Bono has said that the hopeful message of this song is especially meaningful during these difficult times.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

She says she cannot think of a more efficient, hopeful or fair machine, except maybe the bicycle.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Democratic leaders say they are hopeful that some good will come out of the meeting.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

As the election of 1840 drew closer, the Whig Party felt more and more hopeful that it could put its candidate in the White House.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

But the director of international law programs at Southern Illinois University is more hopeful.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

But Doctor Misra is hopeful that the spread of obesity can be slowed.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Mr.Van Ransselaer says he is hopeful about the future of foreign archeology there.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Lowell imagined them as the hopeful engineers of great works.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

His son is more hopeful. "The future of the industry is very much connected to the future of the lakes.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

"We have received positive indications and we are hopeful that we are about to start now a process of negotiation."

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

It was reached based on a clear and hopeful vision of what can be accomplished here.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

However,the justice was clear that the full glory of the night belonged to the hopeful graduates.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

He says the new Obama war strategy, which also includes a major rehaul of civilian development projects, sounds like a hopeful change from the past.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

The president said Ramadan is a time for people of all faiths to recommit themselves to the work of building a better and more hopeful world.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

In testimony to Congress this week, U.S.Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke agreed with economists who caution that despite hopeful predictions of moderately strong economic growth unemployment is likely to remain high well into 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

"Even though we have slowed the loss of jobs,and today's report on the continued decline in unemployment claims is a hopeful sign, the economic growth that we have seen has not led to the job growth that we desperately need,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

The admiral says the situation in Iraq seemed impossible to resolve a few years ago, and,although the two countries are very different,and progress in Iraq is not a guarantee of progress in Afghanistan, it does give him reason to be hopeful about Afghanistan - even during the current period of heavy violence and at best,slow progress.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22