Even though a high backlog of work remains, overall the picture is optimistic. |
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The trial is still in preliminary stages, but the project's scientists are optimistic. |
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Their interpretation of the attributional capacities of chimpanzees now seems to have been somewhat overly optimistic. |
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While the Spanish government is openly optimistic that the worst has passed, residents and environmentalists were not so sanguine. |
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They had precisely one shot on target, an optimistic punt from Hamed Namouchi from fully 40 yards. |
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The lack of scalability means that to achieve his optimistic economics one must jump from nothing to an incredibly large colony. |
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Other incompatibilists, hard determinists, have a less optimistic view, holding that determinism is true and that no persons have free will. |
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At the day's end they were back up and running and Austria's central bank remains optimistic that the schilling will disappear quickly. |
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In the end, the film's moderately optimistic stance is tempered with a standard commentary on war and the nature of human aggression. |
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As for a final round that he will start five shots to the bad, Monty was cautiously optimistic. |
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Creditor committees and managers of bankrupt companies often are too optimistic. |
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Woke up this morning and there was snow drifting a meter high out on the deck and in the garden, burying my optimistic seeds. |
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The match was far from perfect, and doctors were not optimistic about the chances of a successful transplant. |
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I'm glad that you have hope and an optimistic outlook because that's so important and will see you through. |
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Overall, the short to medium-term outlook for construction seems optimistic. |
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By philosophy and training, foresters are optimistic about our ability to manage timbered ecosystems with beneficial results. |
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Where we find ourselves now, however, is a brighter, more positive and optimistic place. |
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He could not put a timescale on the process, but added that the receivers were optimistic. |
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Reports from the three principal officers showed a positive year and were optimistic for the future. |
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Market sentiment seems to be relatively optimistic about the outlook for the US economy. |
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The world number five had begun the week in optimistic mood, talking of his desire to win more major titles after a disappointing 2001 season. |
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Whenever I was upset, I always turned to her, and she would talk to me in a calm, serene, optimistic manner, which always left me cheerful. |
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I am most happy with the fact that the general tone of your newspaper is moderate and very optimistic. |
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But Sarah's outlook remains optimistic and most importantly as balanced as it can be in the upside-down, topsy-turvy world of an actor. |
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We're definitely concerned, but hopeful and optimistic that everything finally will go along the right track. |
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I can find little to be optimistic about with cold melt water running through the rivers and stillwaters frozen once again in midweek. |
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We had been optimistic that track conditions might suit us during the race, but that did not happen. |
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There can be no better time to have a wildly optimistic outlook than at the birth of a new millennium. |
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It's safe to imagine that optimistic minds at Sun are hoping for an even larger share of the x86 market than their partner estimates indicate. |
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She adds that she is optimistic about the work she'll be able to achieve in Bulgaria. |
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Thorn's lyrics combine a gritty realism with a bitter sense of irony-yet remain deeply optimistic. |
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Another deft bit of prose, this one by Shakespeare, also captures the optimistic spirit of the season. |
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The state is optimistic that if people are faced with sink or swim, they will swim. |
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Olive is an ordinary but unconquerably optimistic girl with a fascination for beauty contests. |
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He seemed solid, unflappable, disciplined and optimistic, a man who would get off the canvas quickly if felled and resume with a smile. |
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They are closely followed by the Irish, while rural Slovenians, French and Italians are the least optimistic. |
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Despite slowing growth and a sluggish economy, processors remain optimistic about opportunities to boost cheese consumption. |
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Whereas alchemy attests to an optimistic future born of destruction, for Sebald there is no such certainty. |
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I'm sure the parent company is optimistic but this smells like the beginning of the end of Koo Koo Roo to me. |
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Nostalgia wears rose-tinted specs, but even the most optimistic filter can't block out the unremitting greyness of the Seventies. |
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I am not optimistic about the near-term futures of corporate governance and corporate reporting in America. |
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A few comments say our view of the new Alpha roadmap is either hopelessly optimistic, or unfairly negative. |
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I hope that there are more people in the world who have an optimistic view than a negative one. |
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A reading of 50 or above on the index means that business executives are more optimistic than negative. |
