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At the beginning of the year I had a little spot in my heart that hoped I could earn my way back onto the Davis Cup team and show I can help this team.

At the back of the rotation, they're not looking for guys to go out and throw shutouts, they just want us to keep them in the game, ... I understand that, especially coming from Colorado, where keeping the team in the game was all we hoped for.

Dunbar had a great first half, scoring with a hand in her face. But we hoped she would wear out with Kingma on her in the second half. I think all our pressure paid off at the end of the game.

The results were what we hoped they'd been. All of the players did well. This was part of the learning process. Our goal was to continue to improve every match with the intention of getting better as the competition got tougher.

There's some worry that the economic growth won't be as strong as had been hoped and that's taking stocks lower, ... It's the combination of GDP not growing as fast as had been hoped, and the Dow Transports, which is a leading economic indicator, falling as well.

There's no doubt that Republican efforts to soften up Hillary Clinton in 2006 for 2008 haven't gone well. Anti-Clinton sentiment isn't raising the money that some had hoped for.

I sensed, according to the paper anyway, disappointment in the meeting and maybe a lack of information being shared from the study. The NRCS' thought about the meeting was a way to talk to the Watershed Planning Board and give a brief preview of what the draft plan might look like. What we hoped to receive from that meeting was a discussion with that board to see what the actual public meetings might look like.

I skied the way I hoped would reflect a positive objective. There's a discrepancy there. There's a moment of confusion and disappointment, but my objective criteria was satisfied.

I sincerely hoped to achieve my objectives without harming innocent civilians.

It was a little bit unsatisfactory, a bit less than I'd hoped for.

These results are generally depressing and send some ominous signals. They suggest that the hoped for recovery has stalled and that manufacturing is on the brink of slipping back into decline, pushed by the strength of sterling.

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

Thanks for the eight years, Charlottesville. It was everything we hoped for and more.

Right now we're right where I hoped we were going to be when I made my decision. But I feel like this has been the best time of my life, these last four or five years, and Wednesday is kind of the culmination.

Pretty deflating. It was a tough start obviously, not what we had hoped and planned for.

Ralph is not only a man of accomplishment, but a man of integrity. Those of us who knew and loved Bob are confident that Ralph is just the kind of artist that he hoped would one day take the stage.

Our defense still isn't anywhere near where I hoped it would be at this point. That needs to get better.

Our customers expect our applications to always be available. High availability isn't good enough; it has to be on 100 percent of the time. The experience with developing our HMV Digital service has been excellent. We developed the product in record time using Visual Studio 2005, and SQL Server 2005 has done exactly what we hoped it would in providing continuous availability.

Originally it was going to be $2.6 million. We hoped to break ground last fall. We're now thinking it will be about $2.75 million. We've raised slightly over $2.4 million from contributions and private benefactors.

Offensively, I think we hoped for a little more out of Jeremy and I know he expected a lot more from himself. Defensively, he gave us more than we expected. He's going to get better at the plate, but he showed us he can play the heck out of center field.

Of course we hoped for a better result, ... we're the strongest political power in the country.

The Nasdaq is very unstable and we are tagging along with it. Everyone had hoped that the market would do well because of the rate cut and yesterday's fall.

The much hoped for mid-October pickup in personal computer demand has failed to materialize, which suggests to us Intel's guidance on its Tuesday afternoon conference call will be more cautious than most investors anticipate.

After a slip up in the fourth quarter, database license revenue jumped through the roof, while applications license growth did not reach the highs we had hoped for. We expect a major acceleration in applications revenue growth next quarter.

After leaving Tennis Australia, I hoped that I would be able to help another sport that I love and I feel privileged to be offered this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with golf, which I have been passionate about since I was young.

Some things didn't appear to be working out like we'd hoped and I told Mark we could sure use him.

Once we established that it was safe and did what we hoped it would do in normal healthy adults, then we move to our most vulnerable population, older adults and children.

Defensively we're still not where I hoped we would be, but part of that is due to injuries and part of that is due to the fact that we didn't press because of those injuries. I'm sure we'll be better a month from now.

(Cobb) was throwing three pitches for strikes, so I went up there sitting on the change-up. I just hoped he would throw it and he did and I made good contact.

Details and logistics still have to be finalized, but the commitment is there, and it is hoped that this sharing will serve as a template for a regular virus sharing mechanism for the future.

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.

Ashley has developed a defect known as a Gilmore?s Groin. This could account for the pain he suffers after he runs. Ashley will undergo surgical repair in the near future. It is hoped that this will enable him to return to cricket later this season.

