Given the factional nature of Korean politics, however, it is a faint hope.
To anyone who tracks America's budget debates, that is a faint hope.
But coming off the bottom of the table now looks a faint hope with the Dons seven points adrift of Killie with three games remaining.
Meehan is expecting a packed Parc des Sports Aguilera on Saturday as Bath go in search of a win that would give them a faint hope of Heineken Cup progress.
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This time the results were inconclusive but there's now a faint glimmer of hope.
Even though BP is in trouble, most sell-side analysts know the first rule of job preservation is to throw their support behind a beleaguered company in the faint hope that their firm may get a banking mandate if the company is the target of a takeover or is forced to sell itself.
On a recent Sunday morning, after services at the tiny Lebanon Lutheran Church in Amidon, local farmers talked about their plight with a mixture of exasperation and faint hope.
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The faint hope that NATO could negotiate a quick way out still beat in some hearts.
The fraying tempers do not augur well for the faint hope that still exists of launching a new round of multilateral trade talks this year.
One faint hope for the protestors lies with a local historian whose book claims that the Battle of Hastings was actually held on the route of the road near Crowhurst - a possibility dismissed as "ridiculous" by the council.
Faint though it is, there is a glimmer of hope in financial markets: interest rates on short-term loans between banks and on longer-term corporate debt have fallen notably since the autumn, and there has been a flood of new bond issues.
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