The last hope of getting spectrum legislation this year was extinguished on Thursday.
Moreover, western governments desperately want Ukraine to succeed and see the westward-looking Mr Yushchenko, whose wife happens to be American, as just about the last hope.
This is all happening at a time when the rest of the world is looking to the Chinese consumer as the last hope for the global economy.
Yet for all the factors working against any sort of agreement in Kyoto, the last hope of controlling that change may depend on what happens there this week.
The setting highlights the fundamental interchangeability of rebels and federation in any space opera: this time around, your ship is the last hope of the Federation, fighting through rebel-occupied sectors with vital intelligence.
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"The last game I hope will be throwing the last pitch in the World Series, " he said.
When he referred to this country as the last best hope of earth.
Leaders of the organized-labor movement already view service workers with nonexportable jobs as the last best hope of labor unions whose membership is at an all-time low.
Yesterday was a dark day for gaming, as evidenced by the internet being flooded with lamentations of how the last great white hope of games has succumbed to the dark side.
However, Francois Steyn gave the Springboks some hope with the last action of the half when he converted a long-range penalty to make up for an earlier miss.
They have convinced the Justice Department that Java and Netscape are the last, best hope of destroying Microsoft's hegemony.
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Mr. Greenberg wonders whether he is helping to undermine a profession "that offers the last and only hope for some patients" with psychosis and other severe disorders.
As you may recall from Greek mythology, when Pandora opened her box in 2007, after all the evil had been released, the last symbol of hope remaining inside was a food truck.
Replacement Scarlets hooker Ken Owens was sent to the sin bin for failing to wrap his arm around in a tackle on Jason Tovey to give the visitors some hope going into the last 10 minutes.
The visitors hung on against more furious Scarlets play, then gave themselves hope with the last kick of the half, a fine 47m Humphreys penalty after opposite-number Priestland went over the top at a ruck.
Captain Emmanuel Adebayor scored the opening goal in the 32nd minute to give his team hope of reaching the last eight for the first time, needing only a draw in Wednesday's match against Tunisia.
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The Soviets at last understood that the best they could hope for was to be allowed to reform their system, not to impose it on the rest of the world.
The archaeologists hope this last find may provide them with clues as to how the inhabitants of the Tajin site lived.
The bank have been very supportive during my period as chairman over the last five years and we would hope that they would continue to support the club, particularly as it is such an important part of the local community and Kilmarnock has suffered so much due to loss of jobs and unemployment.
But for him, that is a far smaller hurdle than what awaits if he wins: one last chance to live up to the hope that ushered him into office, one last chance to earn the prize he has already won.
Striking through that last graph in the hope that Dow Jones has the more correct take.
Consumer spending is the last, and only, hope for a revival in our economic fortune.
In the last month, however, hope in this hockey-gaga city of half a million has reached a new high.
The hope was born last year, with the publication of a study by Ron Brakke, a Dallas-based animal-health consultant.
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In December last year, the hope was that Davy Jones would be on line and producing by the end of 2011.
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And over the last few days, I hope we can build on our past progress and strengthen the global economy for a long time to come.
But the current market meltdown means many buyouts made with lots of debt in the last three years have little hope of ever making a profit or breaking even.
When history books are written on the last several years my only hope is that proper credit is given to the creative financing which was the direct catalyst for the stock market bottom and subsequent rise.
"It is South Wales Police's job to prepare for any eventuality, and we have done that, but I truly believe that fans have matured over the last decade or more and hope the event passes without any serious incident, " he said.
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