1.   But this is a novel written by a former dissident from Czechoslovakia, most of whose postwar history does not inspire optimism.

2.   Even the new political regime inspired optimism for a time.

3.   The last few weeks have not inspired optimism.

4.   The stopgap spending compromise in Washington failed to inspire optimism among bond traders, and prices of Treasury securities turned lower.

5.   They inspire optimism.

6.   Yet in Taiwan itself, his election has inspired cautious optimism.

7.   A survey of service-sector business inspired optimism in the U.S. economy and sent the dollar higher against most major currencies Wednesday.

8.   Latest plan to rescue Africa inspires optimism, doubt.

9.   Mostly, it is the potential tone of a Mayor Livingstone that strikes fear into Blair loyalists -- and inspires optimism in disaffected left-wing Laborites.

10.   Records have been set repeatedly in all the popular market gauges mainly because declining interest rates have inspired optimism among investors.