As far away as we are, we are still very close to becoming a good team. When we decided to break this team down last year, letting Antoine (Walker) and Gary (Payton) go, we understood what that would mean. We still hoped to make the playoffs and that's disappointing, but I think this team will be better sooner rather than later.

as good a partner as anyone would have hoped for.

Arthur Miller had hoped it would premiere in London and was so pleased the possibility was in the air that it would come to the Old Vic because he loved this theater. We want to see that particular dream of Miller's come true.

The bulls basically hoped for a number showing housing is eroding, and they didn't get it. I'm not surprised. As long as jobs are strong -- as long as interest rates are low -- this isn't going to change.

The Braves were very good to me, and I hoped to stay. But it's business. I hoped the Braves would match the offers.

That's what we hoped to do - jump out on them and then hang on. I guess it worked.

That's what we hoped these plans would do...It's another indication that shows we're heading in the right direction.

You see guys getting wide open out there. That will be the biggest test out there. We're going to have some rookies. They have ability but don't make mistakes because if you make mistakes there, you get hurt bad. We've accomplished what we hoped to accomplish at this time. We still have a long way to go, though.

This is certainly not the outcome that we had hoped for and prayed for. So again our hearts and prayers go out to the families.

This is better than I even hoped for.

This is disappointing news for patients and for us at Bayer. We had hoped that this agent would be a significant advance in the treatment of these diseases.

This is a total smoke-free bill, not a compromise that would balance the various interests I had hoped for.

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

This is something you hoped you wouldn't have to do, but it's one of those realities in sport and in life. It's not a pleasant situation, but it's here and it's real. This is a major blow. There's a lot to play for, knowing that he's with us and he gave us all he had all the time. We'll play for him, play for us, and play for everybody like we've been doing.

This is something I had hoped would happen. I guess I felt we had a feeling it could happen because we did a lot of test marketing before it came out, so we had a good sense that the game would be liked by a lot of people.

This isn't what we had hoped for. We're hoping to come back and play a lot better than what did toward the end of last week. Hopefully we can get back on the right track. There is still a long season ahead of us and we just need to come in every day expecting to compete and do everything we can to win ball games.

This isn't the way I hoped to get an opportunity, because we're all real close, ... I would have liked to be in there from the get-go. All I can ask for is a shot, no matter how you get it. This is my chance, and I really want to make good on it.

This is the best we could have hoped for.

This allows us to continue work on phase II and continue the stadium in a manner we all hoped we would be able to.

This is a day we hoped would never come. However, we are prepared for this event. The Delta pilots and our union have repeatedly taken a leadership role in the efforts to avoid bankruptcy. Unfortunately, Delta's plan to avoid bankruptcy was not successful. Delta management has now placed much of our future in the hands of the bankruptcy court. We will use all legal means to protect our contract.

They're starting to play the way we hoped they'd play all year. They're playing with confidence and getting things done.

They tore up his deal. I would have taken value at that time. I hoped they would have let me ride into the sunset as a Bengal, like Jonathan Ogden as a Raven.

They told me they hated to see me sitting on the bench and wasting away. I told them I thought I could play for them and that I hoped I'd get the opportunity.

They've been absolutely excellent and very productive as I hoped and expected ... we discussed a whole range of issues, ... I think we've been through all the issues that you would expect, plus some more. And I've found it a very, very useful meeting, indeed.

Although we had hoped that we could pursue meaningful discussions that could lead to increased value for your shareholders, we have been left with no choice but to present our offer directly to HBC shareholders,

A lot of people got bent out of shape thinking that we claimed to be the jewel of the east. What we hoped to do was become the jewel of the east. I think anybody who loves competition has to appreciate someone who is going to push the envelope a little bit in terms of competing.

They managed the campaign very well, getting the DVDs into the hands of the viewers, believing that the picture would sell itself. I thought that we had absolutely no shot at the Oscar, though I hoped that some of the actors would be remembered.

They have 13 flights a day and had 60 before the storm. They haven't come back as much as we hoped or expected.

They (doctors) warned us at the very beginning that there would be a lot of baby steps throughout the whole process. In essence, she has taken a lot of baby steps that, when you look at the whole picture, it has added up to huge steps. She has come so much further along than anyone hoped she would be at this point.

They do a great job executing the run. It's their bread and butter. We hoped that we could slow it down. I thought we did a pretty good job, I know they rushed for a lot. But I thought we were decently effective at slowing down the run. They're a great running football team.

They filed for bankruptcy some months ago, so this is something that is not completely unexpected, though we had hoped they would be able to work through their business issues and keep going.

The year 2006 is not going to be the year we had hoped it to be last year.

There was some skepticism: 'Oh, this show is funny, but does it fit on NBC?' ... Earl has done what I hoped it would do, and that's rare.

