We're hoping for the best, but the information so far is not looking good.
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Instead, the region is hoping for the best - and beginning to plan for the worst.
As the stimulus bill rolls toward passage, I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.
But we'll come up, you'll see - we're always hoping for the best.
For now, rank-and-file workers are wary and hoping for the best, McIntosh said.
The elder Mr. Regan is expecting the worst and hoping for the best.
Part of being a parent is letting go and hoping for the best.
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As Americans, we have a responsibility to keep hoping for the best and to support the president whenever we can.
So should you go for the variable rate, hoping for the best?
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I'd wander around the pantry looking for things that might taste good with meat and throw them in the blender, hoping for the best.
"We're hoping for the best and preparing for whatever, " he says.
We are hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.
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In a major speech outlining Labour's economic policy, he said acting now to counter the slowdown was a better option than just "hoping for the best".
But you don't need to be an economic historian to know that it is also wise, while hoping for the best, to plan for the worst.
It may seem as if optimism is a good thing, but a little too much hoping for the best rather than working for it can cause problems.
At this stage we are just going in hoping for the best but it is difficult to say if we can do better than we did in 1999.
Lagarde and her European colleagues will continue to rally in support around the PIIGS, hoping for the best with austerity plans and preparing for the worst with bailout options.
But 49% admitted not putting in as much revision as they thought they should, with 14% saying their revision consisted of a quick flick through their notes and hoping for the best.
"We are very concerned, as many people would be, and we're just hoping for the best and that our community will be spared from any violence in the long term, " he told CNN.
"We haven't had any proof of life, we haven't had any usage of his bank cards or his telephone so we are fearing the worst, but hoping for the best, " he said on Thursday.
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If running an internet ad campaign becomes just a matter of asking for 50 million slots and hoping for the best then where is all the budget for the high paid and interesting jobs in doing the tracking of the consumers?
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More than just shooting off a couple of emails and hoping for the best, your team for 2012 will rely on you to think outside of the box as well as inside at some of the common sense bits that get overlooked.
As the lights went down one last time, Ebert would have loved it if all those people sitting in the dark and hoping for the best understood that his approach to movies was big enough, openhearted enough to embrace far more than the movies he'd loved all his life.
Both teams knew victory would ensure outright qualification for the World Cup finals - a draw being enough for the visitors - but defeat would leave them hoping for at best a play-off and possibly facing an exit from the competition.
"It's the best practise possible for the team and we're hoping we'll do very nicely, " he said.
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China's readiness to use fiscal lubrication is the best reason for hoping that its economic motor will not stall.
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With this in mind, the evidence that urban education is moving, ever so gradually, upwards is maybe the best news for those hoping to bring businesses back downtown.
The only thing they are hoping for is that they get to use their own money to defend themselves with the best attorneys their money can buy.
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Now the best team in the country is playing for the national championship and hoping it got its bad hair day out of the way.
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