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Let us turn our youth around from negativism and hopelessness to a positive and optimistic attitude. |
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As a whole, the tone is a little more optimistic and upbeat than previous efforts. |
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Everett had used it a lot when he spoke and it sounded so optimistic and upbeat coming from him. |
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His speeches are upbeat and optimistic because this is the style of Michael Gove, a key Cameron adviser. |
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This optimistic move comes at a time when other hotels in the upmarket sector have been suffering losses. |
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A more optimistic picture reminds us of the pleasures of friendship, achievement, art, music, Socratic conversation, and discovery. |
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He added that he was optimistic that the TV station would reach a break-even point within the next four years. |
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Nowadays, after a glossy makeover, it is a symbol of a thriving European city, facing a bright, optimistic future. |
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Gilbert is cautiously optimistic that the acquisition will be earnings positive sooner rather than later. |
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Some are gushingly optimistic and others sourly skeptical, but most acknowledge that it is exciting to be an Indian today. |
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Pneumonia was prevalent, the bubonic plague was endemic, and doctors were little more than optimistic quacks. |
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It is no accident that libertarians tend to be buoyantly optimistic while conservatives are suffused with pessimism. |
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What looks like a rebuilding year on paper, is an optimistic one for team head coach Mike Renney. |
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This was the age when people were still optimistic of squaring the circle by a geometrical construction. |
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We noticed that the wind had changed to a strong cold northerly and quite frankly we were not very optimistic about our chances. |
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Despite these grounds for pessimism, I would choose to conclude on an optimistic note. |
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And it's nice to end on an optimistic note after the conversation you had with Andy. |
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So in some ways, farming ends the year on a more optimistic note than it began it. |
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Knott, therefore, ends his historical survey on a relatively optimistic note. |
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Well, if I can end on a reasonably optimistic note, you are aware now that the Independent Police Complaints Commission has begun its work. |
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But Stuttaford ends his own piece on an optimistic note, and I would add one of my own. |
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He did not sound optimistic about having Burdisso available to face Mexico after what looked like a knee injury. |
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Last year growth stagnated and only the most optimistic scenarios still predict growth this year. |
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As the group made its impromptu stop outside an off-license, any hopes of an early night were optimistic. |
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Although Moscow is still weighing its decision, both BP PLC and Russian oilmen are optimistic the Kremlin will endorse the Baku-Ceyhan project. |
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Even scientists optimistic about the future have hedged their predictions with warnings. |
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Nosko is optimistic that retail sales will experience an upsurge in the near future. |
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Mr Grant is optimistic that building works will begin at this location early next year. |
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I am guardedly optimistic that the president will nominate a strong conservative. |
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He was optimistic that the latest book would sell well judging by the sales of his last two books. |
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I wouldn't say I necessarily knew it was going to come but I was certainly optimistic that we could achieve something. |
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I'm optimistic that the future is going to turn out more successful than the past. |
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He remains optimistic that the players will perform better than they did last year. |
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He appears to be optimistic that stronger legislation can be enacted elsewhere. |
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Most people are not very optimistic that they can come to that kind of consensus. |
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Mentors encourage change by making others feel hopeful and optimistic about the future. |
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He was optimistic that the nation would reap medals at the event due to the massive talent and experience in the junior squad. |
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Rooke is optimistic that that kind of curiosity will result in people leaving the auction with a piece of fine art in their arms. |
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I'm optimistic that both those dates will be met and that we'll continue to move forward. |
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She admires her own daughter-in-law for opting not to work, and is optimistic that more women may follow Dr Laura's lead. |
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But David Shenk is not so optimistic that collectively our culture can slow down. |
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Many experts are cautiously optimistic that things will improve by the end of the year, although it could be a rollercoaster ride. |
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Unfortunately, my pharmacist is having trouble tracking this down, and I am not optimistic that he will succeed. |
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I still think the government will win, though perhaps my estimate of a majority above 20 is on the optimistic side. |
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European authorities view these estimates as being far too optimistic and want further belt tightening. |
