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Our ultimate aim is to have a modern sports complex completed with lights so that the working members of the community will get a chance to get involved in sporting events. We are quite hopeful that our plans will become a reality before long.

Our 600 employees in Maine can breathe a sign of relief that this referendum is not going forward. We were always hopeful that the effort to impose a crippling new tax on Maine's bottled water companies would not gain sufficient public support.

that business has been in and is in a transition phase this year, and a real positive sign was that this quarter. Profits improved in Europe by 24 percent over the first quarter. That's the first step in the transition. We've got a management team that is coming together and we believe that by the fourth quarter, we'll be in very good shape to accelerate growth; and so right now we're very hopeful and positive and the transformation is on track.

My reaction is that I think it's great. I think it's a wonderful site and I'm hopeful that we'll be able to work something out to get back in there.

I was hopeful we'd be able to resolve this without the (Labor Relations Board).

I was hopeful to be here. I was counting on my fingers what four months was, and my doctor told me that would be really pushing it.

I was hopeful they would agree to a name change. I'm sure there will be lots of alumnae who are disappointed.

I was hopeful that we would be coming forward with a major package. But I have yet to even see one of the biggest proposals we discussed.

I was hopeful that they were going to take a stand and vote to make it official that they intend to eliminate (longevity pay) during the next budget cycle. Voting in favor of eliminating it today would have sent a strong message to the voters and they chose not to do it. I was glad that Joe Jaynes did take a stand and make a motion, but I was disappointed that there was no second.

I was hopeful going into second half. I thought maybe they were starting to get a little worn down. We were hopeful maybe their shots wouldn't go in and maybe they wouldn't rebound as well.

It doesn't look good for Jones. I'm hopeful we'll get over this. I think that's why we're having a tendency to not really push it, because I don't want him to have a reoccurrence and have him be out for the rest of the year.

It hasn't been a great year so far for Universal -- that's no surprise at this point. But the fourth quarter has a number of major releases that the studio is very hopeful about.

John Thomas says goodnight to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart

It is complex, but we are hopeful that we can work toward (a resolution). I hope that would be the goal of all interested parties.

I'm so excited to finally present our case to the jury, ... After three years preparing, I'm certainly ready and excited to present the case. I'm just hopeful we have 12 jurors with an open mind, and they seem pretty intelligent, so I feel like we're in good shape.

I'm still hopeful we'll keep a lot of the key people. I don't minimize the impact. I know it's going to be difficult.

Manufacturers are still miserable, and output will keep falling for some time, but they can now see light at the end of the tunnel, ... They are working off their excess inventory ... and are now hopeful of stronger orders by the year-end.

This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

The alternative would be that you're dealing with this thing all year long. A week she's good, a week she's bad, and back and forth. I'm hopeful that by keeping her out those two weeks that we got to the root of the problem and fixed it. But, again, we'll never know. We'll just keep our fingers crossed.

That's their choice. From my standpoint if I want to participate or not that's my choice too so I'm going to wait and see. I'm hopeful that the study will give everybody goals to achieve, ... I've seen many a plan for Downtown El Paso. The important ingredient is El Pasoans committed to investing in downtown, taking their money and investing it. I'm hopeful this study will give confidence to El Pasoans to invest in the heart of the city. There's a general consensus that the time is now.

That's the one thing we don't know. That's the big question right now is this something that gets prolonged into the end of February, the beginning of March. Right now, we're hopeful that it's not going to be that situation.

I was really pleased with my game today, I was hitting the ball really well. I think I'm playing good tennis at the moment, so I'm hopeful for the next matches.

Whoever the head coach is will obviously have some say in who his assistants are. I would be hopeful that they will be strongly considered and we will have something to say about that as well. They have done a lot of good work here. At this point they are still with us.

We continue to have ongoing dialogue with both representatives. We're always hopeful of reaching an agreement and not reaching a hearing. At the same time, in some cases, it's a necessary part of the process.

We continue to have discussions with San Jose city officials about the future of major league soccer returning to the Bay Area and are hopeful that this will continue to move forward.

We were very hopeful that we would verify there was an anti-cancer effect. We ended up showing no change in cancer or cancer death.

We are balanced, and we're hopeful our experience will help us out. But around the City, there are a number of teams playing well. But until somebody knocks them off, Arlington's the champ.

