Sentences with phrase «is a faint hope»

There is a faint hope that fragmentation of the online marketplace and the placement of commerce in the social stream, such as is enabled by Ingram's Aer.io technology, could wrest some of their share.

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Notwithstanding the SV community's phony protestations to the contrary, Benchmark's suit is a brilliant move — not a blunder — a strong opening gambit to pull off something that was increasingly looking like a distant and faint hope.

Given the bureau's track record this is truly faint hope.

The insurance industry is clinging to the faint hope Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will cede ground before June 30.

The one ray of hope in the situation, faint though it may be, is the fact that representatives of the government and the guerrillas, meeting in Mexico City, have signed an agreement calling for talks to begin in Costa Rica on October 16.

Then, as he described it, through reading, and pondering «beauty, art, water, flowers, trees...» something began to happen: «God began to appear on the horizon, it was a faint light, like hope.»

Apparently Tillich was among those who held some hope, however faint, that a genuinely socialist element in the movement could be salvaged, and even made to predominate.

His call to a fresh «innocence of becoming» and «newness of life» is at least a faint echo of the biblical prophets and St. Paul, only without the virtues of love and hope.

In the light of this present possession, involving endless hope, affliction was not so much endured as rejoiced in by the early Christians, and of this spiritual triumph Paul's words are representative: «Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

In the back of my mind there were faint alarms going off, but I did hear them, and it caused me to think: That exactly is it that causes us to spend hours staring at a computer screen in the hopes that someone will post a supportive comment about the party we went to last Friday, or the fight we had Tuesday night with our girlfriend?

It is not strange that in a city straining every faculty toward the very faint hope of survival, such a line as Jeremiah's would be regarded not merely with distaste, but as defeatist if not downright seditious.

Believe me losing tonight and those fainted hopes are gone and if playing like this..

Still, any of that faint hope was killed by some sloppy officiating here, with Silva taking advantage of that extra half - yard he gained on the Arsenal defence.

it is disrespectful to the arsenal fans who have lot faith every game and the hopes looks fainted after seeing such a horrendous choice.

It is obviously better to pursue the faint - and - getting - fainter possibility of three points, than to abandon hope all together (unless, as with McCarthy and Holloway, there's pressure from the fixture list).

The England captain may have started the season slowly but he has improved and his 15 goals are the main reason why United are still harbouring some faint hopes of getting back into the top four.

So unless something can knock them off their stride soon, Arsenal's faint hopes of challenging for the title really will disappear, no matter how well we are playing.

Nationally, England fans that have abandoned the golden generation as being naught but gilt point to his crucial role in derailing at least one major tournament and the resignation of England's best recent manager, while those that still entertain the faint and flickering hope that the pyrite frauds might genuinely glister, just the once, despair of his turbulent, toxic presence in the squad.

Because Dortmund are having a nightmare in the German Bundesliga this season and any faint hopes of managing to regain the title that he led Dortmund to in successive seasons a few years back are long gone, as Bayern Munich continue their recent dominance.

Further, the Liverpool boss added that it's unlikely that he'll have the former Southampton man at his disposal until October, although he holds faint hope that he will return ahead of schedule given his professionalism and the speed with which he has recovered previously.

Sirs: With the faint hope that I might be able to discourage you from choosing some such stellar athlete as Branch Rickey or Stepin Fetchit, I suggest the one athlete who currently dominates his sport as does no other: the Boston Celtics» Bill Russell.

Unlucky for Arsenal but it could have been worse, although a draw is not enough to keep our faint title hopes alive with Chelsea narrowly beating Crystal Palace.

Arsenal fans will be hoping for a morale boosting win against Borussia Dortmund tomorrow, which would make us all feel a lot better as well as keeping alive our faint hopes of topping the Champions League group.

Any faint hopes from the Toffees were dealt a further blow when they were reduced to 10 men with a second yellow for Gueye.

Any faint hope that was left of Borja Baston becoming Atletico Madrid's long - term solution at the striker position were ended today when Swansea and Atletico agreed a fee of $ 18 million for the striker.

