Enough exploration work had been conducted while Bell's encouraging reports were finally giving the camp some positive results.

"We've gotten some encouraging reports recently, but the market was not trading on any fundamentals today," he said.

Nor were the increasingly brief reports from the army in the north any more encouraging.

He never found fault with him; he tried to accept his encouraging reports at their face value.

Towards the end of 1957 the London embassy put together a relatively encouraging report.

There were encouraging reports of an increase in emigration and demands for more.

It does seem to be on the whole a very encouraging report.

On the whole, this is a very encouraging report.

We hope to have encouraging reports of it soon.

Technology issues were also strong, propelled by an encouraging report from a trade group on semiconductor sales.