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Unfortunately, the debate over that advertisement has become a distraction from the serious discussion we hoped to have with the American public,

We were just wishing. Now, knock on wood, it looks like we have a pretty good player and that's just a big, big plus. ... It looks like it could turn out like we hoped it would.

We were just flat offensively. We weren't quick to the ball on loose balls in the first half. To me, we took a lot of shots that we kind of hoped would go in. We didn't really shoot them with confidence.

Today we initially hoped that stocks would rise and erase yesterday's losses, but Wall Street triggered a new wave of profit-taking.

Today we got everything we could have hoped for.

We didn't come out with as much intensity as I hoped we would tonight. We played a good team, but we can play better than we did tonight.

We're not where we hoped we'd be, but we've still got a lot of season left, ... We're not discouraged. We're disappointed that we haven't improved as we've gone thus far.

We're not seeing the returns that we had hoped to.

The overall result is less than we hoped but more than we expected.

We predicted and hoped for a race for the ages. And we got one that will never be forgotten by those who saw it.

We pounded the ball inside and took the ball to the basket. (We) hoped to get more consistency.

we actually had reporters who had a pretty good sense of where the information came from with '60 Minutes.' It was a source that we knew and we had been talking to that we hoped would shed light on things for us.

Tim (Hammond) was outstanding today. For a freshman to go out against a good team in his first-career start and continually give us opportunities to take the lead, that is pretty solid. Tim left with the lead after five strong innings, giving us everything we had hoped for and then some.

We do believe there has been some injury at this point to the brain. The fact that he is not waking up as we had hoped he would do, that would be the reason why.

We were all praying that it didn't have to happen. We were all kind of in denial. We just hoped it wouldn't happen so soon.

We believed or hoped that the tactic of a suicide bombing would not be exported. This is a new threat for us.

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

What I had hoped would happen, happened; it was a recognition that we weren't that far apart.

We knew we needed a guy in the middle of the (batting) order that could knock in 100, that happened. He delivered everything we hoped he would.

There are many, many instances where we've found that the cities that agreed to eminent domain use not only destroyed local businesses but the tax revenue that the local government had hoped to generate did not come to pass.

We, of course, had hoped for more years because of the children in the house.

We were rubbish for 44 minutes. The best thing that could happen to us was that we were booed off. I hoped and prayed that we would be otherwise we would have been kidding ourselves.

We were what I had hoped we would be, and that's a better systematic team. We have kids with some power, but we're going to rely on handling the ball and distributing the ball.

Typically, your pitching and defense are always a little bit more ahead than your offense early in the season, but I would have hoped for us to start hitting tonight. And when you see a kid of the capability of (Fairfield pitcher Doran Watt), it can be tough to get on track.

When I was elected CEO, I said I hoped to have the perseverance to stay long enough to get the job done and the wisdom not to remain too long, ... By the end of 2001, I will have been a part of the PepsiCo team for 30 terrific years. I'm sure it will be surprising to very few people that I now feel it is time to move on to creating a new chapter in my life.

We would have put up some soft pressure (defense) and would have hoped they'd take the sort of shot we ended up taking (at the end of the game) and taken our chances in overtime.

We would have hoped to play on Friday, but we didn't get to select that.

We would have hoped to have gone farther this year, but it didn't work out that way. Some people didn't think we would come this far, but we proved them wrong.

We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down.

We worried and we hoped constantly. We never gave up hope.

There has been a backlash against Sidney and frankly, it's amazing to us. He's our leading scorer, he's great in the community and he's there for the media after tough losses. This is not the season we've hoped for, but he has done everything asked of him. Both Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky have said they never faced the kind of pressures he has to deal with at age 18. This can be a cynical sports town and if Sidney wasn't doing his share, believe me, you'd have heard the stories from here, first.

We said going in that we hoped the scoring system would make for a competitive day. It did that. ... Maybe it's a fair system, who knows what's for sure fair and what isn't. ... But, based on the score, I would say it's a pretty fair system.

We're trying to evaluate the timing and the options now, but we're committed to making sure this does not come into effect. It's a sad day for the women of South Dakota. We had really hoped that the governor would weigh women's health as more important than politics.

We just weren't able to win enough games on the road to get to the 20-win mark to move ourselves up in the (OVC) standings where we hoped to be. On the other hand we did some very positive things, and I think our young people at times played in a manner that is really encouraging as it relates to the future.

