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Example sentences for: heartening

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In the August 6 PDB reporting to President Bush of 70 full-field investigations related to al Qaeda, news the President said he found heartening, the CIA had simply restated what the FBI had said.
The most heartening news from the younger generation this year (apart from the popularity of South Park ) is that they're smoking in ever greater numbers.
It is heartening to know that despite not having reaped the obvious benefits of British colonialism, Guatemala still represents a cheap silver buying opportunity for fat American wallets.
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).
More heartening was the revelation in both papers that a white woman famously captured in a 1957 photograph cursing the entering black students was present to publicly apologize for her long-ago actions.