But Salzburg were soon level through Dabbur's deflected strike from the edge of the area to round off a quick passing move from kick - off, giving the hosts some faint hope of getting back into the tie.

Chelsea's only faint hope of resurrecting their own bid for Lukaku rests on whether or not the player is willing to veto his move to United in favour of holding out for his old employers.

Chelsea's faint hopes of finishing in the top four and securing Champions League qualification were all but dashed by London rivals West Ham, who earned a share of the spoils at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

It's Inter that they need to catch in that position, so anything short of a victory would put an end to any faint hopes of a Champions League return this season.

He should have been dismissed as a failed buy many moons ago but here he sits earning a good wage and doing nothing with the faint glimpse of hope that one season he may actually return some of that promise.

Kaboul sparked faint hopes of a revival as he headed home from a corner with just under 20 minutes remaining, but that proved to be the sum total of the fightback.

Arsenal are currently in a desperate state where they simply have to win all the remaining games in order to keep their faint hopes of winning the title alive and one can be sure that they will be gunning for a victory on Sunday as well.

I tell her that my time on social and dating sites is in hopes of finding an able hiking partner, and that's certainly true, but I hold out a faint shadow of hope that when I find her she'll be interested in me sexually and romantically, too.

I can hardly believe how fast the time has gone and that Tomorrow I will be returning to work — armed with a new breast pump and the faint hope that my brain will function.

We were trying and hoping for this sweet life and thus testing each month as soon as I thought a faint line may be a possibility.

Barca defender Gerard Pique piled misery on the Italians four minutes later, mopping up the rebound after Luis Suarez was thwarted by goalkeeper Alisson before Roma's top scorer Edin Dzeko struck at the right end to give his side faint hope of a turnaround in the second leg.

In a game Swansea needed to win and hope Southampton were thrashed by Manchester City — with a 10 - goal swing in the Swans» favour — to keep alive their faint hopes of staying up, the hosts took an early lead through Andy King.

Needing to beat the Potters and hope Southampton were thrashed by Manchester City — with a 10 - goal swing in the Swans» favour — to keep alive their faint hopes of staying up, the hosts took an early lead through Andy King but Stoke fought back to win 2 - 1 thanks to goals from Ndiaye and Crouch.

The glow seemed consistent with the size and shape of the matter needed to make ngc 5907 spin the way it does, so astronomers hoped that this might be the first sign that the dark halos were made of ordinary stars and planets — albeit faint ones — rather than exotic, yet - to - be discovered particles.

The faint hope is that the two will find each other desirable.

And then of course there is still the faintest of hopes, shared by many scientists, that the move won't be necessary because the relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom can be rekindled.

In hopes of capturing the faint signal, LUX has been placed under a mile - thick layer of rock, which will help shield it from cosmic rays and other radiation that might interfere with the signal.

Still, buried in amongst his recent roles there was one faint glimmer of hope: Bill Condon's Dreamgirls, a film that earned Murphy an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win for Best Supporting Actor.

Hopes were high for Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck, featuring the excellent Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams, but the movie feels a faint letdown after 2015's Carol.

Before Manhattan's skyline was forever changed, this movie might have had a faint hope and a prayer of somehow being perceived as a perverted love letter to New York City.

Sixteen deleted scenes are more of the same equivocal garbage — faint hopes that there might be something genuinely disturbing in this batch of outcasts are submarined within the first minute.

However this faint glimmer of hope in her life is destroyed by the Duke who takes Bess as a live in mistress, while halting the advances of his wife towards Grey (Dominic Cooper).

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It's tempting to read it as such, not simply because you do hope this administration is better than the last, but also because, as the decade of the aughts draws a curtain on nine years of increasing outer and inner dark, there's at least the faint hope for some cloudbusting in the cinema, too.

Although we held out a faint hope that the car might turn up after a few days, in case a joy - riding teen had dumped the car nearby, we eventually had to face the unpleasant truth that the Audi A7 was missing in action.