1.   Meanwhile that one Catholic entertained the hope that his freedom to defend the Copernican system might yet be restored.

2.   Most of official Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in East-West relations.

3.   Most significantly on my sense of a distant but still valid national identity-until then I had entertained hopes of return.

4.   Nor, until tonight, had he dared entertain any hope of release.

5.   We allowed ourselves to entertain hopes that the crisis would end soon.

6.   They have the same wistful air as the terrace further back, as if they too had once entertained hopes of the lane going somewhere in life.

7.   And as Keitt watches his ascendance, he entertains fleeting hopes of remaining his trainer.

8.   Alas, if Russia entertained any such hopes, it was in for a painful disappointment.

9.   But given its very low current price, I would hang on and entertain distant hopes for a recovery.

10.   But the recent history of Congress, with its clashes over matters of substance and bitterness over the Clinton impeachment battle, makes that hope difficult to entertain.