What was the point in agonising over balance sheets and tedious analyses of risks — and why bother worrying about dizzying levels of debt and exposure to potential defaults — when all good things come to those who
are optimistic enough to expect them?»
I am optimistic enough to think that, in due course, they will have advanced sufficiently such that stronger growth, accompanied by less extreme central bank policy settings, could be anticipated.
Yet I could find one who
was optimistic enough to claim that the selling is far over and that the market will actually go a lot higher in a matter of Continue reading →
If all this happened I'd
be optimistic enough, actually I'd be ecstatic.
Britain's economy got the mildest of pats on the back today, when an influential business group
was optimistic enough to declare that firms are performing «not great, but OK».
A couple of the participants
were optimistic enough to predict an absolute majority for the Tories; only one was more downbeat than Grieve, who predicted that his beloved Conservative party would win 308 seats a few weeks later.
Only the most wide - eyed optimist would say that our big - T or little - t troubles are behind us, but I would
be optimistic enough to claim that we have more cause to be hopeful than to be pessimistic.
I am optimistic enough to believe that most people can tell when regulations are fair and correct and therefore follow them.
I'm optimistic enough to believe that, prices and product quality being roughly equivalent, people would choose products with less environmental impact if they had any measure of that impact.
Not exact matches
That month, the combined supply at all of California's biggest reservoirs stood at about 78 % of their average levels, but officials remained cautiously
optimistic, saying there
was no guarantee that the state would see
enough storms to fully raise water levels.
«As a company, we
were too idealistic and
optimistic and didn't focus
enough on preventing abuse or thinking through how people could use the tools our platform provides to do harm,» Facebook said in a statement to Entrepreneur.
This
is the biggest problem with the data compiled: You
are talking to people who felt
optimistic enough about their own abilities to quit their jobs and start a business.
Nevertheless, I think we can
be cautiously
optimistic that universal structures in the physical, biological and social worlds would
be enough to anchor human and alien languages in a common semantic framework.
It
's a perpetual cat - and - mouse game, but Ayrapetov, for one,
is optimistic that ransomware
's days
are numbered, with a caveat: «In about two years, it will probably
be difficult
enough for the malware writers that they'll start looking for something new.»
They
are the first generation native to the modern world, and they
're still young
enough to
be optimistic about it.
They've
been so
optimistic that they feel confident
enough to raise wages and invest in their business, which grows the economy.»
In fact, indications from federal officials suggest they
are not
optimistic that
enough provinces will sign on to salvage Flaherty's original grand plan.
Although I don't think China's economy
is adjusting quickly
enough, especially credit growth, I remain cautiously
optimistic that Beijing knows what it must do and will
be able to pull it off.
I
'm optimistic that the crisis will
be serious
enough to break up the eurozone and create a new, more socialist order in which debts
are written down — and with them, the «bad savings» of the financial elites that
are seeking to do to Europe what the Roman Empire did when it reduced Western Europe to feudalism.
A byproduct of these overly
optimistic assumptions
is that states have failed to contribute
enough money to the «pension piggy bank» as
was necessary to pay out future benefits.
Given the huge opportunity cost of allocating to cash or bonds at current yield levels, even generally
optimistic return assumptions for stocks
are enough to keep portfolio level returns near 0 % real.
Both Fabiola Gianotti and Guido Tonelli - the leaders of the two teams -
are optimistic that they can gain
enough data in 2012 for a definite result: either that the Higgs has
been discovered in that mass range, or that there
is no evidence of the Higgs at all.
Justice Antonin Scalia declares in Stenberg v. Carhart that he
is «
optimistic enough to believe» that the decision constitutionally protecting partial «birth abortion will «one day...
be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court's jurisprudence beside Korematsu [validating internment of Japanese «Americans during World War II] and Dred Scott [holding white supremacy and racial slavery as fundamental tenets of American constitutionalism].»
I
am optimistic that Golden Rice will become an effective and safe way to help people get
enough vitamin A in their diets.
