1.   Even after the indictment, Scarpa continued to provide information secretly to DeVecchio, apparently in the flickering hope of obtaining leniency yet one more time.

2.   It was far from easy, but Nebraska on Friday maintained its flickering hopes of winning a third straight national championship.

3.   One final bullet to the flickering hopes of the Mets?

4.   Instead, she nursed a flickering hope of finding him in Albania.

5.   It is a flickering hope.

6.   Several teams barely alive in the playoff races could see their flickering hopes dim even more if they lose Sunday.

7.   The defeat snuffed out its flickering hopes of making the semifinals.

8.   The fighting has dampened already flickering hopes for progress on the peacemaking front.

9.   But flickering hopes of an England revival ended when Allan Donald had DeFreitas caught at slip by captain Kepler Wessels.

10.   But while political sources and diplomats said there were flickering hopes of averting a constitutional crisis, the country lived through some new uncertain moments.