Sentence examples for were pleased over from inspiring English sources

Administration officials say they had been working closely with Russia each step of the way, and were pleased over the weekend that the Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, had raised anew the prospect of economic sanctions if Iran rebuffed the offer.

"Mrs. Hewitt and I were pleased over the weekend to contribute to your Senate campaign.

But she was pleased over all.

He said that he was pleased, over all, with the war's progress.

"We had a few minor hiccups along the way," said the shuttle commander, Lt. Col. Steven W. Lindsey of the Air Force, adding that he was pleased over all.

He said the party was pleased over all with the way the 2006 races were stacking up, and he pointed to strong Republican campaigns for seats Democrats are vacating in Minnesota and Maryland.

"We're pleased over all that he has made wetlands such an urgent theme," said Eric Kezler, the communications director for Ducks Unlimited, a conservation group in Memphis, that works to restore wetlands.

For the most part, his players obliged — save for Luis Castillo's short-armed throw that produced an unearned run in the seventh — and Manuel said he was pleased over all with the effort, if not the results.

Dr. Richard Fischer, chairman of maternal fetal medicine at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., while saying he was pleased over all with the LabCorp counselors, said that he to resist the company's counselors to offer a test to all pregnant women that was not recommended by ACOG.

Indeed we have been pleased over the past several years to hear George Osborne – and the previous science ministers, David Willetts and Greg Clark – speak warmly of the value not just of UK scientific prowess – which remains for now among the very best in the world – but also of blue-skies research.

Mr. van Hooydonk said designers were pleased to take over the design of camouflage from their internal rivals, the engineers.