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He said he hoped for strong sales for the Volt.

It was a week in which some of the change that generations have hoped for and worked for finally became reality in America.

Then he did what I had hoped for . He took another long drink of wine and said , 'Let's double the stakes .

the break of continuity between her earlier and present existence, which she had hoped for, had not, after all, taken place.

that were it a girl she should be known as Jasmine, but all she hoped for was to be delivered of a healthy baby.

So far, the switch to the new school has been going better than I could ever have hoped for.

Choosing such a tide, I hoped for a glimpse of the pool. The EBB was to fall early in the morning.

The DPJ won just 44 seats, ten less than it had hoped for and well short of a majority, even in league with its small coalition partner.

More might have been hoped for from a coalition with a big majority and a strong economy.

If I were Kate, I might have hoped for something with a little bit less bad juju.

Moreover, some parties have not got what they had hoped for out of the project, notably Japan, which had wanted to host the reactor.

Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.

Governor Schwarzenegger spoke with reporters after touring Malibu Monday, and said he hoped for a change in the weather.

The captain spoke few words, but agreed that the crew were better than he'd hoped for , and that the ship was a fine one.

Mr. Obama also said he hoped for an agreement on ways to reduce the U. S. debt and budget deficit, which are at record highs.

This was what he had hoped for: chaos. He'd happily exchange fire at this range when he had a scope, cover, and a superior angle.

Though rain does not always fall when it is most hoped for, war always comes, whether one wants it or not.

As she finished and prepared to begin, Marissa hoped for any diversion.

Lawyers had hoped for a decision this week but by Friday there was no judgment.

I hope your birthday was all that you hoped for.

The meeting will achieve less than was once hoped for, and Mr Obama's hands, to be sure, are tied by domestic politics.

The long-hoped-for move of individual investors back into stocks was supposed to bring a wave of money off the sidelines.

Generally, speaking, the hoped-for soft landing seems to be on track.

What he had once hoped for the Flock, he now gained for himself alone; he learned to fly, and was not sorry for the price that he had paid.

Sometimes this gamble works, but in most cases you will not notice the concurrency improvement you might have hoped for.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Less clear is whether the games will pay the kind of political dividends that China had hoped for domestically and abroad.

"I'll remember, " promised Cinderella. "Oh, it's more than I ever hoped for! Thank you, fairy godmother. "

The best that can be hoped for is to keep abreast of the big developments in a few important fields.

China is building most of Africa's new dams out of its own pocket, with all sorts of hoped-for spin-offs.

The Roman admitted the result felt like a podium finish, because that was the best Renault could have hoped for.

Somehow the realization that nothing was to be hoped for had a salutary effect upon me.

It was their second infusion in recent months into the company after a hoped-for IPO faltered, spurring its need for cash.

Both the staff's cordial greeting and the charm of the hotel were all we'd hoped for.

DON'T MIND ME: Two teenagers ate fast food as birds hoped for a nibble during the heaviest snowfall of the year in Moscow on Monday.

Besides, thirty-five dollars in hand was more dependable than a hoped-for ten thousand, even though it was too little for risking his life.

Of course, if I got waxed, my long-hoped-for political career could be over before it began.

Cinderella: Oh, I understand, but. . . it's more than I ever hoped for.

Brazil had taken the gold medal in men's volleyball in Barcelona in 1992, and everyone hoped for a repeat of that performance.

Cinderella: I understand, but. . . it's more than I ever hoped for.

Lincoln hoped for an easy peace. He wanted no hangings or other brutal acts against the losers.

Oh, my God. . . more than I could have hoped for.

This time, I got more than I had hoped for.

On Monday, a spokesman for the foreign ministry said China respected "the choice of the Libyan people" and hoped for a return to stability.

Mr Cheng hoped for "peaceful reunification in the long term but . . . expects the two countries to remain separate in the short term" .

That may be less lucrative than it hoped for, but do not shed any tears for Cheng Yu-tung, the firm's billionaire boss.

