Sentences with phrase «vague hopes»

My love of sci - fi mingles with my enjoyment of ruining people's lives through ineffectual planning and general stupidity in Aven Colony, which takes the joys of constructing a city and then throws a thin science fiction theme at it in the vague hopes it'll stick.

Before beginning her six months of over-the-phone sessions with Carmichael coach Ashley Kipp, Adams would just ride when she could, armed only with vague hopes of losing some weight and getting more exercise.

I have vague hopes of reincarnation, or as my faith tradition teaches, the Summerlands where I can visit with those I have loved.

But that's all they are, vague hopes that I don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about.

Even when life after death was a very vague hope, held by only a few, scornfully denied by some, supposed to affect only a selected group of saints and sinners, (E.g., Daniel 12:2.)

What little is left of my Christianity is a vague hope that there's something beyond this life so that death is not the end, but that's it.

Against this trend we would assert that God is not some abstract entity towards whom we fire off prayers in the vague hope that they might land somewhere near him.

You get to sell vague hope.

FW Eddie Nketiah, N / R — The young striker was sent on in the vague hope he could repeat his Carabao Cup heroics against Norwich, but had barely any time to get into the game.

I wait a few minutes in the vague hope that perhaps he will go back to sleep.

Though, I must admit... I still bid ridiculously low on ebay, in the vague hope that I might still get my latest baby gear crush.

There was no chance, it was felt, that the Scottish would vote «Yes» in the vague hope of achieving some sort of devo - max.

And they will not forgive either party if we call time ahead of the election that has been legislated for in 2015 — destabilising the nation in the vague hope of short - term political gain.»

There had been a vague hope among some rebel Labour MPs that even if this summer's leadership challenge failed to topple Jeremy Corbyn, it might at least fatally weaken him.

Many asked me to comment on what Star Trek technologies have been realised since the original series, which ones remain a vague hope and which are impossible.

Rather than being forced into getting all dressed up after a long day of work and heading out with the vague hope of meeting someone you'd actually like to spend time with, dating sites streamline the process for you.

I had vague hope that this one might actually be better, given that it didn't come from the writer of those first two movies.

By the end, Brad's status hasn't changed much, but there's vague hope that he might strive for something resembling contentment.

For that you might consider them must - sees for cinephiles in addition to Bond completists, as they offer not only vital lessons in how the legal aspects of filmmaking affect the creative aspects, but also the ever - so - vague hope that we'll one day be equally dismissive of Michael Bay's boffo bullshit.

Reaching back to and followed by the «96 - hour window» in which Bryan must recover her, the entire film is haunted by the vague hope that it's not too late for Bryan to save her from the big bad world and keep her all to himself.

The reason being is that the solution would have no targeted value, with the platform being leveraged in a vague hope that it will be beneficial.

The vague hope that students will be able to apply what they know in depth about supermarkets to new domains is not sustained by experience or psychological theory.

B&N locked down the Tablet too much, provided only 1 GB of personal space, and a vague hope of future B&N content (music, games, videos) for the remaining untapped 15 GB.

Next week there's a vague, vague hope that Resident Evil: Revelations might climb to the top but other than that it's FIFA «s week to lose yet again.

Still, some vague hope remains that Bad Company 3 will eventually surface: «So it's not that we've buried the crew, so to speak,» continued Lars.

I think devs intentionally keep it vague hoping to get people like me to buy it.

«Too often we see him stand behind a lectern somewhere and earnestly repeat a whole lot of pseudo scientific waffle in the vague hope that he will be believed.

Microsoft attempted to force its Windows 8 interface onto traditional PCs in a vague hope that it would get more tablet apps and boost its mobile efforts.

(3) Obtaining a vague hoped - for better situation on balance for her own children, such as the older half - sibling's affection (if the stepchild is more attached to his mother's other children than to hers), or even free babysitting.

Not exact matches

Eventually, you just craft a vague response and hope for the best.

All too often, I see principals of advisory firms convince themselves that they have a succession plan in place when, in fact — more often than not — what they have is more of a vague idea of what they hope will happen.

For DuVernay, hope isn't a vague feeling of optimism but something far more practical — d essential.

But unlike conservatives, they go beyond some vague, theoretical wishful thought about a «second chance» or hope for the good heathen who somehow repents.

Obama, who ran in 2008 by subordinating ideology to his vague themes of hope and change, has governed as one of the most ideological and partisan of presidents.

Without such concrete imagery, hope might remain too vague, devoid of context and content.

Faith in a supreme being and in a supreme purpose, although vague, is not without hope.

The way she feels about what she is hearing, what Whitehead calls «the subjective form» of the prehension, is affected by her tiredness and the soreness of some of her muscles as well as by vague and half - conscious hopes and fears.

That is obvious in a broad and vague way when we consider some of the various ways in which we speak of trying (and often failing) to understand: We speak of hoping to understand the instruction manual that accompanies a new word processor and of trying to understand a novel like James Joyce's Ulysses; though both are printed texts, what it is to understand one is quite different from what it is to understand the other.

When asked about whether the Seahawks are counting on Lynch to come back (he's currently rehabbing off site, with the apparent hope to return by the playoffs), Cable gave a vague but telling response.

While the study found that high schools in the state were meeting the law's minimum guidelines - likely left purposefully vague as a necessary legislative compromise for an unfunded mandate - Chrisman and her co-authors thus expressed the hope that further revisions of the law would beef up the educational requirements for athletes and parents.

A more accurate title might be We hope that vague, unsubstantiated «flaws» that we've made up might be used to mislead others about the real dangers of homebirth.

It is just because they failed to actually talk about them, preferring vague generalities like «change» and «hope».

But sources close to Miliband confirm that they intended to implement the plan after the 2015 election but had been hoping to keep it secret apart from a vague commitment in the 2015 manifesto to the reform of political funding.

The letter says that vague laws on the use of campaign money create a tremendous «potential for abuse,» and notes, «In hopes that this shortcoming will be addressed in the upcoming legislative session, I am forwarding a copy of this letter to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.»

«I would hope that they were talking to the legislative leaders and preparing the ground for this before sending out such a vague trial balloon,» he added.

The details of what, if anything, Litwin hopes to gain by currying favor with the state's most powerful politicians have always been vague.

And while «cultivating a life purpose» may seem like a vague mission, participants were asked to rate how strongly they felt good about what they had done in the past, and what they hoped to do in the future.

I hope your 2018 has started off great and that you have managed to come up with achievable goals, I am guilty of those «vague» ideas of how to achieve my goals, but will be working towards making them concrete in the upcoming months and I am very excited.

If you're hoping to start dating an engineer, or if you're an engineer yourself, it's probably safe to assume you have at least a vague knowledge of the online dating scene and its merits.

If you're really, really hoping to get a response from your match, a vague greeting won't get you stellar results.