Sentences with phrase «fond hope»

Not looking for any invitations to the debate but I've got fond hopes I might be able to at least understand what it was about if I pay close attention.

The answer, then, is not in fond hopes that union leaders will be sweet - talked or shamed into embracing change.

I did have fond hopes for a Criterion version but Olive's looks better than screencaps would have you believe (in motion, it's great).

In the satellite industry, politics have the power to send your fondest hopes straight into a black hole.

Were Brennan still alive, he would rejoice that the Alaska Supreme Court in Valley Hospital Association, Inc. v. Mat - Su Coalition for Choice has recently not only followed his bidding but has perhaps exceeded his fondest hopes.

As one Millerite reported, «Our fondest hopes and expectations were blasted, and such a spirit of weeping came over us as I never experienced before... We wept, and wept, till the day dawn.»

Yes sir, Reverend Phelps, that is my fondest hope for you.

Dear Reverend Phelps; It is my fondest hope, wish, and desire that when you die, you will go and sit at the right hand of God.

And as with almost every biblical film that has preceded this one, the story's passion is completely lost in yet another futile attempt to re-present a multitude of facts in the fond hope that if enough details are repeated, the truth will emerge.

People who divorce may experience it as the end of their fondest hopes and dreams.

He was schooled in Germany and then the United States, and after a vocational struggle, he decided: «It is now no longer my fond hope to be a learned theologian and write big books,» he wrote at the time.

At such times and under such circumstances, we have discovered to our pro-found regret that persons of sufficient talent and ambition will not be lacking to seize the opportunity, strike the blows, and overturn that fair fabric which for the past two centuries has been the fondest hope of the lovers of freedom throughout the world.

In the fond hope that their slam - bang style will once again gain Olympic acceptance, the wild bunch continues to tear up the indoor ice rinks

Very soon, everyone would forget — fond hope!

Thus far, this has remained a fond hope.

Serious punters will often keep track of how well they are doing, in the fond hope of identifying a «winning system.»

For parents, there's the comfort of those great supporting performances, and the fond hope that their kids might just be inspired to look up a little something about some of the historical events, people, and things that they've seen on screen.

It is my fondest hope that someday every child in America will grow up with that same sense of hope.

My fondest hope has already been realized — that the life stories and contributions of these remarkable women would be documented.

Wrote Ravitch: «my fondest hope is that you find a different field, say, sports or finance or broadcasting, where your talents are needed.»

This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces.»

My fondest hope is that having opened up this can of worms the right parties will dig deep enough to determine what a pack of greedy ripoff artists the traditional publishing houses actually are.

The queen frog kept putting out more, for it was her fondest hope that the fairies would feel like bestowing precious gifts on her beloved, wide - smiled daughter.

Sure, their investment banking business may start to boom, but they've had that fond hope for a few years now — time to slash & burn!

Some are relatively innocuous, because they interact in the virtual world, but they are still immune to «sweet reason», contrary to our fondest hopes.

My fondest hope is that a well - thumbed copy becomes a fixture in every Canadian home.»

This is not just my fond hope; it's the hyperlocal weather forecast for this portion of my street taken straight off the face of my smart phone.

At the broadest level a book may be used however the owner pro tem wishes: as a doorstop, disaggregated into signatures for easy reading on the privy, or, more to the point, dipped into but once on an abstruse point... And the author's fond hope that the owner will read the book at all, let alone read it entire, is understandable, proper — and fond.

The fond hope is that they think I am on their side and that I understand what a really difficult and demanding job this is (although no one exactly forces us to do it and the rewards are great).

I don't expect you to adopt a map just because a research team has observed it; instead, my fondest hope is that you test these offerings against your own daily experience with those in your life.

It's just you and me on this journey together, and at the end of the journey it's my fondest hope that you'll be in a better place.

The only thing that rivals parenting for sheer challenge in today's world is marriage, which holds our fondest hopes and our worst fears about permanence of relationships in life.