Sentence examples for looking very encouraging from inspiring English sources

"In China, historically the exit route has been an I.P.O. on the U.S. markets, but at the moment that route is not looking very encouraging," Lucian Wu, managing director of Paul Capital, which has $6 billion in assets under management, said at an industry forum in Hong Kong on Thursday.

Christmas time it wasn't looking very encouraging but we've turned it around and all credit to the players, staff and supporters.

And while I won't share the specifics, even now the trends are looking very encouraging across the companies my partners and I are involved with.

THE statistics do not look very encouraging.

"The consumer story does not look very encouraging," said Brian A. Bethune, an economist at the research firm Global Insight.

Consider the following passage from the UN secretary general's own report, Keeping the Promise:   … without China, progress does not look very encouraging; in fact, the number of people living in extreme poverty actually went up between 1990 and 2005 by about 36 million..

"With Chris Nash and Luke Wright still to return to the side, the prospects for Sussex look very encouraging, and they now have a break over Easter before Somerset visit Hove".

"From what I've seen it looks very encouraging, though there is a lot of work to be done," says John Learned, a physicist and neutrino astronomer at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.