Warner's approach may give his development a topsy-turvy quality but he could not have made a more encouraging start.

There's a lot more to do, but it's an encouraging start.

Scotland had made an encouraging start, never giving the world champions time to settle on the ball.

After an encouraging start it was a shame to see Wednesday playing so many long balls.

But this was, all the same, an encouraging start.

After an encouraging start at the club, he joined Vitesse in 1990.

Ternent, however, was not given the chance to improve on his encouraging start.

A spot of waterboarding would get the day off to an encouraging start.

Looking forward, we have made an encouraging start to the year with buoyant export sales.

He was tipped to enjoy similar success as a manager, and had made an encouraging start to his international management career.