It was our hope to educate him and to give him his freedom when the right time came, for he was a bright and friendly youth who seemed worthy of our interest.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

There was a finality in the rhythm of the prayer -- it was the end of a life, the end of hope, and the wondering if there would ever be another beginning.

It was, the brief writers decided, `` man's best hope for a peaceful and law abiding world ''.

Mr. Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr. Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.

Their only hope of survival was to hold to the road and keep marching.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

Since writing was practiced in the Aegean before the end of the century, we may hope that the details of tradition will now be occasionally useful.

An early hope that irradiation might be the ultimate answer to practically all food preservation problems was soon dispelled.

For Blanche, Kitti's death was a source of guilty, but nonetheless soaring, happy hope.

In Blanche's defense, it must be said she was unaware of the newborn hope.

Kitti was thirty years younger than Stanley, taller than Stanley, prettier than Stanley had any right to hope for, much less expect.

Even as the conviction of truth roared through him, shattering his last hope of safety, he was reaching to release the hand brake, to head up the road for home, doing her bidding.

What was that old sign, supposed to be painted over a door somewhere, Abandon hope, all ye who enter here??

There was, of course, no hope it really would be that simple.

`` Don't forget, there was the hope it would pass for a natural death '', Pauling reminded him.

In Chess for Dummies, James Eade commented on the game, writing, " If even world champions break the rules, what hope do the rest of us have?

While the question of human freedom in the metaphysical sense loses interest to the absurd man, he gains freedom in a very concrete sense: no longer bound by hope for a better future or eternity, without a need to pursue life's purpose or to create meaning, " he enjoys a freedom with regard to common rules ".

" In 2004, the Citizens ' Debate Commission was formed in the hope of establishing an independent sponsor for presidential debates, with a more voter-centric role in the definition of the participants, format, and rules.

The hope was to prove that from these axioms and rules all the theorems of mathematics could be deduced.

Uddin welcomed the review: " I welcome this review and will co-operate fully with him in the hope of a speedy resolution and clarity that I did not break the rules of the House.

The prosecution requested that the Court impose the maximum statutory penalty, saying, " We hope that this sentence of 30 years will not only punish Stewart for her actions, but serve as a deterrent for other lawyers who believe that they are above the rules and regulations of penal institutions or otherwise try to skirt the laws of this country.

His argument to them was that the Reading was in danger of undermining influences from rival railroads ( especially the Pennsylvania ), but his hope was that the postponement would change the voting rules, and the absence of his allied shareholders would prevent a qualified quorum from being present.

The hope was that ULEB would play with rules which would favor players and spectators, which the rules of FIBA Europe did not specifically cater to.

Unable to abide by Kale ’ s hypocritical domestic rules, she finds her only hope of escape to lie in the intervention of the hated Keshav, who promptly brings her back to a Bombay festooned with billboards of her own face, and to the same drab hotel and lonely prospects.

With the new rules, the producers hope to increase the excitement and to prevent good candidates from being knocked out too early.

" In further explaining his request, he wrote, " Judge Levine, in the cynical guise of enforcing the rules, forces pro se complainants to run a hostile procedural gauntlet until they lose hope, and either withdraw their complaint or settle for a pittance, regardless of the merits of the case.

Clinicians also hope to use advanced imaging techniques to monitor heat treatments in real time — heat-induced changes in tissue are sometimes perceptible using these imaging instruments.

UPEACE aims to instill in their students a ‘ sense of hope ’ that forever ‘ changes their lives ’ and world vision in order to transform conflicts and promote sustainable peace and security.

They were extended on the condition that changes in the regulatory system governing railroads be enacted, with the hope that a regulatory system which gave railroads more freedom in pricing and service arrangements, subject to greater competitive constraints, would yield a more viable industry and better service for its users.

The FrePaSo ministers of the administration, elected on a wave of hope for social changes, also disappointed with a perceived lack of investment in social schemes.

Shotgun debugging is a process of making relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence.