We are back, pretty much, to our regular squad and I am hopeful that we will return to our winning ways.

We can potentially get the computational power of 100 workstations on the size of a grain of sand. We'll do it in steps; I'm hopeful that we can do it in about a decade.

We do want Isaac to remain a Ram. We're still hopeful that we can get something done in the near future.

We're all hopeful we'll find an answer to the issues,

We're all hopeful that he can play and recover from this - for Alvin. He's worked hard, and he's a good basketball player and brings the type of attitude that you want to your team. I just this is one step in his comeback.

We're continuing to work with the government to move this forward and we're hopeful that there will be announcement in the near term.

We're certainly hopeful this will be an additional opportunity for pork shipments to Russia during the fall and winter. This would be a tremendous shot to the arm to the market during a time when we expect to have ample supplies.

We estimate it takes three to five minutes for that secondary screening. We're hopeful that will help reduce the lines overall.

We got back to the old Devils that everyone wanted to change in hockey. People said they didn't want these types of games anymore. Now we are doing it again, and I'm just hopeful we'll do it again when it counts.

We have strong information as to their clothing and we're hopeful that we will have the identification of at least one if not all six suspects in the near future.

We have still got a couple of things to iron out regarding personal terms. But we are hopeful that Ugo will be an Albion player very soon.

We are thrilled to see the number of schools offering legitimate services more than triple in the last year, and (we) remain hopeful that these partnerships will continue to flourish. At the same time, complacency looms as a constant threat to the tremendous progress we have made. As the landscape changes, so must the anti-piracy programs within the university community. There is much promise in the coming years, but our work is far from done.

We had lost some matches and needed to try something different. We were extremely hopeful and enthusiastic about the way he handled it. He just came to practice and worked really hard, to his credit. That's what a coach wants to see.

We have a good shot. Getting a title is a hopeful goal. Top-10 finishes shouldn't be a worry. A big thing is getting two or three, and the kids have shown they can do it.

You are hopeful and praying that there will be heavenly intervention, and that they will change their votes.

We've made a plea with him to not just be concerned but to move forward with conviction in opposing expanded gambling and we're hopeful that that will be the case.

We have had games like that where we haven't been sharp. I was hopeful that we were going to come out and play well. We pretty much got dominated all over the place.

We have had extremely productive discussions over the last two days and I am hopeful that we can wrap up, if not today, then at another meeting,

We were hopeful we'd get at least another 10 from the state. The people here were pleasantly surprised by the numbers the House added.

We were hopeful but surprised. We didn't want to be selfish, but it's been great.

We were hopeful because the word out was there was a possibility of taking five teams from our league. But, honestly, I told the team we probably had a 10 to 20 percent chance.

Trevor will be in tomorrow to have his cheekbone straightened but it won't be an operation. We're hopeful that he will be able to play in a mask.

You know, he's a very talented, skillful surgeon. He won awards for being the top plastic surgeon in Houston several years in a row. I?m hopeful he can get back to his life of helping other people.

You know, each day goes by, and you get a little more optimistic and a little more hopeful because you just see how it's reacting to everything, ... It's just day-to-day kinds of things. So I feel good about it.

We've been having a dialogue since the beginning of January. We're hopeful it's going to get done. He's obviously a guy we'd like to keep in an Oriole uniform for a number of years.

We can be hopeful that we have a game on Wednesday so that we can go out and play again. We have eight more games to go. We don't want to go out like this.

We can assure them that by Wednesday, they will have a place to stay. We're hopeful they'll be able to move into a travel trailer in St. Bernard Parish.

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

We have an option over four years, but we are very hopeful because he is doing very well and he is a terrific lad.

We have not yet lost hope . . . and we are now hopeful that Pope Benedict XVI will respond to our appeal for his intervention with the Singapore Government,

We have not had anyone come to us to say we are going to have problems with access, ... We've actually received our first shipment. We are hopeful there won't be any problems this year and we can have a regular season of providing influenza immunization to the community.

We haven?t hit any stumbling blocks at all. We are hopeful the town will support us. We think we?re doing a good thing for the town.

We haven't heard, but we would hope that if he had intended to pull out of the Australian Open, he would have made the announcement for both tournaments at the same time. We're hopeful that he'll recover in time.

