1.   A recent UN initiative seems to offer some hope of a lasting peace settlement in the region.

2.   And a raft of prospective third-party saviors offered no hope.

3.   At best, she guessed, it will result in a treatment that offers some hope to some people.

4.   But at first glance, his own might have seemed to offer little hope of withstanding its seventy-five-ton impact.

5.   Educational vocationalism does not seem to offer much hope for the reform either of education or of the labour Market.

6.   The clear distinction between the old and modern lacquers also offers hope of a means of identifying fakes.

7.   The company offers the hope of big returns for people who buy its shares.

8.   The report offers little hope that the economy will improve any time soon.

9.   The venomous exchanges between deputies from the two republics in the Kremlin yesterday offered little hope that reason would prevail.