*" It is my hope that the technological and publishing revolutions will combine with growing social awareness to facilitate needed changes in our system ; and will supplant self-serving system-perpetuated injustices with new standards of equity, compassion, understanding, fairness, and justice for all.

Schmalleger adds, " It is my hope that the technological and publishing revolutions will combine with growing social awareness to facilitate needed changes in our system ; and will supplant self-serving system-perpetuated injustices with new standards of equity, compassion, understanding, fairness, and justice for all.

However this may be, the significance of the sign changes, from Isaiah 7, where Immanuel symbolises the hope of imminent defeat for Syria and Ephraim, to Isaiah 8: 8, where Immanuel is addressed as the people whose land is about to be overrun by the Assyrians.

Former Victorian arts minister Race Mathews has also weighed in on the debate expressing his hope that, " Melbourne University will not proceed with its proposed changes to the Victorian College of the Arts ," and for ' good sense ' to prevail.

Among the lines shared by both versions, there are some small but significant changes in wording ; for example, " Never too late, if Faustus can repent " in the 1604 text becomes " Never too late, if Faustus will repent " in the 1616 text, a change that offers a very different possibility for Faustus's hope and repentance.

The more people perceive events as uncontrollable and unpredictable, the more stress they experience, and the less hope they feel about making changes in their lives.

By understanding how matter behaves at the critical point, scientists hope to gain a better insight into a variety of physics problems ranging from phase changes in fluids to changes in the composition and magnetic properties of solids.

" Hopefully, as we start to invest more and get the staff in place and some of the changes to the portal properties that we want, we hope to see ( revenue ) grow back in the latter half of the year ," said Ask Jeeves CEO Steve Berkowitz during a conference call with analysts on April 27, 2005.

Their infectious, inclusive, soca-soaked dance music carried important messages about the social changes Toronto was experiencing at the time, about sexual and personal politics, about the need for hope and courage in an age of confusing, impersonal rhetoric from local policymakers and world leaders.

Fellow volcanologist Wes Hildreth said of Johnston, " I think Dave's dearest hope was that systematic monitoring of fumarolic emissions might permit detection of changes characteristically precursory to eruptions ... Dave wanted to formulate a general model for the behavior of magmatic volatiles prior to explosive outbursts and to develop a corollary rationale for the evaluation of hazards.

These new volunteers served as a “ new face, untainted by defeat and accusations of defeatism … to breathe life back into the campaigns and restore hope at home .” Other changes enacted by the British immediately following the Black Week disaster were the mobilization of two more divisions, the calling up of the army reserves, raising a force of mounted cavalry for better mobility, and most importantly by sending volunteers from home overseas which added more than one hundred thousands additional troops by the end of the war.

" Sin City " was covered by the ' 80s heavy metal band Twisted Sister, on their album Twisted Forever, in which Dee Snider changes a lyric: " Ain't got a hope in hell, that's Bon Scott's belief ".

Of late there has been administrative and management changes taking place in the hope of winning some honours.

In all these cases Royal Mail has said that there is " virtually no hope " of changing the postcode, referring to their policy of changing postcodes only to match changes in their operations.

Humans are insignificant specks in the universe and cannot hope to effect changes in it, and it is ludicrous arrogance to think that the universe would change itself for us.

Wynter said of the decision: " I ’ m not unhappy to leave EastEnders because life is about changes and new beginnings, but I am unhappy about the producers reasoning in how they came to their decision because you can always write stories for people to act " She stated that her character would not be killed off, and her hope that Rudolph Walker as her husband Patrick Trueman would not reignite his romance with Pat Evans after her departure, as ; " Patrick and Yolande ’ s marriage is the only representation of a black union on British TV, which I am very proud to have played.

One of the main changes he has brought about is to list Trabzonspor on the Istanbul Stock Exchange, in the hope of raising funds for the club.

Cardinal ’ s lifelong demand for radical changes in policy on aboriginal rights, education, social programs and economic development was a beacon of hope for Canada ’ s First Nations people.