We've come through. This is the revolution I'd hoped for all along.

You have Intel that reports tonight, so you saw a pretty decent run on the semis and that took technology with it early. But then you're seeing a little bit of profit-taking just in case that Intel number isn't quite as good as people hoped it would be.

We didn't get a signal at 8:30 p.m. We hoped we would.

Weather events are clearly unpredictable, but it is hoped that the 2004-05 experience, which was the worst storm period for the last nine years ... will not be repeated,

Yet the barely-moving polls and the lack of major gaffes or policy collapses has made it duller than I, for one, hoped it would be.

When you have a bad season, everything is possible. As a team we failed. It certainly wasn't what I hoped or wanted, but that's the way life is sometimes. I'm going to try to make myself better and this basketball team better.

When you go out like that at home, it hurts. I had hoped to see a lot more effort today.

While I had hoped every member of the executive board would have submitted a vote, I have spoken with a few teams during this process that said they were going to wait to find out what happens with certain claims filed before the National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor. We are confident that these claims are without merit and will be withdrawn or dismissed in the near future.

When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side and told me that all memory from that spot was dead. I thought to myself that I hoped that's where I kept 'The Orange Blossom Special.'

When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.

We wanted to get something out of the race and hoped he would have a good experience, ... It all came out for the best.

We'd certainly hoped not to see it in Africa.

The reason union members are doing this is Charlie Wilson has done more for workers as a state senator than anyone could have hoped for, and now we're helping him back.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

The good news is we got 30 free throws. We hoped to do that by using our height advantage and we did. The bad news is we made only 14.

We're thrilled. For us as an organization, it did exactly what we hoped it would do. It created awareness to the site and the types of programs we're going to have here.

We've been blessed because of the weather before. At least we got what we hoped for, at least four games against good competition.

We were excited when we were told and we hoped it wasn't another piece of the rumor mill. No one's been happy with the big cloud of doubt hanging over the resort and rumors flying around.

We had assumed or hoped for today to be so much more than yesterday. Isn't it strange how we do nothing and expect different outcomes.

We've had a nice holiday season, just not as nice a season as we've had in the past or as I'd hoped for.

We all knew what we were going over to do. We all hoped nobody would get hurt, but that illusion was popped early when we lost Sean Cooley.

The operation has proved more difficult than hoped but it is proceeding in a focused and orderly fashion.

The other facilities around the country have been fantastic. We couldn't have hoped for a better response. But we've been working with some of these people for decades, so it was not really surprising they would offer their assistance.

This was good effort tonight, but South Side is not Homestead, ... We're going to need this and more. This is something we've hoped for to be in this position. It's going to take our best on Thursday night. But I'll tell you what, I wouldn't bet against these Lady Eagles.

This team (Carthage) is a very good team. They haven't found their rhythm yet. You just hoped they wouldn't find it against us. I thought we did a good job of defending them and keeping them from that rhythm, we just had a letdown at the wrong time.

This was probably our most complete game since the Christmas tournament. Everything went the way we hoped it would.

This was a program enacted as part of a very high-profile, partisan controversy, ... And the other thing is, the benefit is not what people had hoped to see.

We got a check last week from a doctor in Oakland. He said he hoped that it would help in some way. It's kind of amazing.

We knew he could be mad. It wasn't like we didn't mow the lawn when we were supposed to. But we also hoped that since he taught us all of this and raised us to be good, maybe someday the light bulb will come on.

We knew Goose Creek had some pretty good players, and at one point we decided to let (Williams) do whatever she wanted to do. We just hoped she couldn't carry the team on her back. A kid that good is going to get what she deserves. She's young and is only going to get better.

We just kept saying this is exactly what we wanted and what we hoped for and dreamed for when I signed at Maryland. She's going to have a great career ahead of her.

We just hoped that someone would get it, would like what we could do.

You hoped it would be complicated. We're going to have some decisions to make, which is good.

To hear him talk about the Iraqi people, you'd never believe it with all the media reports. He truly loved helping the people, and he thought he was really helping. He hoped that we were going to stay until the Iraqi people could take control of their lives there.

With seasonal flu, the response rate in healthy young adults ranges from 60 to 90 percent. We all hoped for 70 percent with this vaccine, but it wasn't to be. The next step is to give a booster to those who failed to respond, which we're already doing. Earlier studies have shown a third shot often increases immunity dramatically.