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It is clear that my estimate for successfully overcoming the process problems was far too optimistic. |
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The most optimistic estimates predict less than half this number will actually turn out. |
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The film is cautiously optimistic in its portrayal of how intense love can transcend death. |
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Not until Malthus and Ricardo were Smith's optimistic assumptions seriously challenged. |
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The inevitable thoughts of his foolishness returned to him, no matter how optimistic he tried to be. |
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Iran's foreign minister says he's optimistic about tomorrow's sit-down with the State Department's third highest ranking diplomat William Burns. |
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Other health benefits historically ascribed to wine were unproven and mostly optimistic. |
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You can keep your optimistic outlook and make your work area as cheerful as possible. |
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The flock of chiders, complainers, carpers, cavilers, and castigators makes it harder and harder to get an optimistic note in edgewise. |
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Political honchos expect an upbeat and optimistic speech from President Thabo Mbeki at the opening of Parliament in Cape Town this morning. |
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Even the most optimistic supporter of this Italian team would struggle to argue their case in the Tour of Spain. |
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Opinion surveys naturally produce optimistic estimates, as do extrapolations of recent market returns. |
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Researchers are not optimistic about adopting aluminum body panels for mainstream cars. |
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In all the analysts are optimistic that 2003 could be a year of continued and sustained economic growth. |
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The Treasury report, in my view, is overly optimistic about the impact of tax rates on sustainable economic growth. |
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I'm optimistic that I can retrain my chronically contracted muscles and be able to work, run, and have freedom of movement. |
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I am optimistic that we can partner with these organizations to accomplish our goals. |
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But mountain climbing has never been for the faint of heart and, despite Mother Nature, the mood remains optimistic among the Richmond crew. |
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Ron was ebullient and optimistic, had a pawky sense of humour, and loved good food, wine, and entertaining. |
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Early hopes that pay-per-view television would provide a crock of gold proved to be over optimistic. |
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The rows have clouded an otherwise optimistic mood after seven days of tough talking by ministers from 180 nations. |
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She is one of those peppy, optimistic, chatterbox types that you can't get to shut up. |
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In the perennially optimistic world of Madison Avenue, few agencies want to be reminded of their limitations. |
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Protestors are optimistic they will triumph after a public inquiry into illegal practices by the Seattle-based coffee shop. |
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Your proposal is embarrassingly optimistic, like the product of a child's imagination. |
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This either means analysts were too optimistic in their expectations, or companies failed to live up to such demanding goals. |
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Despite his disdain for much about the town at the time, the rector was optimistic about the future. |
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It is a fair copy of the Declaration of Independence, one of three surviving copies penned by the optimistic visionary himself. |
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His squad is optimistic that things are getting better, or at least philosophical about attitudes taking time to change. |
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When we heard those stirring speeches at last spring's commencements, we left with optimistic determination that this was going to be our year. |
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Although an incurable enthusiast, Crampsey nevertheless cannot be optimistic about the future of football in Scotland. |
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Here was truly happy music, and happy pianism, bright and optimistic, sensitive to the detail of Beethoven's markings. |
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We can agree that the ship owner's action in inducing the optimistic belief was morally highly reprehensible. |
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A chart that is strong in fire will be optimistic, energetic and, as the name implies, fiery. |
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There was some damage to an internal wall, but we are optimistic that our office should not have to be demolished. |
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It may be a bit optimistic to talk about a play-off spot, but I think that is a reasonable target. |
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Those oldest old are optimistic, committed to something interesting, are actively mobile, and good copers with life. |
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Apparently it was talent, determination and an irrepressibly optimistic spirit that won this vivacious young woman the role. |
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Still, happy and optimistic, they poured a ceremonial splash of rum on the car's floorboard for good fortune, and lurched away. |
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Subsequently, the forcers are optimistic about this season and have bought a substantial number of bulbs. |
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Recently, the projections of many top forecasters have taken an optimistic turn. |
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The new administration appears to be looking forward, and we're cautiously optimistic about a positive tone for debate on environmental issues. |
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However, some remained optimistic that an international framework for cooperation on lunar exploration could be developed. |
