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How to use the word hoped-for in a Sentence? Page #3

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We've always assumed we would lose a vehicle every so often, having three this close together is not what we'd hoped for.

Michael Suffredini

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Given our expectations it was a little lighter than we had hoped for.

Jeff Goldstein

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

What we had hoped for with the bill was a message of inclusion -- inclusion of all religious beliefs, what instead has come out is a message of exclusion and that was not the intent and hopefully not the effect. But to the extent that it is we are intent on righting that.

Brian Bosma

Found on CNN
9 years ago

What we had hoped for with the bill was a message of inclusion, inclusion of all religious beliefs, what instead has come out as a message of exclusion, and that was not the intent.

Brian Bosma

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's a bigger treatment effect than we had hoped for.

Alfred Sandrock

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's not the outcome we had hoped for but, obviously, it's the one we have to deal with, we'll analyze the vehicle, the bodies and hopefully we can come to some conclusion as to how they met their fate.

Telfair County

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's been incredible, just incredible the amount of response. It’s everything we could have possibly hoped for, in the sense of people feeling like even though it's a movie it's accurate enough, and in terms of the emotional and sort of familial sort of sense of reality that it's completely accurate.

Bradley Cooper

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

While the outcome may not be what we had hoped for, I believe we have successfully sent the message that Nebraska citizens are willing to stand up.

Randy Thompson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

For crude, there's a structural change, going from fairly balanced to an oversupply, for products...demand has not collapsed, (it's) just a tendency of oversupply of refining capacity and slower demand than had hoped for.

Richard Gorry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

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10 years ago

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Epicurus

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1, The Bible (King James Version)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Epicurus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

New Testament

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14 years ago

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