Yet she wanted to do more. She hoped to establish a school for black pilots in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

In the American Civil War, the North hoped for a quick victory by capturing the southern capital at Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

A military spokesman told VOA that the army hoped to free all civilians trapped in rebel territory by Sunday.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

The Colonization Society hoped these negroes would use their skills to help improve life for the people of Africa.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

A farmer in Zambia said he hoped to have enough money in three years to buy a diesel-powered pump.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Lincoln hoped his words might ease the sorrow over the loss of these men and lift the spirit of the nation.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

He was just days from launching what he hoped would be a comeback a series of fifty concerts in London.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

She hoped women would have jobs at every level of the industry when flying became a common form of transportation.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Annette Flanagin and Joe Wislar said they were pleased about the decrease but had hoped it would be larger.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

But some historians suggest that the inclusion of opponents may not have been as smart an idea as Lincoln had hoped.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

By selling it to the government, the mining interests hoped to keep the price of silver from falling.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Yet pro-democracy reformists say the changes have not brought the freedom and justice for which many had hoped.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

She said she hoped that the new president could help lead the way to better relations among the nations of the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

She said she did not have to act like a white woman that Hollywood hoped she would become.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

I work at home so I just hoped that my computer would work right and not have a bad hair day also.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

For many centuries, navigators hoped they could find longitude by observing the movement of stars at night.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

They hoped the delay would give reasonable men of the North and South time to find a permanent answer to the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

He hoped this would unite the party and give him support in the difficult years ahead.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Gemini,it was hoped, would move America closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

People hoped that President Taylor would be able to bring the North and South together again.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

A few lawmakers hoped President Buchanan, in his yearly message to Congress, might propose a compromise.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

And Tyler - a Whig - hoped that Calhoun might be able to get him nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Others came from other countries and hoped to build new lives in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.15