Sentence examples for sounded encouraging from inspiring English sources

The numbers all sounded encouraging.

An IAEA spokesman said the agreement sounded "encouraging" but said the agency "hopes and expects that in the next few days Iran will deliver... a full declaration of all its past nuclear activities and an official notification of its readiness to conclude an additional protocol".

IT SOUNDED encouraging: a "moratorium on violence" in Aceh, one of several Indonesian provinces where rebels are demanding an independent state.

"What they described sounded encouraging".

Yet the department's bare-bones statement hardly sounded encouraging: "We are continuing our analysis of this program.

Randolph sounded encouraged with Duque's bullpen session from Tuesday and seems to think he'll be OK tomorrow.

Though Astacio's agent, Stephen Schneider, did not give specifics of his talks with the Mets, he sounded encouraged yesterday.

Still, I was amused even then by how very Sebaldian he sounded, encouraged thus by a glitter in his eyes, and by a slightly sardonic fatigue in his voice.

(After meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other officials, Kerry sounded encouraged by Beijing's commitment to pressuring North Korea Chinaina could not have more forcefully reiterated its commitment to that goal" — but he had little progress to report on the territorial disputes).

Informed of Hill's stance, Andrew Friedman, the president of baseball operations, sounded encouraged by the enthusiasm.

Two Democratic lawmakers from the Pomona area, Rep. Norma Torres and state Assemblyman Freddie Rodriguez, sounded encouraged by the hiring of Santana but said they want to see more done on executive pay.