| It was a lovely occasion and it is hoped to hold a similar event in the coming months. |
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| If Bush hoped his visit would dispel the image of the US as a warmongering bully, he was mistaken. |
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| Pre-Christian warriors hoped to meet a quick, short death, hopefully heroically in battle. |
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| Mr Brown's aides said it was hoped many of the jobs would go through natural wastage and voluntary redundancies. |
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| He said he hoped his views would be taken into account when a decision was made on what disciplinary action would be taken against the officer. |
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| With these books, her uncle hoped to quench her desire for adventure, but he only increased it. |
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| Cllr Pat Kilbane said the Committee faced a daunting task but he hoped some benefits would be accrued from their work. |
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| Those favouring an armistice hoped that a negative reply from Roosevelt would deprive their opponents of a valuable trump card. |
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| I kind of hoped that, as the box grew and plumped out, the line would appear to be less wavy. |
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| The agents did acknowledge the letter, saying that they would look into the matter and that they hoped to write again shortly. |
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| He said it was hoped the building could house community workspace, training rooms, local enterprise and a business start-up project. |
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| He felt it was the least he could do, and secretly hoped it would somehow salve his conscience. |
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| He passed my letter on to Inspector Read who hoped it would be the end of the matter. |
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| I'd hoped to put the vignette on the web when it was done, but it doesn't jibe at all with AuthorityJack. |
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| It is hoped, for the sake of millions of poor Filipinos, that he is not just putting on an act, good movie actor that he was. |
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| Even the Prime Minister got in on the act, telling the band that the country had never wanted them to come and hoped they would never come back. |
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| Why has the unfair dismissal and redundancy legislation not provided job security in the way that some had hoped? |
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| We are building up a loyal following now of people who come week in, week out to see us and that is what we had hoped for. |
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| They said they hoped to make the specialist worker's appointment a permanent one after the scale of the problem was laid bare by police figures. |
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| Plans to extend the fishery are well advanced and it is hoped to commence work in the next few weeks. |
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| He assumed that his best friend was in a cell very much like this one and hoped that he was well. |
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| It was 30 years too late but he was still alive and well and hoped to provide for his children. |
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| Pat is wished well and it is hoped his new venture will prove a great success. |
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| We were voting for captains today, and I really hoped people would put me up as a candidate. |
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| Japan's ambassador to Australia, Hideaki Ueda, said last week that he hoped that the IWC would soon allow a return to commercial whaling. |
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| He hoped to spoil the youngsters and watch them grow up to become adults he could be proud of. |
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| With the wind to their advantage the home-side supporters hoped Rangers would turn this game to their advantage. |
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| It is hoped to involve all age groups during the Advent and Christmas ceremonies. |
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| They had hoped to do their push along the road but were advised by police that it was too dangerous. |
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| It was hoped that he could be persuaded to wait on the committee in an advisory capacity. |
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| It was hoped that an alliance would be established wherein trust and respect would be shared. |
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| I can see I'm unlikely to get all the paintings done I'd hoped to, unless I really knock myself out. |
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| One of them, Lauren Gazzola, said she hoped her rap sheet and upcoming trial wouldn't keep her out of law school. |
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| I'd rather hoped that we would see the desert dunes of Maspalomas as part of our trek. |
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| I didn't care what happened to anyone and rather hoped at least someone would die a horrible death. |
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| Still, she did not want to humiliate her friend and, once it was over, she rather hoped it would never be like that again. |
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| He hoped money would be able to settle the problem because he really couldn't afford to be expelled in his last year. |
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| In time, he hoped to bring down the price of space travel to make it more affordable. |
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| Sidhe never regretted doing it, even if her afterlife had not been as wonderful as she had hoped. |
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| It is hoped an agreement will be reached that is satisfactory to most people but there will complaints and criticism. |
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| He just hoped that Faye would reply soon because the suspense was killing him. |
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| The cemetery has been kept in excellent condition over the past number of years and it is hoped that this will be the case again this year. |
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| Some leaks have been found and it is hoped to check the complete area in the coming weeks. |
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| It is hoped the child will be taking his first steps on his own in the coming weeks. |
