21.   Authorities hope to have the blaze contained sometime Sunday.

22.   Authorities were hoping that an investigative grand jury in Fresno would help them gather enough evidence to charge members of the group with the three slayings.

23.   Based on that inquiry, authorities hope to learn whether building codes and engineering practices will need to be upgraded.

24.   According to Lt. Benavides, authorities hope that spray planes will be swooping over coca fields in Putumayo within the year.

25.   But word spreads quickly, and the authorities may hope that by setting examples they will induce others to exercise new caution.

26.   By next summer, the authority hopes to open a large parking lot at the Otis military reservation in Bourne.

27.   Disgruntled experts who followed the trial said the Geneva authorities had hoped for stronger evidence from the United States.

28.   Federal authorities hope the racketeering convictions Thursday of two Atlanta pimps deliver a strong message to anyone enslaving underaged girls of the night.

29.   Federal authorities are hoping for her cooperation and a plea bargain.

30.   Hayes said that the remains were almost certainly those of Angel and that authorities hoped to use DNA testing to confirm it.