We need the public's help in getting the word out to the victims that there is housing available for them. We are hopeful that churches and individuals will help. We feel this system can help cut through all the red tape and put those needing help and those offering help together.

Those changes failed to pass the legislature last year. We're hopeful they will pass this year, given our knowledge of the problems posed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

We are doing moderately well in the debate. I'm hopeful we will prevail, but you can never tell what will happen when get into the political process.

We don't have any reason to believe he's going to get to feeling any better this year. I'm only hopeful that he might have a chance to get it straightened out between this season and next season, but I don't know how that's going to turn out.

We're not too sure yet, that he'll have his first run today. I think the best way to put it is that we're hopeful he'll get up so we'll give him till the last minute and see how he goes.

We're not sitting here thinking there's going to be another property tax increase next year, ... I can tell you that now. I remain hopeful that this is the year in which the state will provide additional resources to the urban systems.

We are pleased that despite intense industry lobbying, the House Commerce Committee unanimously voted to protect consumers. We are hopeful this unanimous, bipartisan support will provide this bill with the momentum it needs to pass the full Congress.

We are not discussing alternatives because we are hopeful and confident we are going to get approval.

When we put all the trials together we were hopeful of validating a cancer-protective effect, but we ended up not finding any.

We probably have a little wiggle room on that March date, but not much. I'm still hopeful and I'm convinced (those who chair the House and Senate education committees) want to do this.

We have made a lot more deals after the winter meetings since I have been GM than at the winter meetings. We are still hopeful to be active in the pursuit of an outfielder. We'll keep grinding it out until we rectify that.

We didn't qualify too well. I'm very hopeful that we're just looking at fine-tuning. I'm pretty optimistic about Sunday.

We're kind of hopeful this will lead to discussions with others in his group in the Chicago area. He's one of the nicest gentlemen we've worked with. We're just very fortunate.

We are continuing to have discussions regarding a sale of the business and remain hopeful that a sale can be achieved that will see a leaner and more sustainable business emerging, based on fast turnaround, lower volume and higher margin business.

We are confident that the senators, once they see and hear this defense in this opening phase of the trial, will conclude that the articles do not justify or warrant conviction or removal from office. We remain hopeful that this matter can be resolved expeditiously and fairly.

Tom has had the stitches taken out of his foot injury and I am hopeful that he and Greg Blundell (ankle) will be fit for the trip. We are just lacking a bit of confidence at the moment and we need to be tighter defensively at the beginning of games.

We are looking for a sponsor to underwrite this and are hopeful there will be sufficient interest from one which will not interfere with the obligations we owe our present race sponsors.

We're excited about the news. We're hopeful it'll mean good things for the local economy which would indirectly effect the school district.

We're ever so hopeful that we'll get him back and get him going again.

The projects generated conversations between students of these different disciplines and led to things that they couldn't have created alone. And I'm hopeful that it changed a bit of their perspective on their own discipline.

We were all watching the Jen Blues 1,000-point watch all season and it was a big relief for her and the team that it happened tonight. We were hopeful it would happen tonight and I am very happy for her.

We were all really hopeful that she had a really good chance of cure. During remission, you get scans every three months. They follow you (with less frequent scans) for the rest of your life.

We worked hard the last couple years to try and help him recover from a gruesome ankle injury, develop consistency and mature on the field and off the field, and he's made tremendous progress. We're really proud of how far he came to have the year he had last year and we're hopeful he can build upon that and continue to grow into a better major league player. He'll be a big part of what we do going forward.

We are moving in the right direction. We're hopeful that we have this under control.

We are more hopeful about Nicky as we don't think his is as severe - 10 to 14 days with a small strain. He could possibly be available for Villa.

The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

I don't have any faith, but I have a lot of hope, and I have a lot of dreams of what we could do with our intelligence if we had the will and the leadership and the understanding of how we could take all of our intelligence and our resources and create a world for our kids that is hopeful.

The fact that this was the only significant veto left untouched yesterday shows the success of New York's energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. We're hopeful that we've now closed the chapter on this debate and that we can move forward with the legislature and the Governor on an ambitious agenda to build and strengthen clean energy efforts in New York.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced

Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?

When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.