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| I worthlessly hoped it was late enough that my dad would be asleep, so that he would not notice that I came in past curfew. |
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| It was hoped that this dark matter would be mostly in the form of small stars called red dwarfs. |
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| It is hoped the system, available airside in the airport's International Terminal, will appeal to business passengers who use the airport. |
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| Her knowing smile didn't give away the fact that she hoped one day he would see her as more than her brother's little sister. |
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| Most were poor, working-class males who hoped to return home to their families financially successful. |
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| I had hoped to demonstrate it by injection of the lacunal system, but the attempts were unsuccessful. |
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| But planning chiefs said they hoped the prominent listed red-brick building, also known as Foss Bridge House, would retain a link with its past. |
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| He said he hoped this gave them closure but they would always have one person missing. |
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| The table itself was yellow pine, a stern piece of furniture Rodgers had once hoped to extend with leaves and move into the dining room. |
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| It's hoped that it will reduce feelings of regret, remorse and guilt, which are all core to the experience of Post Traumatic Stress. |
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| It is hoped the clampdown will re-educate motorists about road safety and make them less likely to break the law in the future. |
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| I had to wait three hours for the next one and hoped no-one had cursed me for holding the flight up. |
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| Jackson will not have an official coaching role at the club but hoped his know-how could rub off on his team-mates. |
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| Terror Trax was a haven for what we hoped would be the next phase of alternative music. |
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| Mr Dymond said it was hoped to have displays by professional skaters and bikers with open competitions for all comers to take part in. |
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| The world-famous airshow, saved this year by a News Shopper-led consortium, will go ahead in 2004 as hoped. |
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| It is hoped that some of the employees already made redundant will be re-employed. |
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| It was redamancy. It was heaven. It was peace. It was more than he could have ever hoped for or wanted. |
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| He hoped they were laboring under that belief because there was something he had to get before he could leave town. |
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| She hoped no one noticed her bright cheeks as she attached the reed to her mouth piece. |
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| It is hoped such agreements will lead to lower levels of airborne traveling toxins. |
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| A number of the employees were made redundant but the receiver hoped to carry on with the remaining workforce until February. |
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| There will be a good variety of subject matter and it is hoped to have refreshments available in aid of charity. |
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| France, however, hoped to reassert control over Indo-China and reoccupied the main cities. |
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| It is hoped that the examples of missionaries who have died will encourage others to witness to the Faith in their vocation in life. |
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| As long as calm heads prevail, it can be reasonably hoped that tangible progress will be made in the future. |
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| The firm said it hoped many of the job losses would be through voluntary redundancy. |
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| The input from the communities has not been as strong as one would have hoped. |
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| If the plants perform as well as hoped, it could dramatically change agriculture. |
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| It is hoped to meet the County Manager with a view to furthering the project in the near future. |
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| It is hoped to hold an open meeting for parishioners in the near future with a view to setting up a branch in the town. |
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| He said he hoped his age would inspire both the young and old with interest in wrestling to get actively involved in helping to revive the sport. |
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| During major inquiries many police hours can be spent going through CCTV tapes and its hoped the system with save a great deal of time. |
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| He said the scheme was worthwhile and the county council still hoped to work with the parish council. |
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| He said he hoped the public would understand the intense pressure now faced by the authority and the reasons for reconsidering the scheme. |
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| Mr Haggarty said it was hoped to expand the room, which is located on the ground floor of the hotel, by about 4ft in width and 8ft in length. |
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| There, it was hoped, he would help rally French forces to the Allied cause in North Africa. |
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| This is the proposition that I hoped the government would deny, or at least remain agnostic about. |
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| The road goes through a number of impoverished regions, and it is hoped that construction works will breathe life into them. |
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| He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough. |
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| As the fall of 2002 approached, researchers hoped the cranes would fly south unassisted, while a new flock of whoopers trailed ultralights. |
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| I don't know exactly what my father hoped to accomplish by denying us this most basic of human kindnesses. |
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| Terror in the face of potentially false memories was one issue McNally hoped to study with abductees. |
