1.   Despite the crisis, optimism prevailed.

2.   Despite the Bougainville crisis a general optimism prevailed over the long-term prospects for the mineral sector.

3.   And yet optimism prevails on the hurricane-ravaged beaches of the Florida Panhandle.

4.   Even after the prisoners are harshly pushed into boxcars, a lingering optimism prevails.

5.   Only hours earlier, optimism had prevailed.

6.   Optimism prevails in the team.

7.   Optimism prevailed in South Africa, where blacks celebrated alongside whites at the beginning of the first full year of multiracial rule.

8.   Optimism prevailed in Johannesburg, where blacks celebrated alongside whites at the beginning of the first full year of multiracial rule in South Africa.

9.   Optimism prevailed as they convened to shape their future in a modern incarnation of the ancient tradition of a loya jirga.