The result of the exam is released this week and I couldn't have hoped for a better result.

Palestinian U. N. envoy Riyad Mansour told reporters that his government had hoped for a different outcome Friday, but is not giving up.

As for the bride, she had, she told friends jokingly, rather hoped for a small wedding.

In the 70s, fans hoped for a reunion, but the group decided to follow their own careers with different degrees of success.

Parslow had hoped for something between him and Teri but she was afraid of losing her family.

The election, a thrilled Mr Daley told The Economist soon afterwards, would help to bring Chicago the prominence it had always hoped for.

Indeed Mr Bernanke acknowledged that some of the demand that the Fed had hoped for later this year may have already come and gone.

And so in this new situation you will still not find what you hoped for since your mind is still seeping with that negative stuff.

In the American Civil War, the North hoped for a quick victory by capturing the southern capital at Richmond, Virginia.

At the very least it must declare and enforce a long-term ceasefire as a hoped-for prelude to a complete disavowal of violence.

They fell short of the 60 Senate seats they had hoped for, which would have allowed them to avoid procedural blocks known as filibusters .

Tacitly some adherents may have hoped for the regime's collapse. But it has neither reformed nor crumbled.

Lee hoped for a final, decisive blow that would bring the war to an end.

his wife's response was never what he'd hoped for.

Investors had hoped for solid growth in oil demand from China, but it has been weakening there, as well as in the US.

After nearly three weeks of anti-government protests in Egypt, "what we hoped for is what happened, " she said.

The IMF said on it hoped for a "positive resolution" in talks with European countries to ensure the Greek economic program is fully funded.

Their hoped-for prize: breeders willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a mate for their mastiff.

Perhaps the most that can be hoped for is to have high-order discontent in today's society, discontent about things that really matter.

She spoke to Ole and hoped for an answer, but Ole was silent and gave no sign of his presence.

It's no big secret that none of the traditional telecom services are generating the revenues we'd all hoped for.

As you progress, you will come across great surprises, and will often find more than you'd hoped for!

He hoped for companionship, financial stability and a maternal influence for his 11-year-old twin daughters.

Conservatives hoped FOR a rollback of left - wing support FOR the controversial new legislation.

Lower spending combined with a maturing industry will prevent a rebound hoped for by online travel professionals.

South Africa is not everything we would have hoped for, that's for sure.

If the king had hoped for peace, he was to be sadly disillusioned.

Membership of the party was compulsory for all teachers, doctors, engineers, officers or those who hoped for government service.

But those rallies generally fade, as it becomes clear that economic difficulties will persist for longer than many had hoped for.

That dream for him, had long been thwarted as he hoped for same within Europe in the days of Napoleon.

He no longer hoped for anything; this step he had taken since the preceding evening.

That hoped-for pick-up in demand may yet prove illusory.

Correct differentiation and appropriate treatment are the prerequisite for achieving the hoped-for results.

Perhaps you some vainly hoped for that the wish makes an extraordinary life.

As you can see, it is not exactly what you hoped for.

For Mr Straw, the result is a triumph, even if it was not exactly the one he hoped for.

This justified the continuation of the format of the IIM, which for them was the appropriate forum to achieve the progress they hoped for.

Mugabe and Tsvangirai also hoped for the early lifting of unfair sanctions on Zimbabwe by certain countries.

A solid financial return may be the best that can be hoped for -- no matter what kind of promises are being made.

The turn-out was better than trade union leaders had hoped for, and far higher than a previous day of action in June.

He was able to find the private equity job he'd hoped for. "I consider myself very lucky, " he says.

Over the next several years, by contrast, the best that can be hoped for is that GDP growth will remain roughly constant.

But they had hoped for an even lighter sentence , arguing the journalist's actions constituted an insult rather than an assault .

The socialists hoped for a turn of the tide, that public opinion might turn in their favour.

The original two-speed world was the cousin of another hoped-for mantra, global rebalancing.

