Sentence examples for only positive development from inspiring English sources

About the only positive development of the night for them was that the Devils lost to Colorado, so the Islanders, the sixth-place team in the Eastern Conference, maintained a 4-point lead over the Devils.

The only positive development for the Mets was that Atlanta, the leader in the N.L. wild-card race, lost, too, and the Mets are still seven and a half games off the pace for that playoff spot.

The remote possibility that an AIDS treatment can arise from the study of white-nose is about the only positive development since the bat disease was first discovered in a cave near Albany, N.Y., in 2008.

Thus far, the only positive development for the defense has been the judge's granting of a hearing, at which Mr. Pellicano's lawyers may question agents including Mr. Ornellas about whether they had improperly used Mr. Pellicano's girlfriend at the time, Sandra Carradine, as an informant when she visited him in jail.

So far, the only positive development in the Libyan arena is the rare leadership shown by Britain and France.

For consumers, falling commodity prices have been one of the only positive developments in a profoundly depressed economic landscape.

The Ducks jumped out to a quick lead on Daniel Sprong's goal, but that, coupled with the team's ability to stay completely out of the penalty box, were the only positive developments.

The decline of the ingénue reveals only positive developments for women in and around Hollywood: That they've inhabited more complex roles, that they've been allowed to sympathetically portray sexual maturity, that women of color have fought to be viewed as innocents, and that women have made progress in being viewed as people, not as two-dimensional Madonnas or whores.

A democratic and responsive Iraq, with power diffused among various communities and focused mainly on the welfare of its citizens, would not only be a positive development but a revolutionary one.

Any development within opera that enables the artform to be viewed by new and different audiences can only be a positive development, but I'm not so much in favour of presenting work in unusual spaces for the sake of it.

In theory, such a bouleversement of rigid intellectual hierarchies can only be a positive development.