It took effort to keep his tone mild and encouraging, when the temptation was simply to shake the woman's news out of her.

'Out in a minute,' she said in a bright, encouraging tone.

"We will survive this, make no mistake about that," Thornhill said in an encouraging tone.

There is always the problem of maintaining an encouraging tone to written reports.

This month the European Union issued a new report that took a much more encouraging tone.

That's why we get paid the big bucks," the officer said in an encouraging tone.

Anne's first words were not uttered in the encouraging tones Robyn had hoped for.

Suddenly a man crossed the street and put his arm around the woman, speaking to her in encouraging tones.

He approached and spoke in a quiet, encouraging tone.

I really believe that we should be talking in more encouraging tones to Turkey at the moment.