Scotland would have hoped for a better World Cup draw but are stuck with the one they got.
Tim Cook may go on to become the best successor Apple could have hoped for.
The stock price is going up and the shareholders are getting the value they hoped for.
The petition closed with 1, 174 signatures - more than the 1, 000 she had hoped for.
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That helps explain why we have not seen the grand overhaul some hoped for.
The RE components were around 12% more profitable than even they had hoped for.
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We have less of all of these things because we hoped for too much from government.
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That's far short of the 1, 000 digital screens they had hoped for by now.
Paleontologists, meanwhile, hoped for stronger, clearer regulations or formalized collaboration between scientists and dealers.
Damage was far worse for the Internet stocks--exactly the result Ballmer had hoped for.
With Chavez's death, some have hoped for a change in the US-Venezuela relationship.
Sure enough, customer adoption was lower than hoped for, and cash was flying out the door.
Suddenly, the picture is not at all what the Fed chairman had hoped for.
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You hoped for an exit that reflected your life, you succeeded this as well.
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The lawmakers had hoped for a unified recommendation from the chamber and the labor organization.
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But even Capital One could not have hoped for such an unlikely climax to the tournament.
But having hoped for a dessert-spoonful of tax cuts, the opposition allowed him just a teaspoonful.
Perhaps the best that can be hoped for is that tensions will be eased.
If your results aren't all you hoped for, it isn't the end of the world.
But the price is still well below the level Google's bosses had hoped for.
British troops remained on standby but the situation was "better than anybody could have hoped for".
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he hoped for co-operation to root out what he called terrorist sanctuaries.
The Indian prime minister said he hoped for a "new course" in relations between India and Pakistan.
Those are the phone calls both dreaded and hoped for among the families of Sept. 11 victims.
The Pilgrim Fathers hoped for an earthly paradise without the sin and selfishness of the Old World.
Finally, in May last year, she got the call she'd hoped for -- the mystery was solved.
And the kind of response we dreamed of, and hoped for, that is exactly what we're getting.
In his Christmas message, Mr Cameron said he hoped for an election "free from fake political dividing lines".
This is a year later than Nasa had hoped for, but still inside its March 2015 absolute deadline.
It also sets a shorter time limit for filing grievances, and requires less external oversight than hoped for.
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