When she decided to get pregnant again last year, she hoped for one baby, but was thrilled to have eight, her mother said.

But the reports continue, and things could get a lot worse if the hoped-for rainy season does not arrive next month.

Mass privatisation broke the planners' grip but failed to create the hoped-for shareholder democracy.

But whether the measure happens sooner or later, the hoped-for transformation of young people's skills may not materialise.

Realistically, it won't be until critical mass is achieved that the hoped for "choice of unity and cooperation" will be a viable one.

We had hoped for the best, but that's what I feel.

That this is probably both correct, and exactly what Mr Sarkozy hoped for, should raise a red flag.

It may be okay content, but it'll never be that insightful, well thought-out content you hoped for.

Diplomats said they hoped for a compromise, especially as Beijing had shown flexibility in April.

Yet it was a difficult task, and Thompson never quite achieved the results he hoped for.

"The market overall is showing signs of the recovery at the end of the year we had hoped for, " Ballew said.

The correspondents say Guineans had hoped for tougher sanctions and the embargo was the weakest measure ECOWAS could agree on.

We will be glad for you to serve very much, hoped for that your echo, hoped our cooperation can start from this.

But demand has been as strong as could be reasonably hoped for throughout the crisis, and imports have dropped noticeably.

Students who had hoped for a finance career are looking elsewhere -- or bracing themselves for short-term work at much lower pay.

There she hoped for a new start, according to her father, Guy, interviewed in Paris Match magazine this week.

That wipes out the hoped for non-proliferation gain, and may be a deal-breaker.

Aside from injuries, has the season gone better than you had hoped for or were you expecting more?

After spending many days in the heat and humidity of the rain forest, I was finally rewarded with the images I had hoped for.

The best that can be hoped for is that it does not weaken its collective security guarantee by discussing it to death.

But the Mac was not the swift, mass-market success that he had hoped for, and Mr Jobs was ousted from Apple by its board in 1985.

The king's constitutional initiative may lead to the institutional breakthrough many hoped for at the start of his reign in 1999.

The raise is smaller than I'd hoped for.

They had hoped for political reforms, maybe with a sprinkling of media freedom or human rights.

Yen weakness has been encouraged by the Japanese authorities and allowed exports to compensate for weaker than hoped for consumption.

In the post-Soviet economies the problem is that independence in 1991 did not bring the hoped-for western living standards.

I received a lower class average than I had hoped for, so I re-reviewed the Unit 1 material and re-issued both the 5A and 5B tests.

Hoped for a more tranquil life in the country.

But four months later, America's war is proving much harder and far slower than military commanders and their political masters hoped for.

The comfort blanket was useless and the policymakers simply experimented and hoped for the best.

He hoped for the best, hoped Saber and the others would be okay.

Their early arrival did not have the catalytic effect that was hoped for.

Proview hoped for more money but felt pressure to settle because it needs to pay debts, said a lawyer for the company, Xie Xianghui.

Separate research found that women rarely end up with the Prince Charming figure they had hoped for when they were young.

South Korea: The Foreign Ministry expressed "grave concern" and hoped for no further deterioration of the situation.

Mrs Merkel's hoped-for crescendo of trust could be interrupted in two ways.

It will look at the return on investment so far, the hoped-for gains and the neglected drawbacks of e-government.

I have to say it really was not the response we hoped for.

Yes, I am OK about what's going on at Fukushima, and everything is as close to under control there as could reasonably be hoped for.

But Kim Jong Il offered no hoped-for concessions Wednesday on nuclear arms and trade issues during a meeting with Russia's president.

Like many asthmatics, she has long hoped for a drug breakthrough that makes managing the condition easier.

But private-sector deals haven't proven to be the easy money some hoped for.

The economy has turned out weaker than the president expected, depriving him of hoped-for tax revenue.

Maybe you feel envious because someone else got the job you wanted. Or because someone else got the opportunity that you had hoped for.

