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Example sentences for: heartened

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I was heartened to see entries for Raymond Pace Alexander and his wife, Sadie Mossell Alexander.
I am only in favor of subjecting them to criticism, which is what I have done in the pages of Commentary , and which I was heartened to see Shulevitz has herself now done in
2) The trial itself has already tamed Microsoft and heartened its competitors.
Conservatives are heartened, though a few winced at his boast that Republican ideas are carrying the day--in Mongolia.
I hope so, although I was not heartened by an article I read this morning in the Los Angeles Times about the fact that despite numerous hate crimes laws on the books, few are being implemented by police, who appear to decline to report obvious hate crimes as such.