11.   Its financial reports since then provide a lesson in dashed hopes and desperate tactics for survival.

12.   Losses for investors and dashed hopes for cancer patients resulted.

13.   Many Oakland residents expressed fury at this turn of events, which they described as one more dashed hope and broken promise in a city weary of both.

14.   Nothing better symbolizes these dashed hopes than the fate of the United Nations peacekeeping operations in Bosnia.

15.   The changes make for dashed hopes at schools like John Bowne High School in Queens.

16.   The contraction, worse than even the gloomiest forecasts, dashed hopes that an early recovery was in the works.

17.   The history of foreign investment in Latin America is a history of great expectations, fleeting profits, dashed hopes and defaults.

18.   The sad medley of great beauty, dashed hope, and intense paranoia is hauntingly rendered.

19.   The terrorist attacks ended that chapter and dashed Democratic hopes, while opening a third phase, as the parties worked together to a degree unseen for decades.

20.   They bear the emotional scars of too many dashed hopes, too many broken hearts.