At least 10, 000 people had answered his call to greet his hoped-for triumphal return.

TWO weeks later the hoped - for acceptance letter came. With a whoop of joy my son read the letter.

Even so, there is no shortage of them, with each having motives besides making a hoped-for return on their investment.

Analysts worry that, with consumers keeping a low profile, a hoped-for recovery in the second half may be unsustainable.

The Lakers' 96-83 victory over the Atlanta Hawks was just what they hoped for in their first game after the All-Star break.

Steptoe implanted the embryo into Lesley Brown's uterus and hoped for the best.

The long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain.

Scythe - Hope of a fruitful harvest of things hoped for.

The measures have restricted price increases but have not produced the drop in prices that some officials had hoped for.

Perhaps the best that can be hoped for is a rapid shift from antithesis to Hegelian synthesis.

It was not the reunion mom and dad had hoped for.

Now faith is the substantiation of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

It also sets a shorter time limit for filing grievances, and requires less external oversight than hoped for.

But conditions deteriorated when the hoped-for rains failed, leaving the country's hydroelectric power plants without water.

They hoped for an early opening of negotiations on these issues, as soon as technically and juridically possible.

And he hoped for a second chance.

A slow and stumbling recovery seemed the best that could be hoped for.

The best that can be hoped for in Copenhagen next month, it is suggested, is a voluntary deal to cut emissions.

In 1968, President Johnson ordered a halt to all U-S bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations.

Opening day has not dawned with the clear skies that everyone hoped for.

The investors hoped for a twenty percent return on the new stock.

He hoped for a sight of the old, familiar faces.

Now the government's attention has turned back to its long-hoped-for EU membership.

Decoding the human genome has also not yet led to the wave of new medicines originally hoped for.

I should say I had hoped for a more heated discussion.

Intellectuals in Taiwan have always hoped for a consensus on a long timetable because by then democracy may have arrived in China itself.

Investors had hoped for more quantitative easing to loosen monetary policy further.

Serco may not have done quite the job some hoped for (the council will resume control this summer), but exam results are improving.

If it achieved the hoped-for goals.

We had hoped for the extension of the deadline to the end of the week.

He could scarcely have hoped for a better recruiting sergeant.

If the answers aren't exactly what you hoped for, take heart.

The result is that costs are soaring and the investment is not delivering the results that had been hoped for.

It still might, but the truth is that the hoped-for understanding has not come.

Instead of laying claim to the freedom and economic security they hoped for, they are preyed upon by traffickers and exploitative employers.

The money we hoped for was forthcoming.

It depends, and the developer who throws the question that draws out our demand is hoped for.

Perhaps the best that can be hoped for NATO's current operations is to weaken the militants sufficiently to bring them to the table.

The central heating system has proved less effective than originally hoped for.

The capacity of such DNA, RNA, protein systems to evolve is almost certainly much greater than the protocells hoped for above.

The attention and travel has been more than his parents could have ever hoped for.

Economists had hoped for an upward revision.

We did not have as strong package as we hoped for.

We then created more details for the model. We hoped for the final work to show extraordinary detail.

We can add to this the fact that if you can measure it, but don't, you are likely not to get the results you hoped for.

Man Yao has the sounds of nature voice, vainly hoped for that can stand in the stage sings heartily.

WESTERN governments could hardly have hoped for a better finale.

Those in the government who hoped for the best but feared otherwise are now prone to self-congratulation.

From the top we hoped for a wonderful view of the lakes and forests, but we could only see the mountain tops through the clouds.

And standing back has meanwhile not earned Mr Obama the political credit he hoped for.

Many a retired worker has hoped for a secure old age.

FINNVERA expressed its interests in the work of the SME working group and hoped for cooperative opportunities in the future.

They hoped for the best, but prepared for the worst.

All in all it was perfect. We wanted a little taste of luxury and got exactly what we hoped for.

Most had nevertheless hoped for clearer guidance.

Perhaps the hoped-for cost savings were simply not achievable.

