Sentences with phrase «who hoped»

After over three hours of buildup outside the locked Senate Chamber doors in Albany, the brewing confrontation between Republicans, who hoped to convene a session today, and Democrats, who hoped to stop them, doesn't seem like it's come to pass.

Mr. Jeffries» support for the accord is another blow to Democrats and Republicans who hoped to derail the deal in a vote later this month.

The Liberal Democrats, who hoped to get the British people acquainted with the idea of coalition politics, would like us all to think we are now in a period of plurality.

Federal Judge Steven W. Rhodes gave the go - ahead to Detroit's historic bankruptcy filing, and dashed the hopes of city employees and retirees who hoped state law would protect their pensions.

State university officials have called off negotiations with Don Peebles, the Florida developer who hoped to make his big break into the New York market with the nearly $ 1 billion development of Long Island College Hospital.

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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal from developers of the proposed Constitution pipeline, who hoped to challenge New York state's denial of a water quality certification for the natural gas project.

«The same applies to all other UK victims of torture abroad who hoped the House of Lords would open the way to redress,» she said.

It stunned observers and even prompted a new approach from Tory strategists, who hoped the thought of Gordon Brown remaining in No 10 for another five years would startle voters enough for them to get down to the polling station.

His statement will bitterly disappoint anti-war campaigners, who hoped that Gordon Brown would draw a line under Iraq after succeeding Tony Blair by holding an investigation to ensure the lessons are learnt.

The Labour rebels broke the party line to support an amendment forcing schools who hoped to become self - governing trusts to first gain approval of parents through a ballot.

His then mistress, Carol Shaw, gave an affidavit about their affair to a solicitor in 2000 - after being persuaded to do so by one of Blackman's rivals who hoped to see him ousted as a group leader.

The plan drew cautious praise from advocates who hoped the city would do more to provide shelter for the city's homeless.

To the disappointment of those who hoped the immense wealth of Jon Corzine, a former Goldman Sachs top executive, would give him the independence to usher in a new day in Garden State politics.

Survivors of abuse, who hoped after more than a decade of fighting that this was the year, were left hurt and angry at Flanagan.

Sometimes as I walk, tears come as I recall the hundreds of missing person posts that were put up after the attacks by family and friends who hoped that somehow their loved one made it out and possibly was left unidentified in a hospital or maybe wandering the street.

Gone were the 100 paid staffers who orchestrated an Obama victory in the state; now OFA employed one person in Wisconsin, Grandone, who hoped to hire two or three assistants if the budget allowed.

State Education Commissioner David Steiner, who is under intense pressure to either grant or deny a waiver to Mayor Bloomberg's NYC schools chancellor pick, Cathie Black, is keeping a fairly low profile these days, but he did respond to a letter from minority lawmakers who hoped to meet with him prior to his decision.

The CIOT has cautioned that a prolonged transition period may have a knock - on impact for those who hoped for tax reform as a result of Brexit.

I found only two exceptions: (1) a government official impressed by what he told me were five levels of security to make sure the fish don't escape, and (2) an associate of the soon - to - open biodiversity museum (designed by Frank Gehry) who hoped that the museum could be a forum for such issues.

We were stopped frequently by parents, grandparents, even a young women who hoped to be a mom someday and asked if they could take a photo of our toddler and the Mountain Buggy label so they could purchase a Bagrider for their next toddler trip.

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In overtime, Darnold was who we hoped he'd be.

The best Christmas story is about a boxing match — a 1923 bout between Bill Brennan and a dying Billy Miske, who hoped to stay on his feet long enough to bring home a $ 2,400 purse.

Marijuana to Remain Illegal Under Federal Law, DEA Says Marijuana advocates who hoped the cascade of states moving to legalize medical marijuana would soften the federal stance on the drug faced disappointment Thursday as the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it will keep marijuana illegal for any purpose...

