This is an encouraging finding on two fronts.

Recent hearings and analyses of air quality near the site of the World Trade Center collapse have produced some encouraging findings.

The most comprehensive study yet of the levels of potentially harmful substances in Americans has some encouraging findings, and sometimes surprising ones.

The most encouraging finding was that estrogen alone, unlike the combination pills, did not increase the risk of breast cancer.

Despite those encouraging findings, the report included a number of warnings that bullying, violent crime, drinking and drugs remained a serious problem at many schools.

These encouraging findings, and the framework they support, are gaining wide acceptance among memory researchers.

There were some encouraging findings for Mr. Bush.

Without being complacent about it, that was an encouraging finding.

Despite the encouraging findings, experts advised that hepatitis patients not be treated until a large study confirms that treatment is effective and worth the risks.

Those earlier, more encouraging findings were the basis for federal guidelines that recommended the products for smoking cessation.