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| The Abenakis and their colleagues were not quite as deferential to the governor as he had hoped. |
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| The man who had hoped to segue from comedy returned to the role he hated and the director he couldn't abide. |
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| The housing waiting list was still far too long and he hoped to see more schools completed on the new housing estates. |
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| I just hoped Luke, along with his designer moodiness, wasn't above actually driving there. |
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| It is hoped the latest clampdown will be particularly effective in tackling pupils who travel out of their own districts when absent from school. |
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| It is hoped the repairs and redecoration will be completed by May, well in time for the expected royal visit. |
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| However, it is hoped that the BBC will in time be able to expand its contribution. |
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| Ellen suppressed another shudder and gave a wan smile that she hoped he would take to mean the week would be a long one for her. |
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| It was hoped that a high tide might help the captain refloat the vessel. |
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| Nagase said he had also hoped to meet an elderly female resident in the area who had reportedly said her wartime lover, a Japanese soldier, had committed hara-kiri there. |
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| It is hoped that the bulk of the cuts will be reached through natural wastage, voluntary redundancies and outsourcing of contracts for activities like cleaning and catering. |
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| I included a cover note, something about how I hoped the message would be helpful to him. |
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| They had hoped to establish a second hive on the allotment as their colony grew, but now say there is no way they will keep bees where they are clearly at risk. |
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| Pleased they had got an increase in the white fish quota, he hoped the quota drop in blue whiting and horse mackerel could be made up in some way. |
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| Three strong contenders each hoped to dethrone the Senate majority leader, the ultimate Washington insider. |
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| The group hoped the assassination of the new President would destabilize the government. |
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| The Christmas Cards featuring Faha Church are now available from Nellie Casey and it is hoped that families will buy lots and send them winging their way around the world. |
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| Nationwide, it is hoped the scheme will boost the habitats of species such as the grey partridge, twite, natterjack toad, sandbowl snail and lesser silver water beetle. |
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| Initially I'd hoped to showcase classic examples of an action game, an adventure game, and a strategy game, but at this stage I'll settle for anything I can install! |
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| Well, you know, they had hoped to recalibrate their message this week. |
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| It is to be hoped that any subsequent revision will address these lacunae. |
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| I hoped I wouldn't look underdressed in my jumper and jeans. |
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| In addition, it is hoped that non-human adenovirus will be safer than adenovirus. |
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| But Mr Halloways claimed the majority of residents did want the scheme to go ahead and it was hoped they would be able to allay the fears of the rest. |
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| He hoped also to be a chaplain through his local church, and he was nearing the end of his formal training. |
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| But, in the end, it seems the two were unable to break as cleanly as they had hoped. |
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| As the fight began, charr still apparently hoped to capitalize on the age difference. |
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| The Stalwarts hoped to swarm the convention and force a challenge to the delegate roll. |
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| He hoped the venture would help generate tourism as the society planned to invite groups adroit in the ancient art of change-bell ringing to the Barbon church. |
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| We hoped that poor Anson had been atomized in the explosion, or else quickly immolated in morning sun. |
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| His disturbing images are what despairing victims and survivors in Liberia hoped the world would see. |
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| She hoped to become a professor of Dari or perhaps even literature one day. |
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| It is hoped that the difficulty of finding these recordings in stores does not have an impact on the future recording and release of many more musicals. |
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| They had hoped the autopsy would show Brinsley had eaten something that would point them in the right direction. |
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| Let it be hoped that we can refrain from relapsing into the bad old habits once the dreaded epidemic is over, so a new Shanghai with a new outlook will emerge in the long run. |
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| We had rather hoped that you didn't expect anyone to believe that. |
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| Cordice was the son of a North Carolina doctor, but he had hoped to become an engineer and an aviator like Charles Lindbergh. |
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| Croft watched the sky redden and hoped the weather would continue to hold. |
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| Working with a sextant for two days, she figured out her bearings and rigged a sail to position herself in currents she hoped would take her to Hawaii. |
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| He was in a daze but had enough sense to lie low for a bit and so he registered at a seedy hotel in that part of town, where he hoped no-one would come looking for him. |
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| The company hoped for some sort of economic alchemy that would improve business. |
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| Sabahi hoped to inspire young voters, but they are conspicuously absent at the polls. |
