There was, however, encouraging news for other British riders.
However, encouraging ongoing participation among the stakeholders was challenging.
Further news from the Etihad was not required, however encouraging it might have been a few minutes earlier.
It is, however, encouraging that there was empathetic and candid positivity in the set-up led by Gareth Southgate.
However, encouraging the diffusion of technology in China is an area the state can and should encourage.
Later Taoists were more lenient, however, encouraging a freer, more intuitive approach both to works of art and to nature.
In a statement sent to reporters, Labor Minister Michel Sapin called for "prudence" in interpreting the numbers, however "encouraging" they might seem.
However encouraging it is to be upgrading forecasts after five years of unremitting economic gloom we need to put aside the hype on recovery – the big trends remain deeply disturbing.
However, encouraging reviewers to carefully check the conditions for using data that authors have not created themselves can help to raise both the quality of analysis and fairness in citation of published studies.
But however encouraging for Jones or Blake, it was still a straight-set defeat in a place where Blake has usually generated a great deal more buzz and suspense.
Celtic's performance at Villareal in their second group game, when they lost to a Marcos Senna goal, was, however, encouraging enough for Strachan to describe it as 'the best we've given in my time in these circumstances, the most comfortable I've felt at any away match in the Champions League'.
