11.   The Senate securities bill sets out to protect corporate officials from being sued when they issue overly optimistic predictions of corporate profitability that are simply innocent misjudgments.

12.   Their most optimistic prediction is that the fire will be fully under control Monday.

13.   When final figures are in, holiday spending may even top the most optimistic predictions.

14.   Aziz made these optimistic predictions when he released the annual economic survey, that evaluates the economic performance of Pakistan over the past year.

15.   Crawford said the optimistic prediction took into account the fact the company would release three new vehicles, including its first entrant in the medium to large car segment.

16.   He said the election commission had used a best-case scenario to make what turned out to be overly optimistic predictions.

17.   The aborted U.S. peace shuttle cast a pall of pessimism over a region that had heard some optimistic predictions as the mission was underway.

18.   This is quite an optimistic prediction, which is also relieving.

19.   This is a more optimistic prediction than other recent, authoritative studies suggesting growth in eastern Germany will fall below the western rate to two percent.