That s a promising start.

Dialogue seemed like a promising strategy just ten days earlier, Abdullah had announced a promising reform agenda for the country.

A fresh start by the EU with Brazil and Mexico could prove promising, because of the pull it might have on other countries.

On that front, there are promising signs.

This initiative, and the three G 20 summits that have followed, mark a promising start.

Initial efforts have already produced promising results.

The first is energy conservation through more fuel efficient vehicles.

The talks with Kim Jong il and his collaborators seemed promising.

Yet the implementation prospects are far from promising.

The most promising technology in the long term is solar power.

The establishment of legal liability for using trafficked persons was a promising means of combating human trafficking.

While there is arguably a genuine possibility that the recent protests in Tibet will prompt the authorities to change course, early signs are not promising.

The technique is promising, but the initial air separation step demands a lot of energy.

I have also come to the conclusion that the idea of adding preambular language on the right of peoples for self determination is highly promising.

Other promising avenues for leveraging resources and results for children will be assessed.

On the one hand, there have been promising announcements in the areas of foreign debt and official development assistance.

When this began, the new medium looked very promising and exciting it also looked somehow exclusive.

Even an Epstein Barr virus vaccine, which would protect against some kinds of lymphoma, is achieving promising results.

Johnson was a promising football prospect, and received offers from many Division I collegiate programs.

The new partnerships and distribution of tasks put forward by the Inter Agency Standing Committee were a promising step.

While Abe has maintained his position on Yasukuni, his summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao was a promising step forward.

Belarus already has a budding software industry that reports net annual revenues of 300 million.

Raussendorf, Harrington, and Goyal have studied one model, with promising simulation results.

Education, health, environment and, especially, girls and young women are some of the areas in which promising progress has been made.

Fortunately, the new approach set out in the Blair report opened promising prospects arising from the Gleneagles Summit of the Group of Eight.

These techniques are promising but lack the reliability and validity necessary to be used as a reference for clinical purposes.

Iran certainly regarded the meeting as a propaganda opportunity, promising wide media coverage at a time when it was in the eye of a diplomatic hurricane.

In addition, in 2006 the term MANET mostly described an academic area of research, and the term VANET an application.

They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic.

That seemed promising. I thought, maybe I'll do it inside and I can even combine the foldouts with the only partially opened book.

The US Food and Drug Administration s recent approval of several medical devices supported by dedicated phone based readers is a promising step.

As a result, many emerging countries, with their higher interest rates and promising growth prospects, have become irresistibly attractive to investors.

The good news is that there are now opportunities for change, most promisingly through an international effort headed by the World Health Organization that would begin to fix the broken intellectual property regime that is holding back the development and availability of cheap drugs.

After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance.

Economic developments in the region are promising, with almost all its economies posting high growth, fueled by increasing industrial output and exports.

Continued advances in information technology, advanced materials, biotechnology and space applications since then offer promising opportunities for the social and economic development of all countries.

Improved aquaculture, in which fish are grown at manmade fishponds and reservoirs is still far from being a perfect technology, mainly for environmental reasons, yet it is enormously promising.

Would you rather be fat and ugly or thin and sexy?

And the fax said, there should be songs, there should be an I want song, there should be a happy village song, there should be a love story and there should be a villain.

As the prospects of establishing a visa waiver programme in the near future did not appear promising, in January 2005, the Guam Visitors Bureau redirected its efforts and put into action plans to set up Guam tourist information centres in China.32

And as I said, the theory must be biologically accurate, it must be testable, and you must be able to build it.

While this approach is still being studied, the results so far appear promising men who participate in active surveillance programs are 14 times more likely to die of a cause unrelated to prostate cancer.

Likewise, the sharia , Islamic law, entered political life in its least enlightened version in hopeful democracies like Nigeria, to say nothing of Iran.

You re either playful or you re serious, and you can t be both.

They cautioned against generalizations and suggested instead a more modest approach to providing examples of currently applied practices and interventions which practitioners and evaluations suggested were good and or promising.