Sentence examples for heartening performance from inspiring English sources

Yet the afternoon featured a heartening performance by the rookie Collin McHugh, who pitched seven scoreless innings in his major league debut.

It was a place lower than at Beijing in 2008 but was a heartening performance, 12 months after she considered quitting the sport.

Jason Davidson headed into his own net after 63 minutes and Ross McCormack rounded off a heartening performance for the Scots by driving home the third 13 minutes later.

Although they could not quite get over the last hurdle, going down 2-0 despite a heartening performance that showed their strength, it brought to an end a period that players and coaches alike can be proud of.

England's six-wicket win over Pakistan here on Tuesday featured a clutch of heartening performances from players hoping to travel onwards for the Test tour of South Africa next month.

The visitors went into the game on the back of a heartening result and performance against Watford, Bakary Sako's late goal securing a 1-1 dragainstnst one of the division's form sides.

The manager was particularly heartened by the performance of James McCarthy.

Northern Ireland 4-0 Azerbaijan: match report Excelling against Liechtenstein is no big deal but even so Italy will have been heartened by their performance on Saturday.

He was heartened by the performance of Nick Price last month, when Price won the MasterCard Colonial at age 45. "Sure, I was happy for Nick, Suttonn said.

Wall Street analysts said they were heartened by the performance in Europe, McDonald's second-largest market, where sales at restaurants open more than a year rose 1percentthethe company's best performance in more than a year.

An estimated 5,000 England fans who had made the long journey to Manaus in the heart of the Amazon and millions more staying up past midnight to watch at home were left heartened by the performance but disappointed with the result.