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He is optimistic crowdfunding will provide a successful venture capital model for established businesses. |
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The forecast is optimistic because of the expansion of the company's operations, increasing the flight frequency and the launch of new routes. |
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Sarah always waltzed into the office as a breath of fresh air, smiling and optimistic. |
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I feel optimistic that Buy Nothing Day, and culture jamming in general, will become a force to be reckoned with. |
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I know it's early doors but I'm quite optimistic about our chances this season. |
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With the democratic steamroller gaining speed, even United Nations officials in Baghdad are increasingly optimistic. |
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He sat out the end of last season with a knee injury, and preseason reports on the knee aren't overly optimistic. |
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The early 1990s were a particularly optimistic time in light of everything going on in geopolitics. |
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Initially, the consultant proctologist at St. Margaret's Hospital was optimistic. |
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Although we have hesitated to stake our own success on prognostications for 2003, I am not optimistic on either of these two counts. |
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With these measures in place, we are optimistic that initiatives to control youth degeneration would begin to bear fruit. |
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On the second sowing date, simulated yields using these optimistic projections exceeded the yields using the current weather data. |
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The trustees present three projections, based on pessimistic, middle-of-the-road and optimistic economic assumptions, respectively. |
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In Britain, economic worries centred on the alarming prospect of pensions failing to deliver their optimistic promises. |
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These events function as pessimistic and prophetic metaphors, not optimistic of the future. |
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He was always cheerful, optimistic and remarkably good-tempered, and felt that life was to be enjoyed to the full. |
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Yet, despite the upheavals of the modern age, they bring the book to a close on an optimistic note. |
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She is aware of the threat of loss of place but remains determinedly optimistic. |
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In the case of Vietnam, the anchor began as a reliable mouthpiece for the optimistic scenarios purveyed by the Johnson administration. |
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Development economists once were optimistic that the nation's poor countries could grow rapidly. |
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The assessment by US intelligence officials and diplomats at the time of the massacre was optimistic. |
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However, we are not optimistic given the trends in current political discourse surrounding debate of issues such as the foreshore. |
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Six months later, no one has reeled the big boy in, but the gunslinger remains cautiously optimistic. |
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He has a far too exalted estimation of human reason and far too optimistic a view of human nature. |
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He may be less optimistic now, but Fukuyama retains an uncompromising belief in human exceptionality. |
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The actor is the essence of dogginess from the optimistic expectancy in his eyes to the bounce in his cavortings. |
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I am feeling optimistic about this election, but I don't see where everyone is getting the idea that it's a done deal. |
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He has far too exalted an estimation of human reason and far too optimistic a view of human nature. |
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He comes to represent dissidence, while the eternally optimistic object of his affection is the radiant face of national solidarity. |
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But Mr Chester was less optimistic about Euro-zone economies and said Germany is in danger of suffering a double-dip recession. |
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But, Sagan was also known for his optimistic search for extraterrestrial intelligence. |
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Carol Boozer, DSc, one of the researchers, says she is cautiously optimistic about the study's findings. |
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Corner forward Andrew Quinn is currently down with flu but his chances of making it for the final are much more optimistic. |
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And the next pages show the same downhill slide even under conditions of the most optimistic scenarios. |
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If we look at the ups and downs of life this way, through an optimistic lens, we endure much better in life. |
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Yet, as it is with all our official bodies, the authorities are optimistic. |
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Hartley has every right to be upbeat and optimistic about his life at the present time. |
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My life began in those optimistic years following the war to end all wars, when good times were to roll forever. |
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This version of the achingly optimistic Broadway standard is well worth whatever sleuthing may be required to track it down. |
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Throughout his discussion, he uses a different and darker language than the optimistic tones one hears from the avid acolytes of progress. |
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Old people think the world is going to wrack and ruin, the young are optimistic. |
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We're a long way from seeing these cuts put into action, but I'm cautiously optimistic. |
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I am optimistic because there is already a brisk commercial activity under free market conditions. |
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Such naivety was perhaps to be expected of a newly industrial America actuated by evangelical religion and optimistic crusades for social reform. |