Anyone in Judaism who hoped for the coming of the Messiah thought in that connection of a renewal of the nation's splendor; not without good reason was Jesus hailed on his entry with the cry, «Blessed is the coming Kingdom of our father, David!»

I am pleased to count myself as one of the «liberal writers» of the time who hoped the train could be stopped at another point described by Bottum.

To many Christianity seemed a possible key to the power which was the envy of non-Europeans and a vehicle by which the desired techniques of the Occident might be acquired by those who hoped through them to attain the position and the wealth which the West possessed.

As the sole victor over the Egyptian army, Yahweh was to be the sole ruler in Israel.10 When Israel was settled in the land that had been promised, there were those who hoped that the kingdom of God was now present reality.

We all agreed that working with young victims could be a valuable learning experience for a person who hoped one day to have his own church and congregation.

When my family moved to Arizona, I joined the tail end of the white evangelizers who hoped to bring faith and education to the Native American and Mexican laborer population that surrounded us.

Although not recognized by canonical autocephalous Orthodox churches, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church had broken off from the Moscow Patriarchate soon after the Bolshevik Revolution, a development encouraged both by the communists and by the ecumenical patriarch, who hoped that the Soviets would save him from the Turks.

Muslims who hoped and worked for revitalized, contemporary Islamic states have been thwarted time and again during recent decades.

Those who hoped, and predicted, that he would criticize American foreign policy were disappointed.

Ruether has also argued that «what Christianity has in Jesus is not the Messiah, but a Jew who hoped for the coming of the Kingdom of God and who died in that hope» (cited in Anatomy of Contempt, by John M. Oesterreicher [Seton Hall University Press, 1975], p. 32).

Simon must have been one of those who hoped Jesus would take up arms Jesus» refusal must have been a bitter disappointment to Simon, and perhaps to Judas Iscariot.

The Earth Charter is the project of a loose group of NGOs who hoped to use their accreditation to the 1992 UN «Conference on Environment and Development» at Rio de Janeiro (the «Earth Summit») to get a document containing some more radical environmental views on the formal agenda and, if possible, adopted.

Those who hoped for a Persian Spring probably will go home disappointed.

If this is true, it is a most convincing answer to those who feared, as well as those who hoped, that AA would render the church's ministry to alcoholics unnecessary.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who hoped to see a masked vigilante priest when I clicked on this article.

Bright, young and adept minds with colossal ambitions along with insatiate veterans who hoped to satisfy their hunger for innovation filled the room with the right kind of positive aura.

The change, he said at the time, came in response to concerns the measure could have negative tax implications for small businesses following a death and create challenges for owners who hoped to pass their family businesses to the next generation.

Los Angeles - based Snap has had trouble sustaining momentum as a public company, providing lots of change and uncertainty for investors who hoped to see consistent growth.

The homeownership rate of households headed by people aged 30 to 34 fell to 46.3 percent in the first quarter of 2018, a disappointment for those who hoped the upward turn in the fourth quarter of 2017 (to 47.1 percent) was a sign of better times to come.

Those who hoped to see Ottawa slow down in the face of Donald Trump's backward - looking agenda will be disappointed: the Trudeau government still sees clean growth as an essential opportunity for Canada — and is willing to put some of its money where its mouth is.

The rest need help: They run and reach for the outstretched hand of a stranger who they hope will catch them and haul them up.

But perhaps the biggest lesson Gould holds for aspiring tech giants — or, in the case of Canada, the governments who hope to foster them — was his belief in creating something that's not only new and different, but eminently worthwhile.

How it pays off: The Santa Ana, Calif., company is still in startup mode, says Roberts, who hopes to step up revenue by charging retailers for a targeted consumer base, based on preferences in gift cards.

That's both encouraging and discouraging news for those who hope to make it to the top.

«I was going to bed every night and praying to the good Lord that we would get just one rain on the crop,» said Smith, who hopes to earn several thousand dollars for each acre - foot of water he can sell.