* 1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months ; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.

It is unknown exactly what Stephen hoped to accomplish in writing the Life of Saint Wilfrid.

Some recovery of the French colonial empire was made during the French intervention in the American Revolution, with Saint Lucia being returned to France by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, but not nearly as much as had been hoped for at the time of French intervention.

Rakovsky subsequently rejoined his wife in Saint Petersburg, where he hoped to settle down and engage in revolutionary activities ( he was probably expelled after an initial attempt to enter the country, but was allowed to return ).

Under the leadership of Jeffrey Hamm, the party hoped for something of a revival, although they were damaged severely in 1974 when leading member Keith Thompson and his followers split to form the League of Saint George, a non-party movement which they claimed was the true continuation of Mosley's ideas.

After becoming a Latter Day Saint, Lyman traveled 700 miles to Palmyra, New York, where he hoped to meet Joseph Smith and Martin Harris.

Although it was a great honor Sergei accepted his new appointment with reluctance, he had hoped to stay longer in command of the Preobrajensky, where he was popular ; and he and his wife loved the quiet life they were living in Saint Petersburg.

Henry, in exile in Brittany, enjoyed the support of the Breton prime-minister Pierre Landais, who hoped that Buckingham's victory would cement an alliance between Brittany and England.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

Producer Michael White had hoped to begin work on the production and described the script as being "... in the same style as the other one.

He described the conspirators as rich men who were in debt, men eager for power and wealth, Sulla's veterans, ruined men who hoped for any change, criminals, profligates, and other men of Catiline's ilk.

Sinclair described making silicon planar transistors, their properties and applications and hoped they might be available by the end of 1962.

Sassoon described Rivers's bedside manner in his letter to Graves, written as he lay in hospital after being shot ( a head wound that he had hoped would kill him – he was bitterly disappointed when it didn't ):

The Whig MP Charles James Fox described Sidney and Lord Russell as " two names that will, it is hoped, be ever dear to every English heart " and predicted that " when their memory shall cease to be an object of respect and veneration ... English liberty will be fast approaching its final consummation ".

In Men Among the Ruins, Evola described a Traditionalist attitude — possibly leading to a reactionary revolution — like what he had hoped Fascism could have been with the right leaders.

It is described as " a forest in the making " and it is hoped to increase tourism and forestry-related jobs in the area.

On 10 March he had described the NIC as " a goal of overriding importance for the DOE " and expressed that progress to date " was not as rapid as I had hoped ".

She also had an affair with the French phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whom she described as her true love ; she hoped he would leave his wife for her.

Malkin said she hoped the book would, " shatter completely the myths of hope and change in the new politics in Washington ," described the Obama administration as run by, " influence peddlers, power brokers and very wealthy people ," and called it, " one of the most corrupt administrations in recent memory.

Crane believed that the part of Chandler, described in the character breakdown as " a droll, dry guy ", would be the easiest to cast, though it proved more difficult than he initially hoped.

Shyamalan has described Wide Awake as a comedy that he hoped would also make people cry.

NATO immediately expressed regret over Russia's decision to suspend the treaty, describing it as " a step in the wrong direction ", but hoped to engage Moscow in what was described as constructive talks on this issue.

As evidence of his success Cuming sought an esteemed symbolic headdress known as the Crown of Tanasi — described as resembling a wig made of dyed possum hair — which he hoped to present to the king of England.

Morton described Forke as " a bluff amiable Scots Canadian of transparent honest and transcendent modesty ", and " a western agrarian Liberal who hoped to redeem the federal Liberal party but who thought continued Progressive independence a necessary means to that end ".

I touched it and the coolness, the ice-feeling, was gone, and even then it moved a little, perhaps a tiny spasm of the dead muscles, and I hoped that it was truly dead, so that I would not have to kill it.

The expedition had hoped a ship would come by to take them back east, but instead endured a torturous winter of rain and cold, then returned east the way they came.

Hunt then approached Willard Rhodes, who hoped to bring pro football to Seattle, Washington.

An enthusiastic and committed Spiritualist, Conan Doyle hoped that if the photographs convinced the public of the existence of fairies, then they might more readily accept other psychic phenomena.

Although Bismarck hoped to become a diplomat, he started his practical training as a lawyer in Aachen and Potsdam, and soon resigned, having first placed his career in jeopardy by taking unauthorized leave to pursue two English girls, first Laura Russell, niece of the Duke of Cleveland, and then Isabella Loraine-Smith, daughter of a wealthy clergyman.

Nigel hoped to seize East Anglia and established his base of operations in the Isle of Ely, then surrounded by protective fenland.

The phrase has been used since at least the 1930s, and in 1943, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, was reported as warning that the " Christian tradition ... was in danger of being undermined by a " Secular Humanism " which hoped to retain Christian values without Christian faith.

Winterbottom was then responsible for leaving Stanley Matthews out of the England team that lost 1-0 to the USA: the manager had hoped to rest the team's star player so that he would be fresh for later, supposedly more demanding games.

However, she was then married to Geoffrey, Count of Anjou in a union which her father hoped would produce a male heir and continue the dynasty.

He transformed something you'd just written-what you hoped was in a Frankie Howerd idiom-but when you heard him do it, my God, it was something else ;-it was gossiping over the garden wall, the apparent waffle-he was like a tightrope walker, you thought he's going to fall off in a minute, you thought, ' Come on, Frank ', we're waiting for a laugh, and then, suddenly, Bang.

This colossal task, which he at first hoped would occupy but two years, eventually cost him twenty-one, and even then it remained incomplete.

This decision disappointed Defense officials who hoped that the Secretary of Defense ( then James Forrestal ) would be allowed to preside in the President's absence and had offered to locate the NSC staff in the Pentagon.

While many hoped for an immediate rematch, Taylor moved up in weight in his next bout and the fighters did not meet again until 1994 when Chávez dominated and then knocked out a faded Taylor in eight rounds.

Fox initially hoped to raise $ 1 million, then $ 10 million, but later sought to raise $ 1 for each of Canada's 24 million people.

Nigel hoped to seize East Anglia and established his base of operations in the Isle of Ely, then surrounded by protective fenland.

The city of Fulton had hoped for US 40 to go from Columbia through Fulton and intersect US 54 in their city, but the final decision had the highways intersect in what would become Kingdom City, which was then just a rural farm and forested area south of McCredie.

Curtis helped to lead a migration of black settlers from other southern states who hoped to escape discrimination by creating a majority-black state in what was then the Territory of Oklahoma.

Evidently Henry's conversion worried Protestant nobles, many of whom had, until then, hoped to win not just concessions but a complete reformation of the French Church, and their acceptance of Henry was by no means a foregone conclusion.

Balakirev then hoped that a solo recital in his hometown of Nizhny Novgorod in September 1870 would restore his reputation and prove profitable.

Many hoped to get around the law by leaving and then returning, crowding the trains going back.

The friendship between Eliade and Sebastian drastically declined during the war: the latter writer, fearing for his security during the pro-Nazi Ion Antonescu regime ( see Romania during World War II ), hoped that Eliade, by then a diplomat, could intervene in his favor ; however, upon his brief return to Romania, Eliade did not see or approach Sebastian.

Lafayette hoped to gather his family in Britain, then retire to the United States, but did not make it.

Solti was to officially begin his tenure in 1962, and the Philharmonic had hoped that he would lead the orchestra when it moved into its new home at the then yet-to-be-completed Dorothy Chandler Pavilion ; he even began to appoint musicians to the orchestra.

Hitler hoped the Czech would refuse and that the Western Powers would then feel morally justified in leaving the Czechs to their fate.

Since then she has hoped for the return of the duo.