It will
be hard
enough to deal with an other season of painful injuries not an other season of the same suspects, at least give us a few new faces to look at and to support and
be optimistic about.
The first race of F1s new era wasn't exactly a thriller, but we saw
enough to
be cautiously
optimistic for the rest of the season.
Now time for Munich and
am feeling quite
optimistic about getting a result in munich as the last 2visits have
been pretty decent (1 -1,2-0) Campbell / Bellerin for the Right side, Alexis / Monreal on the Left side
is good
enough to contain Bayerns wide players.
Not close
enough to
be optimistic and not far
enough to
be pessimistic.»
And my
optimistic side thinks that although they'll have to face the awesomeness that
is LaMarcus Aldridge, but our aging overrated players can still summon
enough energy to win a couple of more games.
Whether his upside will
be enough to subvert injury concerns
is yet to
be seen, though Price
is optimistic it won't.
We can probably agree that players like Bellerin and Iwobi don't bring
enough today or this season, but perhaps I
am more
optimistic that this
is because of the fact that Wenger doesn't know how to develop them rather than a lack of talent on their behalf.
I also said that «there
's enough young talent to
be optimistic about 2017 and beyond.»
However, their latest acquisition Mohamed Salah, who made his unofficial debut in the match, produced a moment of magic which
is enough for the fans to
be optimistic ahead of the new season.
It
was enough to leave everyone satisfied and
optimistic about the season.
My mood at half time
was (foolishly)
optimistic with an expectation that a stiff half time talking - to would galvanise the players
enough to drag themselves back into the game.
We have had
enough time to recover from Sunday and I
am optimistic.»
on whether they
are close to agreeing a deal with Ozil... Not close
enough to
be optimistic and not far
enough to
be pessimistic.
Enough to make those who'd followed him during his years at Mainz 05 and Borussia Dortmund worry that this
optimistic blowing of trumpets on his arrival would
be anticlimactic.
Labour insiders
are optimistic that Lewis» 7,000 majority will
be enough to save him in the pro-Remain seat.
It
is not too late for Miliband to persuade voters that he
is able to deliver higher living standards for all, not just the rich; but Cameron will hope that by this time next year,
enough voters will feel better off, and sufficiently
optimistic about the future, to spurn Labour's message.
Heading into the 2016 presidential year when Democratic turnout
is traditionally high, Gianaris
is optimistic the Dems can pick up
enough seats on Long Island to put them in a position to grab at least partial control of the chamber.
«I
'm very
optimistic that I'll
be able to raise
enough money in 2012 to
be an extremely competitive candidate in 2013,» he said.
He
's been a candidate for everything from governor to common councilor, and
is still
optimistic he'll win the mayoral race, noting he
's gotten 35 percent of the vote in the past, and believes that
's enough to win this election.
Committee Chair John Diehl
was publicly
optimistic that he could come up with
enough votes to override any veto.
«From my personal experience, anytime I sell my cocoa beans, my expenditure naturally increases and this render me to spend out of my budget, I
am confident we the cocoa farmers will save
enough money and
optimistic, if government and other cocoa buying companies transact with the farmers through a mobile money system, would improve the cocoa farmers economic life,» he said.
«Of course, that might not
be good
enough for real applications, but so far we
are quite
optimistic that we can work this out.»
Hooper also remains
optimistic: «There
is a little tension here in my option, but not
enough to significantly move my opinion on the subject one way or the other.»
This
optimistic assessment makes sense only so long as God
is a truly big idea, not an idea small
enough to
be threatened by the results of experiments; not a «God of the gaps» but a God that
is bigger than the cosmos.
And Crowley
is optimistic that the project could result in initial cleanup operations within the next year, assuming her crew can grab
enough media attention when it returns.
The research, conducted by researchers at New York University and the University of Miami (Fla.), shows that «doom and gloom» language
was present in only 10 percent of the analyzed U.S. newspaper articles; by contrast,
optimistic language — such as, «the oceans
are mostly intact, still wild
enough to bounce back to ecological health» (New York Times, January 15, 2015)--
was present in more than a quarter of these stories.