1.   Hopes are rising for a European compromise deal.

2.   Hopes were rising that the shoppers who rushed out for bargains on offer in the January sales may have finally triggered the long-awaited recovery in consumer spending.

3.   And hopes have risen that four-party talks involving the two Koreas, America and China may at last get going.

4.   As the search drags into its fourth, fifth and sixth days, hopes rise and fall with every piece of debris snatched from the Gulf.

5.   As the search dragged into its fourth, fifth and sixth days, hopes rose and fell with every piece of debris snatched from the Gulf.

6.   Better not to allow hopes to rise with this team.

7.   But Democrats say their hopes are rising for next year.

8.   But for all the qualifications and warnings about possible failure, hope is rising among cancer patients.

9.   But when Jobs last year vowed to bring out a true consumer laptop, my hopes rose.

10.   But, for the first time since the war began, hopes are rising that it will.