilton has been fastest in first practice at the last three grands prix, and Vettel has won all of them.

It has been an encouraging start for Woods.

It was an encouraging start to the year for a broad swath of the nation's retailers.

It has been an encouraging start to the season for them under Ian Holloway, who himself attributes much of the credit to the financial support he has had from the club's wealthy Latvian president and benefactor, Valery Belokon: "I find it quite amazing that I have already spent nearly £800,000 [in signing Neil Eardley and Charlie Adam from Oldham and Rangers]," Holloway said last week.

Despite the modest six-point margin of victory, this was a very encouraging start to the season for the Giants.

That, if it were completely true, would be an encouraging starting-point for a drive to oppose the "tiny" minority who do not entirely share that view.Unfortunately the minority is not tiny.

An encouraging start to life with Stoke for Bojan was halted last season when he suffered a serious knee injury in January.