There were a lot of very good performances, but we expect good performances this time of the season. We were hoping that people were going to rise to the occasion, and it looks like they did just that. They performed very well against good competition, which is exactly what we hoped for.

There were a lot of people who thought we'd never get to this day. There were a lot of people who hoped we'd never get to this day.

This is what we had hoped for when multiplexes were created. This is in response to audience demand for more diverse choices.

This is what I had hoped for all along, for the two private parties to come to an agreement on their own without Congress having to do it for them, ... not as tough as I would like.

This is totally new, totally unexpected. This is the type of unscripted event in our nearby universe that we hoped Swift could catch.

This is the worst-case scenario of what we hoped wouldn't happen.

As soon as he went down I prayed for him and hoped for all of the best for him. I was watching it. It's always kind of sickening to see that happen but I know that Carson is a strong guy. He went through five years at SC with some ups and downs but he came out on top.

As much as we had hoped that our reseller checks would have been more encouraging, the fact is simply that demand continues to remain weak, with no imminent rebound,

Absolutely. He's done an outstanding job in practice and he finishes every play. He has done everything that anybody could ask of a player. If you asked me, give me the top five guys that are the best practice players, he would be one of them. If Jason Taylor had played in a 3-4 system somewhere, he would have been a Hall of Fame outside linebacker. He's smart and he's got great instincts to learn things, better than I ever hoped for.

According to Prince Bandar, the Saudis hoped to fine-tune oil prices over 10 months to prime the economy for 2004. What was key, Bandar knew, were the economic conditions before a presidential election, not at the moment of the election.

It's kind of a blur. I hoped we could maybe play it over. Maybe I could back into her, push her down -- I don't know -- do something different.

It's exceeded my expectations, in every way, really. The people are nicer than I imagined they could have been. They were more supportive of me than I hoped they would be.

It's exciting to me, ... Obviously, my experience last year was not one I would have hoped it would have been.

It's as good as we could have hoped for. A two-point lead is fantastic.

It's a sad time right now. But I don't know every detail and what's going on behind closed doors. So it's tough. I hoped it would get worked out in a positive way, and people could sit down with cool heads and get things worked out. That's what I'm definitely still hoping for.

It's as optimal a situation as we could have hoped for here.

It's a situation that we hoped would come a lot faster than it did and it didn't come along as fast as we thought it would come along. I think it's been new people in a new system, not being able to make the strides that they would have liked to make or I would have liked to see them make. That kind of sums it ups.

It was certainly a good quarter, way better than expectations, but futures orders were less than we had hoped for. With that said, I don't think the model is broken.

It was closer than I hoped for, but you are wrestling a returning state champ. You have to give credit ? (Paddock) wrestled to win.

It was fun to have Pavel besides me. Somewhere in the back of my head I always thought he was going to come back; I kind of knew that he wanted to be back, so I just hoped it would be possible.

It was the Cabbage Patch doll and Tickle Me Elmo of its time -- the thing you really hoped would be under the tree when you got up Christmas morning.

It was the best news I could have hoped for. Receiving the Fulbright-Hays has allowed me to pursue a career in anthropology and experience things most people never have a chance to.

It was really an amazing show. The rodeo, the music, the stock show everything went off as well as we hoped it would.

It was a very ambitious trip. I have to say, to my surprise, all of our ambitions were fulfilled. All of the musicians we were going down there to record with, we recorded with?I've edited about nine or 10 songs down from the trip, and the stuff is really, really unusual and special. It far exceeds what I hoped for in sort of the refined qualities of it. I thought it might just sort of be rough stuff out in the woods. But ? some of this stuff is just amazingly fine, fine stuff.

It was incredible. I strongly hoped to get to the podium. It was like being in a movie.

It's absolutely awesome. To do it earlier, and with more seats, is great. That's exactly what we'd hoped to do.

It is real exciting to see the guys coming around like they are. The got all the pre-season jitters out and they have just taken off the way I hoped they would.

It's a dream we've hoped for since the beginning of the year.

I told Kenny that Kevin brought it night in and night out. We just need Kenny Higgins to be Kenny Higgins. He has been all that we hoped for. He's a special player.

It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would develop into a smart, sophisticated, civilized alternative to commercial TV - not a cheap imitation of it.

It's a Knockout' presenter Hall, who currently appears on screens as part of an Earth Mortgages advertising campaign, said that he hoped to take in a Titans game.

'It's a Knockout' presenter Hall, who currently appears on screens as part of an Earth Mortgages advertising campaign, said that he hoped to take in a Titans game.

It is to be hoped that the peace will be a permanent one, although people here generally appear to think that it will not prove so.

It's not quite the crowd we had hoped for but everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.

It's not moving as fast as we'd hoped it would,