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Supporters of globalism are optimistic that under the aegis of a single government, the world will experience peace. |
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There will be all the normal whinges and possibly a few boardroom rogues, but Scotland ought to be cautiously optimistic about the new year. |
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Modern Kantians usually concede that Kant was too optimistic about our ability always to see the right thing to do. |
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I am not especially optimistic about answering that question in the affirmative. |
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Its concluding afterword presents an optimistic vision of future developments. |
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I am optimistic that we have the tools to mount a reasonable contest against the midfield teams this year. |
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Only 24 hours later, few within the party itself could pretend to hold such an optimistic opinion on the future of their leader. |
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Although the waters are slowly receding the villagers are not optimistic about what they will find when they return home. |
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Despite the recessive market we face, we are optimistic that more business will be done than last year. |
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The Club is optimistic that a large proportion of the records have survived as they were stored in fire proof safes. |
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Despite recent riots in the Kurdish areas and signs of labour unrest, Batebi is not very optimistic that change will arrive soon. |
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Through it all, he is optimistic that he can succeed, not all at once, but over time. |
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The development is not a nostalgic repackaging of a lost urban history, but a thoughtful and optimistic experiment in contemporary urbanism. |
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She is not portrayed as angelic but as a believably good-natured and optimistic adolescent. |
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Social liberalism is an optimistic creed, which flourishes best in good times. |
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They reject classical liberalism's singularly optimistic view of international relations. |
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The narrative, like the author's life work, reflects a gregarious, optimistic American spirit. |
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Ultimately, it ended up exceeding the expectations of all but the most ridiculously optimistic. |
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With each team recording a win apiece so far this year the feeling is optimistic in both squads. |
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He appeals to the inner child and creative spark in all of us with his optimistic and humorous joie de vivre. |
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We were right to listen to the much louder optimistic voices in our own minds. |
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This film almost certainly paints a truer picture of day-to-day borstal life than the earlier film's rosily optimistic outlook. |
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She's got ash blond hair, hazel eyes, and this optimistic attitude that makes it easy for her to be everyone's favorite. |
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As of late June, many archaeologists in Iraq regarded that number as optimistic, with the suspected total running to twice or three times that. |
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A modern scientist, according to Grenz, assumes that knowledge is always good, and this assumption of goodness leads to an optimistic outlook. |
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This newly equipped force was to take the field between October 1944 and January 1945, but that proved too optimistic. |
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It may prove difficult to change people's way of life by eliminating the use of high-emission off-road equipment like snowmobiles and four-wheelers, but Irving is optimistic. |
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I tucked in, and with a sideways glance through the bare low hedge, pushed on and on and tried to be optimistic about a ten-degree ribbon of pink sky. |
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Being an optimistic bunny, I really hope that the mayor will come forward with a transport strategy that does not prioritise car drivers at the expense of everyone else. |
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Pledges for Geraldton's proposed community bank are flowing in and the working group behind the project remains optimistic the bank will become a reality. |
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But being the optimistic little bunny I am, I didn't let it get me down. |
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Sissoko's estimate of a two-hour walk turns out to be absurdly optimistic. |
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Against them Marcus's cosily optimistic values are defenceless, and he appears as a mythoclast in a world of myth, an exorcist surrounded by demons. |
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This uncertainty explains why the forecast, while optimistic, is highly variable. |
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But bearish effects of the US inventory data may be hurt as still scarce petrol supplies and a relatively optimistic global economic outlook encourage buying. |
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If you'd prefer to remain optimistic about this movie's potential to rise above literal-minded conformity to the source material, then I suggest you don't watch the trailer. |
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So while expectations are optimistic, any dates, at least for the time being, should be fungible and are not set in stone. |
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At the heart of an optimistic spirit is a hearty sense of humor. |
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Despite the apparent chasm between the parties, the Prime Minister's spokesman was optimistic that the governments would be able to square the circle. |
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He was always the one who looked on the bright side, the optimistic one. |
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To prove his point, the editor, a young, feckless fellow, asked me to write an upbeat, optimistic birthday column, saying how things had improved in the dale this past decade. |
