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Example sentences for: heartening

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Isn't this basically a heartening trend?
USA Today leads with news that might be heartening for many users of the now withdrawn diet concoction Redux: a new study suggests that short-term use of the drug is not associated with an increase in heart valve problems.
Indeed, the large increase in the number of students declining to give their ethnic origin was one of the more striking, and heartening, phenomena in the UC admissions stats (and one the NYT ignored in its April 1 story).
We thank everyone who resubscribed, sight unseen, and especially those who enclosed heartening notes, made helpful suggestions, and, in general, cheered us on.
The Los Angeles Times leads with the heartening nuclear weapons agreement reached over the weekend by India and Pakistan, a story fronted by the New York Times , but carried inside at USA Today and the WP . The NYT goes with the call by governors of both parties from their winter national meeting for President Clinton and Congress to quit the partisan bickering of the impeachment and get back to issues of concern to voters such as education.