Sentence examples for modestly encouraged from inspiring English sources
"We are modestly encouraged by this increase in trading, as well as by a small increase in margin loans and our clients' heightened interest in actively managed equity funds," David S. Pottruck, the company's chief executive, said in a statement.
Thus far, Eriksson's results have been modestly encouraging.
The results, reported in a recent academic paper, are modestly encouraging.
His chief economic adviser cited "modestly encouraging" signs that consumer spending had stabilized.
Jennifer McKeown, an economist in London with Capital Economics, described the data as "modestly encouraging".
The picture that emerges from this year's survey is one that is modestly encouraging for democrats.Three years of economic growth averaging around 4.5% and a plethora of elections in the region over the past 13 months have provided a democracy dividend.
"We had to walk him back from that one," says a Democrat at the State Department, grimly.All of which makes it remarkable that, on the big question of the military review, Mr Cohen's remarks are modestly encouraging.
However, the consensus on the success of traditional efforts to encourage health promotion is that they have been at best modestly effective (Luoto and Carman 2014).
We are encouraged to dress modestly, and not talk to strangers.
"G.M. ushered you into auto ownership with a modestly priced Chevy and then encouraged you to aspire to an Olds, a Pontiac, a Buick and — at the pinnacle — a Cadillac," explains Nancy Friedman, a branding consultant based in Oakland, Calif.
"My own view of that has always been highly questionable — those instruments also encourage significant risk-taking and looking at risk modestly rather than incisively".