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An optimistic estimate would probably be a couple of hundred pounds. |
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After that he is optimistic that the US and UK economies will pick up. |
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I am optimistic that the articles will serve as a heuristic, or learning tool, for teachers who want to become more effective in their classrooms through reflection. |
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Russell sets out to expose simplistic and overly optimistic views about the attainability of truth and rationality and he demonstrates effectively the need for caution. |
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According to some surveys, Nigeria is the happiest and most optimistic country in the world. |
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Others are less optimistic, saying that the downturn reflects loss of momentum in the mobile comms sector, and they suggest that things could get worse before they get better. |
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Haynes is optimistic the cash will help break the case, even though the police had no suspects as of Wednesday afternoon. |
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In general character, Hartberg recalls early Modernist hospitals and sanatoria, with an optimistic feeling of light and air and a promise of brisk efficiency. |
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George may very well have been justified in his optimistic estimate. |
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Such scepticism has been widely voiced in the public prints, and in our mailbag too, which expresses opinions ranging from the guardedly optimistic to the gloomy. |
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We expect this to continue into the next quarter and, barring any about turns in the world economy, we remain guardedly optimistic for the remainder of the year. |
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Partisans in Washington will smirk that these things are optimistic baloney and keep sending their troops off to battle. |
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All right, first of all, I've been reading your columns and you're strangely optimistic this year and that in and of itself can hex the Red Sox as we know. |
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The optimistic vision was presented at a council meeting last week, but some of its 43 measures were met with scepticism and labelled as over-optimistic. |
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According to one authenticator of sports memorabilia, his clients are not optimistic. |
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In the long run, I'm optimistic that, as mankind, we shall succeed in curing this problem of epidemic, or endemic decadence, which causes these cyclical behaviors in cultures. |
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You can be optimistic, but I'll tell you what, don't let your guard down. |
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The relationship between these optimistic and pessimistic strains can be seen, in diachronic terms, as a struggle for ideological dominance throughout the nineteenth century. |
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One of the reasons I'm so optimistic about the music business going forward is that the actual promotional cost center becomes a profit center in and of itself. |
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For all their differences and ambiguities, empires have shared in common a will to power that should make us skeptical of their most optimistic self-assessments. |
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The reason for this optimistic prognosis by the MRF, which for 11 years now has performed the role of balancer in the Parliament, is the results of this year's census. |
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Ed, however, remains bullishly optimistic, as this new series reveals. |
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Not even a daily reshuffling of his belief system that would give a less optimistic man cardiac arrest. |
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It should be remembered that many western intellectuals, including atheist freethinkers like Bertrand Russell, were originally very optimistic about the Soviet revolution. |
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The non-playing captain of the team Suresh Subramaniam was optimistic about our chances at the tournament which will also take place at the Green Path courts. |
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Either McInnes is in for the long haul or he is hopelessly optimistic to believe he can indulge in the cut and thrust of French banter by the time the season ends. |
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I love how blindly optimistic she manages to be, without turning into a caricature. |
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Those Afghans who remain behind bars in Pakistan are generally optimistic, according to a former Taliban cabinet minister. |
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Improbably yet convincingly, the film ends on an optimistic note. |
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But the book is also at times funny, bawdy, and optimistic, as is Lloyd herself. |
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The trim roadside lawns with shrubberies and annuals both here and on the approach to Cork give a most optimistic expectation of what the town has to offer. |
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A Federal Reserve report on economic conditions released Wednesday offered a cautiously optimistic outlook. |
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In fact, the scene was a rather optimistic one, centering on pride that Lonegan had outperformed initial expectations. |
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There are also spindle-backed chairs, bookcases with leather bound tomes and a wallchart with coloured bars of sticky paper showing optimistic staff rotas. |
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This adds an optimistic note to the story of architectural research. |
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American tweeters are optimistic, full of good will and ready to show you how to find yourself, solve your problems, guide you through life and share, share, share. |
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The debate was an unexpected twist for the rave community, which was finally feeling optimistic about the proposed bylaw amendments after years of waiting for them. |
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Rajinder is optimistic that India will gets its act together in Athens. |
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He then struck an optimistic note, saying his own life is proof that we have made great progress in matters of race. |