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| As I hoped and expected, he could not do that and responded without a word of demurral or argument on the merits. |
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| He was always very afraid of death and would have hoped for a miracle. |
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| He said he hoped the families of those pensioners whose pensions had been taken from them would not have to take legal action to recover their money. |
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| She hated her sister's vanity and secretly hoped Lucas would reject her. |
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| I had hoped to ask Burrage that question, but what I heard instead was a click, followed by a dial tone. |
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| When foreign businesses come in they often destroy local competitors, quashing the ambitions of the small businessmen who had hoped to develop homegrown industry. |
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| The danger and naughtiness that the weekend allows for and that we all hoped he'd bring over to week nights? |
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| Police hoped the bugging operation would result in long custodial sentences for both police and journalists. |
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| It is over thirty years since the club was re-formed, and it is hoped former Presidents, Captains and people associated with the club will attend the function. |
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| The wearying and thankless life of a tour manager was not the life he had hoped for though, so in August 1988 he returned to Australia and found a flat in Melbourne. |
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| I hoped to park in the members' area but the attendant showed me the red card. |
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| By relocating the Waterfront Leisure Centre, it is hoped that this part of Woolwich will attract new development. |
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| The canal was completed just as the Long Depression was coming to an end, but it was never the commercial success its sponsors had hoped for. |
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| John James had hoped to practice law, and was articled as a clerk in London. |
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| Somerset Walpole, himself the son of an Anglican priest, hoped that his eldest son would follow him into the ministry. |
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| It is hoped this may help relieve some of the current traffic congestion that the valley suffers from during the busiest months. |
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| When the long-awaited moment arrived, Vista turned out to be in as sorry a state of semicompletion as Mr. Jobs could have hoped for. |
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| She hoped she had a sleepdriving problem, too, or else it would be a long walk back to her car, which could only be back at the Lotti. |
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| When the bill came, I got a side-glance at it, and hoped Rose would have to hock her sparklers to pay it. |
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| In other words, any Scottish supporter who had straw-clutchingly hoped for a fitness crisis in the All Blacks game has been disappointed. |
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| As she had hoped, the hiking boots looked more or less OK with this outfit, in a studenty sort of way. |
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| Rather, he hoped there was some legal trickeration he could deploy to get a retroactive water right filed and end-run the opposition. |
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| My unguided tour through the humanities would likely be unbalanced, but I hoped that this could be made up for by the sheer number of books read. |
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| It is hoped that future engine designs will incorporate a zero chill feature. |
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| After therapy and at the adz vice of a close friend, he decided to write a story that he hoped would free him. |
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| Yeats hoped that the mystical system revealed in A Vision would influence more than his own poetry. |
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| Before he had been kicked out of the Navy, he had hoped to be a radioman and had attempted to learn Morse code. |
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| Matthew Ramage now hoped to become a mentor to help other drug users as he conquered his addiction to the drug. |
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| West Lothian Council said they hoped to rebury former miner John's remains as soon as possible. |
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| It was hoped that the two banks could be merged and recapitalized with funds gathered by their own board. |
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| He hoped it made him look like a coyote hunter, out for bounties. |
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| Webster hoped to standardize American speech, since Americans in different parts of the country used different languages. |
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| Her parents hoped that boarding school might civilize her some. |
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| Her parents hoped a daily dose of hard work would keep her out of trouble. |
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| I had hoped to help my neighbors, but they regarded me as an interloper. |
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| After winning in the lower court, the appellee hoped she would win again in the appeals court. |
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| I hardly knew what I hoped or expected, but I was all athrill with a nameless, inexplicable happiness. |
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| We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another. |
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| The man looked ill, and she hoped he didn't have that coughy flu that had been wiping out everyone at the office. |
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| The U.S. military had hoped to farm out the Bagram detainees to prisons run by Afghanistan and other nations. |
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| They hoped for an amicable solution, but both knew it would require some give and take. |
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| The ambitious young student hobnobbed with the faculty at the prestigious college he hoped to attend. |
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| Petraeus hoped they would succeed, and lent his support, but he was not holding his breath. |
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| Bede hoped to visit Ecgbert again in 734, but was too ill to make the journey. |
