21.   Yet for all the false starts and dashed hopes, Brooke has a sure sense of herself and her music.

22.   A neighbor, Darrell Fralick, said dashed hopes and the media circus got to his friend.

23.   Last year, dashed hopes for large-scale releases of prisoners jailed for anti-Israel activities set off several days of riots in the Palestinian territories.

24.   On Monday he spoke sadly of the dashed hopes since then while receiving an award from Irish-Americans in New York.

25.   That sentiment resurfaced Monday, indicating dashed hopes raised at a summit in Barbados a year ago with U.S. President Bill Clinton.

26.   The anniversary has put a focus on the dashed hopes of quick political progress and the risk that the cease-fire could break down as a result.

27.   The dashed hopes pain many business owners.

28.   The U.S. dollar slid against the Japanese yen on Wednesday on dashed hopes of coordinated support by the major industrial nations and selling by Japanese exporters.

29.   Traders attributed the drop to dashed hopes of an interest-rate cut.

30.   But the dashed hopes from the Geneva talks, and the grinding poverty all around, mean that even the most hopeful are keeping their optimism in check.