Sentences with phrase «hope had become»

When we began discussing and defining the culture of 1871 and the special community that we hoped it would become, we spent a substantial amount of time on governance.

It's a natural consequence of a market that has settled into a lull after two years of record - breaking deals, a period of exuberance that developers and brokers had hoped would become the new normal.

It meant that a hope has become a reality.

We have no indication that Obi Wan is going to develop into the player we hoped he would become (unlike Conley who showed flashes of the CB he can be).

Watson was everything Clemson fans could have hoped he'd become when the five - star chose Swinney's Tigers over home - state Georgia and the rest of the universe back in 2014.

McLemore is one of the players around the league that many feel has an untapped potential and that his time in Sacramento has not allowed him to develop into the player many hoped he would become.

Before he got injured he was showing glimpses of the player we all hoped he'd become, but time has moved on.

Arsene, I believe, hoped he would become match fit by playing on a regular basis, but hoping he did not aggrevate the injury.

how years ago it seemed everyone here loved Maddon and hoped he would become a Cardinal... now not so much

They include issues about the importance of breastfeeding and about women in the workplace; issues, which we had all hoped would become legacy issues, about prejudice and discrimination; and important issues about geographic variation and inequality, including the importance of cultural leadership in changing attitudes.

It is clear that Mr Osborne will not be appointed as the powerful Chairman that ConservativeHome had hoped he would become.

Cuomo said the purpose of the bus tour was to help inform women voters that abortion is a campaign issue this year, and help increase female voter turnout statewide for the Women's Equality Party, which he said he hoped would become a political force in Albany this November.

His folks hoped he would become an engineer.

I hope you've become a bit of a Gerard Yosca devotee after Tuesday's post, especially since you have the chance to win this necklace from his upcoming fall collection: Classic Rock.

Yes, over the years I'd hope I've become a fairly smart shopper.

MARKETING VOX — Oct 4 — After just 10 weeks, Wal - Mart has pulled the plug on «The Hub,» a social - networking site for teens that the nation's largest retailer had hoped would become a competitor for MySpace.

Also the fact that finally Dumbledore is no longer trying to hold information back from Harry shows us this feel that Harry has finally matured into a proper wizard that we all hoped he would become.

In response, Horace Mann, the renowned public - school advocate, designed what he hoped would become a Prussian - style system of state - sponsored secular education.

The model under which they operated was one that appealed to us, and we hoped it would become a template for how we reorganized the traditional public schools.

I'm pretty sure she was hoping I'd become a scientist — and not a newspaper editor.

At the same time she was launching what she hoped would become the Osage Lake High series, Flynn was keeping lists of changes necessary for self - improvement («Hair: Buy and experiment with mousse.»).

Decades later, Marx published the first part of his unfinished magnum opus Das Kapital (1867 — 94), perhaps hoping it would become the foundation of a total revolution.

St. Mark's Bookshop was packed last night at around 6:30 p.m. with people awaiting their hero — or, a guy they hoped would become their hero in a very specific local matter — Michael Moore.

She had hoped he would become a journalist, novelist, and / or screenwriter.

Legal writing was not then a fully - formed or recognized discipline, but a journal — we thought — could help provide it with a foundation for research, inquiry, and scholarly exchange in what we hoped would become an emerging and exciting field.

Neistat spoke to BuzzFeed about his inability to figure out a strategy for «Beme News,» which CNN had hoped would become a central part of its digital news business.

Mohammed Kamal Hussain sent a message to someone hoping they would become a jihadist.

Whether the notch will remain is up for debate (Apple had hoped it would become as iconic as the circular home button), but it's fair to assume that the edge - to - edge design will remain.

Back in November Katherine, from Katherines Corner, invited her readers to join her in what she hoped would become an annual event, the Holiday Magazine My Way Challenge.

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«It becomes something that is celebrated,» Heverly says, «rather than being something that employees feel like they have to do on the side in secret and hope not to get caught.»

If you are an early - stage venture fund, you have to be thinking pretty hard about, «I hope I'm backing the company that ultimately becomes a «super-have» because they seem to have an unfair advantage.»

In response to the urgency, CI changed its mission with the hope that our efforts would become central and essential for our national, business and community partners.

The engineers viewed the ruse as a stopgap measure, Volkswagen has suggested, and hoped to abandon it when better technologies became available.

The man hoping to become Germany's next chancellor has been snubbed by the Italian president after calling Silvio Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo «two clowns».

Bitcoin has soared more than 1,600 percent this year as people rush to buy the digital currency in the hope it will become a legitimate alternative to gold or traditional money.

It has become a top seller for the company, and management hopes the Travato might lure some younger customers.

Failure now would put thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at risk, and SpaceX has become crucial not just to the U.S. space program but also to countries and companies around the world hoping to put up satellites.

Humana is likely hoping this new tool will improve the health of its members by increasing the likelihood of medication adherence — it's part of its broader goal of having its members become 20 % healthier by 2020.

Teenagers were often the target demographic in advertisements for the Walkman, and Sony hoped that the device would become associated with fitness, youth and mobility.

Though he hopes to become what his father calls «the white Will Smith,» Paul has yet to find his breakout starring role, though he does know what kind of work he'd like to be doing.

Cook told CNBC last quarter that he hoped the company's services division would become the size of a Fortune 100 company by next year.

For those hoping that Shopify would defy the odds and become a lasting global success in tech, the accusations of fraudulent activity are enough to strike fear in their hearts.

Click (buy online) and pick (drive to the store to get it) has become amazingly popular — especially with moms who'd rather throw the kids in the car and make three quick pickups at her favorite stores, without parking, instead of sitting at home and hoping for the delivery guy to show.

Lately Pearson has been looking to colonize new ground, gambling with experimental treatments for what he hopes will become a larger payoff.

Ultimately, it was hoped, they could then become fully productive team members more quickly than they had in the past.

Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico's most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $ 1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.

One can only hope that it will notch up the urgency for government and businesses to address the serious threat that botnets have become.

«The two chief fixes my bill hopes to achieve... would mitigate the errors of the SEC's rulemaking and allow investment crowdfunding to become a vital resource for all Americans.»

Entrepreneurs can become so focused on the money that's either coming in fast or not as much as they had hoped.

Over that same five - year period in Guerrero, «the heroin trade has become extremely lucrative,» according to Mexican security analyst and El Daily Post editor Alejandro Hope.