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| And I hoped that in youth the good path may be chosen By each little man who may chance wear these hosen. |
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| William may have hoped the English would surrender following his victory, but they did not. |
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| Henry hoped to take a similar approach to regaining control of Toulouse in southern France. |
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| The King seems to have hoped that this would help in the pacification of the region, and that it would give his son more financial independence. |
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| Edward hoped to capitalize on the victory by invading France and having himself crowned at Reims. |
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| Wolsey visited Rome, where he hoped to get the Pope's consent for an annulment. |
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| By means of this marriage, Henry VII hoped to break the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France. |
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| Both hoped for friendly relations in place of the wars of the previous decade. |
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| Henry now hoped to unite the crowns of England and Scotland by marrying his son Edward to James' successor, Mary. |
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| Many of those returned without having found their goal, or finding it much less valuable than was hoped. |
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| Charles hoped to unite the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland into a new single kingdom, fulfilling the dream of his father. |
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| But he was recaptured by Colonel Richard Ingoldsby, a regicide who hoped to win a pardon by handing Lambert over to the new regime. |
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| He hoped that the River Fleet would form a natural firebreak, making a stand with his firemen from the Fleet Bridge and down to the Thames. |
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| This arrangement changed during the reign of George III, who hoped to restore his own power by freeing himself from the great Whig magnates. |
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| In the summer of 1792, all of Paris was against the king, and hoped that the Assembly would depose the king, but the Assembly hesitated. |
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| The frantic fanaticism of this paragraph deprives us of all hope that Mr. Irving will, as we once fondly hoped, outgrow his juvenilities. |
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| Although the French had won, the Russian army had accepted, and withstood, the major battle Napoleon had hoped would be decisive. |
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| This, he hoped, would draw off the Royal Navy force under William Cornwallis defending the Western Approaches. |
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| Hood still hoped the city could be held if more reinforcements arrived, and sent Nelson to join a squadron operating off Cagliari. |
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| The new owners were more likely to vote Conservative, as Thatcher had hoped. |
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| In 2013, Bogdan repeated that no more money was available, but that he hoped to avoid the death spiral. |
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| Unfortunately, Savery's device proved much less successful than had been hoped. |
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| Yet it is to be hoped that, even in the latter point of view, the enterprise answered its purpose. |
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| All the reporters hoped to be the first to get the lowdown on the celebrity's marriage plans. |
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| It was hoped that this might provide clarity on the final resting place of the dead, but results were inconclusive. |
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| Henry may have hoped that Becket would continue to put the royal government first, rather than the church. |
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| At a time when many still hoped for reconciliation with Britain, Common Sense demonstrated to many the inevitability of separation. |
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| Although the poem brought him praise, it did not bring the material benefit he had hoped for. |
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| Coleridge accepted this, to the disappointment of Hazlitt who hoped to have him as a neighbour in Shropshire. |
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| For the first time, she and her son were financially independent, though the estate proved less valuable than they had hoped. |
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| Up to this point Wordsworth was known only for Lyrical Ballads, and he hoped that this new collection would cement his reputation. |
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| Anne hoped that the sea air would improve her health, as recommended by the doctor, and Charlotte finally agreed to go. |
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| Holloway apparently hoped that Trix would eventually marry the Holloway son. |
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| He hoped to become a pianist, but was prevented by neuritis in his right arm. |
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| It was therefore hoped that passage could be found through ice floes at favorable times of the year. |
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| According to Proteas captain Elsje Jordaan, it was hoped that the competition would create an opportunity for players to become professional. |
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| Haig and Robertson hoped that this would be the start of a new and more professional management of the war. |
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| At its launch, Salmond stated that he hoped one million people in Scotland would sign a declaration of support for independence. |
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| This led the EBU to create what was hoped would be a more permanent solution to the problem. |
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| In this way, it was hoped that a defensible new community composed entirely of loyal British subjects would be created. |
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| Nonetheless, they hoped that Jacobites would support their forces once they landed. |
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| Burgoyne's situation was desperate, but he now hoped that help from Howe's army in New York City might be on the way. |
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| Washington hoped to use this assistance to attack the British at New York and end the war. |
