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The fare increase was welcomed by analysts.

These increases are welcomed by refugee advocates, but the numbers represent only a drop in the bucket compared to what many other smaller countries are grappling with.

These increases are welcomed and are consistent with the efforts of the World Health Organisation and funding bodies, such as The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to address the problem of childhood pneumonia in resource-poor settings (Adegbola, 2012).

Any sort of increase was welcome news to the industry, given the long slide in DVD sales.

Yes, confirmation that personal tax allowances will increase is welcome.

The front-loading of the increase is welcome and will ameliorate some of the worst effects of the current financial crisis in the acute sector.

But we did think it meant the government was taking low pay a bit more seriously – and when you're on as little money as we are, any increase is welcome.

Still, "in the current environment any increase is welcome.

The increase is welcome but remains below the targets used in the national prescribing indicators and confirms the need to introduce improvement initiatives in other inpatient departments.

Edmund King, the executive director of the RAC Foundation, said any increase in spending was welcomed but added: "We need to see a greater proportion spent on roads.

While the headline figure was less than expected, revisions mitigate that miss while the other parts of the report, specifically the unemployment rate drop and earnings increase, will be welcomed by the Fed," he explained.