1.   Had he grasped this shard of hope with any real understanding, she wondered?

2.   Boro were being pushed back but Stuart Ripley raised hopes with a brilliant run down the middle in which he beat three players.

3.   Any hint from economic indicators of such a dip is likely to unhinge shares, and to take the current high hopes with them.

4.   But Miller, a first-term senator and a former governor of Georgia, seemed to dampen Republican hopes with his statement in Washington Wednesday.

5.   Cone made sure the Yankees would have hope with his first career victory in the World Series.

6.   German government bonds fell after the Bundesbank council left interest rates unchanged and dampened future rate-cut hopes with anti-inflation rhetoric.

7.   He raised hopes with his style and his rhetoric, but it turned out there was very little that was authentic about the man.

8.   He is backing those hopes with dollars.

9.   Her hope with the new show is to be provocative without stepping over the line, instructive without lapsing into psychobabble.