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| The German leadership hoped to end the war before significant US forces arrived. |
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| Himmler hoped it would eventually totally replace the existing police system. |
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| Downed pilots and aircrew, it was hoped, would be picked up by any boats or ships which happened to be passing by. |
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| On 28 May, Attlee sent a comprehensive list of assistance that it hoped that Australia would provide. |
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| Loyalists hoped the bombings would force O'Neill to resign and bring an end to any concessions to nationalists. |
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| In 2005 the President of the SRU said it was hoped eventually to establish a professional team in Aberdeen. |
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| With careful management, she hoped someday to turn her small business into a real moneymaker. |
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| Under pressure from Congress, the president hoped the visit would encourage the IRA to renounce violence. |
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| Although he had been instructed by George, Locke hoped to become chief engineer as his contract with Stephenson had expired. |
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| Napoleon hoped that isolating Britain from the Continent would end its economic dominance. |
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| State health officials said yesterday they hoped to get the C.D.C.s support in seeking the elimination of such multidose vials. |
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| Before the fall of the Tory government, Swift hoped that his services would be rewarded with a church appointment in England. |
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| It was a difficult birth, and his mother Elizabeth, who hoped for a girl, was uncomfortable even looking at him at first. |
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| They hoped that this document would be signed like a referendum so that it would become a written constitution for the Commonwealth of England. |
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| At this point, Marx moved from Paris to Brussels, where Marx hoped to once again continue his study of capitalism and political economy. |
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| De Valera hoped Wittgenstein's presence would contribute to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies which he was soon to set up. |
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| It is played in over 35 countries and it is hoped that it will become an Olympic sport soon. |
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| It was assumed or hoped that difficulties with the British would be resolved to allow the Council of Europe's Assembly to perform the task. |
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| He had given refuge to an exiled Irish king whom he hoped he might use as the excuse for conquest. |
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| She hoped the King would give her possessions to her daughter, Lady Margaret Douglas. |
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| They negotiated directly with Shelburne, who hoped to make Britain a valuable trading partner of America at the expense of France. |
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| Some more sympathetic landlords supplied a free passage to what was hoped to be a better life. |
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| The Canadian government hoped to develop the economy in the sparsely populated western part of the country. |
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| It is hoped that the redevelopment of the ground will start at end 2014 with the intention being to upgrade it to international match standards. |
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| Due to the collapse of Setanta in the UK in June 2009, Celtic TV stopped broadcasting, although the club hoped to find a new broadcast partner. |
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| In spring 1916, Milner hoped Lloyd George could be persuaded to bring down the coalition government by resigning, but this did not happen. |
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| Edward probably hoped that the marriage would strengthen his position in Gascony and bring him much needed funds. |
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| The rebel leaders hoped that by the end of September King Edward and most of his forces would be in France on a planned campaign. |
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| They hoped that the railway, which reached the towns between 1861 and 1863, would give them access to new markets. |
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| He doubtless hoped for a sympathetic ruling from President Reagan, at 70 no spring chicken himself. |
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| The NLO hoped to destroy all the sultanates and eventually unite with the Yemen Arab Republic. |
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| With this challenging and revolutionary policy Lewis hoped a significant number of Welshmen would refuse to join the British Army. |
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| It was moved onto a barge and rescuers hoped to take it out to sea, but it died following a convulsion on 21 January during its rescue. |
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| They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening, but hoped that word would spread. |
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| Christopher Awdry said that he had other material, which he hoped would be published. |
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| This plan was hoped to quickly gain victory against the French and allow German forces to concentrate on the Eastern Front. |
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| Adolf Hitler had hoped to conquer the country in just one day, but his forces met unexpectedly fierce resistance. |
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| John hoped to acquire Normandy, Anjou and the other lands in France held by Richard in exchange for allying himself with Philip. |
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| Adolf Hitler had hoped that France and Britain would acquiesce in the conquest of Poland and quickly make peace. |
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| Demolition parties sailed in the ships but it was hoped that supplies and equipment could be embarked as well as troops. |
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| Adolf Hitler hoped for a negotiated peace with the UK, and made no preparations for amphibious assault on Britain until the Fall of France. |
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| The Germans hoped the air action would force the British to negotiate, and make invasion unnecessary. |
