it's not encouraging

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

But it's not encouraging.

It makes for a good story but it's not encouraging to hear that so much hangs on chance.

In an outfit like this, chemistry counts, so it's not encouraging that they play like a group of well-rehearsed strangers.

"It's putting a strain on the country, and it's not encouraging to foreign investors to see how those parastatals are being run as an example of how South Africa is being run".

It's not encouraging that the governor compared himself on Friday to King David, the adulterous and murderous Biblical king who fell out of God's favor "but then picked up the pieces and built from there".

This phenomenon is looming over the race for the White House and it's not encouraging for Hillary Clinton.

"So it's not encouraged.

"Sadly, it's not encouraged very much these days," Mr. Plummer, 75, said from his Connecticut home.

And although catching to eat isn't uncommon, it's not encouraged.

It seems to be wanting to create a generation of rather inert citizens who accept austerity and are resilient to its many manifestations, but it is not encouraging them to change things".

Marco Verratti was also forced off before the end but it is not encouraging for Chelsea when Mourinho's analysis involved emphasising the point, not for the first time, about it being "difficult for us to score goals".