But that was still not what had been hoped for.

If the content of today doesn't resemble your hoped-for future, you're probably fooling yourself.

The buzz among today's 200-plus test takers is about college admissions hurdles and hoped-for test scores.

The best that can be hoped for is a neutral policy from the Fed.

We hoped for the best result for us today, but it didn't happen.

The NYSE listing didn't generate the larger trading volumes its executives had hoped for .

A number of them had hoped for cash bonuses instead.

After the hard winter of 1622-1623, the Mayflower passengers planted seeds and hoped for a large crop.

This year's budget introduces a 10. 3 percent tax on legal services, without the exemption for arbitration that many had hoped for.

Let's be truthful here - how many times has your ad pulled the type of response that you had hoped for?

And hoped-for social change, too, such as the two Koreas marching under a unification flag.

Victoria married at 20, and as with so many young brides, the connubial life she got was not the one she'd hoped for.

Though Gerstein hoped for insight into biological networks, the study also suggests strategies for social and technological engineers.

Yet lately, my bedroom has hardly become the haven I hoped for.

Now, when that long-hoped-for peace and quiet once again fell, but the hearts of Dousheng emotion.

it's not what I hoped for.

So this was a good start for the first race and we have achieved what we had hoped for.

Same fight we could do I hoped, for the genuine justice.

The refugees earnestly hoped for the day when they could return to their homeland.

As a result the hoped-for fee war ahead of ECA has not materialised.

In such places, perhaps the best that can be hoped for is that conscientious policing will rein in the worst excesses.

Some also hoped for a better camera, new user interface innovations and other iGoodies.

He hoped for a secure old age.

Both Chrysler and Ford have gotten fewer takers than they had hoped for their buyout packages.

This is the emergence of the hoped for "golden era" predicted by many who preceded Lilliya and Nomi or their organization.

The 0-0 draw is a good result, even if we had hoped for a draw with a goal.

It is the best outcome they could have hoped for.

"This is unlikely to be the hoped-for soft landing. "

But Abdl Khadr's hoped-for new Libya has one advantage.

I am loved by six of the most wonderful children I could ever have hoped for.

Because every time you hoped for something , I couldn't deliver, it hurt.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here, we should dance.

One conforms because of a promised or hoped-for reward.

A hoped-for period of joy, serenity, prosperity, and justice.

Vainly hoped for when can realize ?

The results were just what the researchers hoped for.

But once there, the warehousing job Joe hoped for didn't materialize5, Nancy and the kids were very homesick, and their funds melted away6.

So things may take longer than you hoped for.

Is that star delivers you, vainly hoped for the wing already grows in yours shoulder?

Then came the results we long hoped for.

And, like us, they hoped for peace and happiness in the end.

YetConstantine is frank about what he hoped for but didn't get.

Any mental picture you have in your mind is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Certainly, thanks the human who hoped for me, I am willing by the life biggest to repay her diligently!

That is why some neutrals hoped for a close result.

Not expected or hoped for.

Here each people all have a dream, hoped vainly hoped for soars!

Well, I have news, such as it is. It dismays me to say that very few of the People are awakening. We had hoped for many more.

He hoped for Mary to come.

Our hoped for destination is Eleuthera in the Bahamas. This island lies 76 degrees west of Greenwich and we are now at 46 degrees.

That may seem a long time to wait, and it will add to the list of disappointments for those who had hoped for immediate transformation.

I was worried after reading other reviews but as they dated back to last year we hoped for the best.

And all I hoped for.

We are each what the other hoped for.

I want to apologize to all the French people for not having given them the World Cup they hoped for.

It landed in Gatwick at 2. 10am, 20 minutes after the hoped-for arrival.

One who is conscious of the present also finds fulfilment and joy here and now rather than in some hoped-for future.

Uhhhh And I haven't been all that you could've hoped for

Hong Kong residents stayed in, hoarded staples, hoped for the best and waited for the worst.