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| It was debatable whether British ships were as vulnerable to enemy air attack as the Germans hoped. |
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| It is possible to speculate that he may have hoped to circumnavigate Europe, but the sources do not say. |
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| There is evidence pirates specifically hoped to find edibles in their loot over specie. |
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| The king hoped to extend his realm to Iceland, which he could do by a resolution of the Althing, of which Snorri had been a key member. |
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| However, there appears to be a consensus that taxi deregulation has been less impressive than advocates had hoped. |
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| Hary hoped to cash in from both, but Adi was so enraged he banned the Olympic champion. |
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| The French did not have the clear sea they hoped for the crossing, nor could they now spare the number of troops on the continent. |
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| The government had hoped that the reports would then be approved by Parliament and in place for the May 2015 general election. |
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| The trial judge said Sutcliffe was beyond redemption, and hoped he would never leave prison. |
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| It was hoped the comparison would expand understanding of Neanderthals, as well as the evolution of humans and human brains. |
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| As the river was navigable to their ships, they hoped to use it to access the tribes at its upper end. |
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| With such a scheme, Pliny probably hoped to engender enthusiasm among fellow landowners for such philanthropic ventures. |
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| Because of this, he hoped the sole threat of his armies might be enough to persuade the Germanics to surrender. |
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| The young graduate, Charles Darwin, had hoped to see the tropics before becoming a parson, and took this opportunity. |
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| It was hoped that Ma Fuxiang would have improved the situation, since Chinese Muslims were well known for opposition to smoking opium. |
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| Eanes hoped to return to favour in the following year, if the Prince would favour him with a second expedition. |
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| It is hoped that a new dam in Orugu, for which China committed financing in 2009, will alleviate water scarcity. |
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| J Kidd of the Wesleyan Missionary Society who hoped to undertake missionary work at Waterloo Bay. |
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| Alexander hoped that Louis XII's help would be more profitable to his house than that of Charles VIII had been. |
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| They hoped that the Federation would coalesce into a single, independent nation. |
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| He hoped to win the princess's heart by mixing the love potion the witch gave him into her drink. |
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| Initially, the missionaries hoped to create a large body of Amerindian priests, but this did not come to be. |
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| Halley also hoped that careful observations of magnetic deviations could provide a determination of longitude. |
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| Halley and others hoped that the pattern of deviation, if consistent, could be used to determine longitude. |
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| Second, he hoped to establish an English presence in the Southern Hemisphere that could compete with that of the Spanish. |
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| Manco Inca hoped to use the disagreement between Almagro and Pizarro to his advantage and attempted the recapture of Cuzco starting in Feb. |
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| Frederick Henry hoped to achieve a quick result, but Friesland, Groningen and Zeeland opposed the talks outright, while divided Holland dithered. |
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| Napoleon hoped that by making Antwerp's harbour the finest in Europe he would be able to counter the Port of London and hamper British growth. |
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| It took years longer than proponents had hoped, but wireless data is ready for prime time. |
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| It was, after all, a hoped for source of the income that was needed to support them. |
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| He had no prior nautical or navigational experience and it was hoped he would transition into naval life with the same aplomb he showed on land. |
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| In this way the English hoped to head off expansion in the region by the Dutch, at the time their major rival. |
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| The Cossack National Movement of Liberation hoped to gain an independent Cossack state, to be called Cossackia, after the war. |
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| In addition, Henry had to confront a growing Protestant movement at home, which he hoped to crush. |
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| Some also preserve an optative mood that describes events that are wished for or hoped for but not factual. |
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| James, the Duke of York, headed the Royal African Company and hoped to seize the possessions of the Dutch West India Company. |
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| This is because the GATT was meant to be a temporary fix to trade issues, and the founders hoped for something more concrete. |
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| The ABA desired to demonstrate that the legal profession could regulate itself and hoped to prevent direct federal regulation of the profession. |
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| Asquith hoped to act as a mediator between members of his cabinet as they pushed Liberal legislation through Parliament. |
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| The warden hoped to recapture the escaped prisoners before they reached the town. |
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| While the cotton gin did not earn Whitney the fortune he had hoped for, it did give him fame. |
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| The group will continue to grow from strength to strength and it is hoped that this will encourage other women to get involved in refereeing. |
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