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To my contemporary ears, the plea sounds achingly, foolishly optimistic. |
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Sarkus is optimistic about the future of fluidized bed combustion as well. |
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It's a story of a free-spirited, independent, optimistic woman who finds that a huge inheritance leads into the blind alley of a loveless, cold marriage. |
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One of the professors of neuroscience and neurotechnology I worked with is very optimistic. |
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With his eye already on the future, and in particular on next year's World Cup, it was no surprise though to hear Woodward hit an optimistic note. |
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Depression is almost unknown to these individuals because they are all so optimistic and active that they have little time for self-pity or the blues. |
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It was also optimistic and in this way at least egalitarian, the moral sense and common sense being shared by all men and not merely the educated and well-born. |
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These are the rantings of a paranoid but briefly optimistic fan. |
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With faux courtesy, he politely suggested that Smith was being optimistic. |
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Backers of reform certainly hope so and believe it might have been too optimistic to expect change this year. |
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Bradfordians need to be more positive and optimistic about the future. |
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Today even optimistic analysts are calling for a continuing shake-out. |
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Still, wali is optimistic about the chances of reconciliation despite the deep divisions in the country. |
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For the moment, they are cautiously, superstitiously, optimistic. |
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It's an optimistic and hopeful prognostication of the future. |
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Today, liberal Protestantism is on the wane, and optimistic postmillennialism along with it. |
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Initially the pickets were very optimistic that the dispute could be resolved quickly in the face of the embarrassing exposure of the employer's dirty tricks. |
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This was a daring and optimistic bet on what in the context was a largely new form of governance, coming to life and being tested under conditions that were hardly propitious. |
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With refinancing activity booming, the optimistic sales forecasts make more sense. |
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It's with optimistic bravado that I approach yon quivering mountain. |
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Just as the first coming had an optimistic message for mankind at a moment of social turmoil, this coming is being presented as something with a similar message for womankind. |
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When the Ryder Cup was originally scheduled for last September, the Americans were red-hot favourites with even the most optimistic European golf fan. |
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Despite some optimistic noises about finding a buyer, saving it looks a forlorn hope and prospects for the remaining 300 workers and 1,750 pensioners look bleak. |
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But Sanchez is optimistic about his future, which is a good sign for the media, which needs a shock to its sameness. |
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But I do know sensible people who are far, far more optimistic. |
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The mood inside the West Wing late Friday was cautiously, but palpably, optimistic about securing a Copenhagen deal. |
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Havens is optimistic that if PHA beads could be used successfully in cosmetics without losing their ability to scrub. |
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Steve Jobs was right to be optimistic when, in 2004, he announced that he had cancer in his pancreas. |
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Though President Bush ixnayed that idea, Wilkinson is still optimistic. |
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He wrote back saying he was very optimistic that things would change. |
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Burr, who says he backs the excise tax bill on states' rights grounds, is not optimistic. |
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Is deceiving a patient about her true medical condition, in the interest of promoting an optimistic attitude, likely to increase her chances of recovery? |
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To those who call politicians liars and the like, please be optimistic! |
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Many economic liberals have an optimistic view of economic globalization. |
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While they were untouchable last year, there may be four or five teams chasing Kilkenny's tail this year, each giving their fans a reason to feel optimistic about the summer. |
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Mike Ashley, in a vanishingly rare interview yesterday, sounded a determined and optimistic note. |
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Despite the challenging circumstances, many vanuatuans remain optimistic, living up to their resilient reputation. |
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Laudably, he ends on some optimistic notes, and some prescriptions, rather than wallowing in declinism. |
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Crick had the very optimistic view that life would very soon be created in a test tube. |
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His client's lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words. |
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Julian lived in a time of turmoil, but her theology was optimistic and spoke of God's omnibenevolence and love in terms of joy and compassion. |
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Despite the feud, Button insisted he had his team's backing, and was optimistic for the 2005 season. |
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Despite the gravity of Disraeli's condition, the doctors concocted optimistic bulletins, for public consumption. |
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The British prime minister, the Duke of Newcastle, was optimistic that the new series of alliances could prevent war from breaking out in Europe. |
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