This year hasn't been what we had hoped coming off last year. We're all frustrated. That's what happens when you're not going to contend. But the staff's attitude remains positive.

This year hasn't been what we had hoped coming off last year, ... We're all frustrated. That's what happens when you're not going to contend. But the staff's attitude remains positive.

What, ultimately, all of us hoped was that by making this a degree program, we would start churning out and educating emergency managers who had a broader perspective. Just, generally, professionalize the discipline.

What can I say? We hoped to get into the final ten, but we weren't quick enough. It's disappointing what we understand the challenge we face and we're not scared of it. We just need to get on with working to make the car go faster. From back here, it's going to be very difficult to get any points, but as usual, we will do the best we can.

We sort of shut the company down for three or four weeks so that, as a writing group, we could take a deep breath and have a little time to think and plan and get some new material working so that when we came back into production, we could come back into a much more normalized kind of production schedule, which I think we did. And I think the scripts are really good. So given the givens, I think it was as good of a transition as you could have hoped for.

We had terrific results, yet we're not firing on all cylinders. The one we're not firing on is our consumer business, which we saw good customer interaction and lower credit costs, but we also saw revenue growth was not where we hoped it would be.

When I started acting, I hoped I could make some kind of positive contribution to this world. When I get a letter from some kid in Nebraska saying that, prior to Han, nobody wanted to be his friend because Asians weren't cool if they weren't into martial arts - Now he's accepted and recognized as a human being. That's pretty awesome, right?

We felt Chris has kept well but he hasn't made the runs we had hoped for, ... He's had eight matches on tour without really contributing with the bat.

We figured that she had made two all-American teams, so we figured and we hoped she would make the Indiana All-Star team. That's good for the city, the Region and for Dee Dee.

We certainly have not done as much as we originally had hoped for.

We controlled our own destiny this year, and things didn't work out the way we had hoped for. We're coming down here with a good attitude.

We are upset Emile has got another ban. He has an impeccable record and we hoped it would have been taken into account.

We're going to weigh all of that public opinion. We had hoped all along the casino can be a good neighbor.

We're very disappointed that Pakistan has taken another turn away from democracy rather than as we had hoped a step towards democracy,

You have to realize that when I started to work on 'Aladdin', Disney Theatrical wasn't in existence. I suppose I had always hoped that 'Aladdin' would be somewhere on the runway.

To be honest, I would've hoped that he'd win 10 games. I've got to believe he'll get a couple more.

To be four games in at 3-1 is about as good as we could have hoped for.

This one's huge. Our confidence just keeps building and building. We beat two great teams that are ranked, and now we're where we hoped we'd be.

We did a good job on the big guy and kept him out of the game. We fronted and backed him and hoped they didn't hit the threes. If they hit the threes, we would have had to change the strategy.

We'd hoped to win it again. But it's usually between us and Cowden that whole time, so it was their turn.

We'd hoped to see a little more upside.

We didn't play as well as I had hoped we would. Last week and this week we made some mistakes that hurt us. We did work on getting some wide open shots in our spread offense. This game will help us on down the road.

We didn't have the start we hoped for. You want to win every game, and these guys (the Wings) are good. They go to the net hard and they're tough to beat.

We listed the names of all contributors, large and small, in the masthead of our debut issue. We hoped this inclusion would serve as a thank-you.

Brandon is a guy, when he's good, he's really good. He has had a few games where he has been the flip of that and really struggled. Fortunately for us, that was a long time ago. He has a way of scoring points quickly and can do so before an opposing coach really understands, 'Hey, he's got 10 straight points off us.' (Heath) is a better player this year. He is playing like we hoped he would play.

Best truly hoped to be here (to receive the prize himself) but as more weeks passed, the more we knew it would be impossible.

Everything unfolded the way we thought it would and the way we hoped it would. This was a home run. The Jim Dandy was the kind of performance that propelled Flower Alley to the next level.

Ben Moseley is concerned for the members of the churches involved, the people in those communities and the injured firefighters. It is hoped that this decision will help us move forward with efforts to resolve all of these matters in a way that will result in reconciliation and restoration.

(Blair) isn't revealing anything that people are hiding. We had always hoped we would only use the interest, and we have gone past that, and we are concerned. But we are being as aggressive ... in finding other funding sources.

everything you hoped to happen is happening. Algiers is alive and well and breathing.