Sentence examples for heartened in the from inspiring English sources

"We have been greatly heartened in the past year to see a number of communities considering legislation and extending sites under their landmark preservation ordinances," Dr. MacKay said.

Having said that, I was heartened in the last 10 minutes by the revelation that almost half the people in Ludlow are hidden away on a rundown estate with no Michelin restaurants on the edge of town, many of them acned and jobless and riding skateboards.

"Today we remember that our children are our future, and we are heartened in the knowledge that by investing in them every day, by fighting for their health and well-being, for their education and protection, we are helping to build a stronger, healthier world".

Personally I'm heartened in this debate by the fact that indie and downloadable games are taking off like crazy.

There's something heartening in the notion that when faced with challenges, no animal, however small or ugly or overmatched, seems content to just throw in the towel.

There is something heartening in the concept... Implicit in it is a cheerful "Why not?" that flies in the face of the morbid fatalism infecting so much of the discussion of the nuclear predicament.

There is something heartening in the concept... Implicit in it is a cheerful "Why not?" that flies in the face of the morbid fatalism infecting so much of the discussion of the nuclear predicament..

That we have a reservoir of American jurists capable of asserting the centrality of careful and equitable reasoning — not merely, or, these days, especially, on the Supreme Court but throughout the land — and of making clear decisions by clear majorities, is heartening here, as it was heartening in the recent case of the refugee ban.

What is heartening in the midst of the current backlash and, yes, it is a full-scale backlash – rising unemployment for women, a Tory government pushing women back into the home, the targeting of single parents – is to see some women in the public eye fighting back.

It has been greatly heartening in the face of the sustained and repeated cuts of recent years to see that the theatre sector has responded by becoming more collaborative; that building-based theatres are being more transparent; that many buildings are genuinely trying to work better as partners with small companies and solo artists.

It was heartening in the synod's debate to hear Dr Williams say that he opposed any structural form of humiliation for women, and I know he means it – though how telling of our church that an Archbishop of Canterbury needs to say it at all.