The Lib Dems have faced an onslaught of voter anger over the past year, over the U-turn on tuition fees and support for spending cuts - and saw a long-cherished dream of changing the UK voting system dashed, when the AV referendum resulted in a resounding "no" from the electorate.
But as in any other walk of life, it is sad to see a long-cherished dream go unfulfilled.
Before starting my firm (a life-long dream), I ran marketing for GE Capital, Schroders, Scudder, Citicorp Investment Bank and Columbia Business School.
The engine is for the Skylon project, an ambitious scheme for a craft that would realise a long-cherished dream: to fly non-stop from airport to cosmos.
The 28-year-old, who has won the Champ Car title for the last three years, made the decision to fulfil a long-held dream to race in F1.
For Linda Rabinovich of Baltimore, attending the Yoga Journal Conference in New York City earlier this month was a long-held dream but not one easy to realize.
"It has been a long-time dream for all optical researchers to reach the terabit per second mark, " says Kuwahara Hideo, one of the 20 researchers at the Fujitsu lab.
Does this mean that the secretive society, founded in Egypt in 1928 and a wellspring of Sunni Islamist ideology ever since, is on the verge of fulfilling a long-thwarted dream?
Nonetheless, she was the first Pole to contest a grand slam final since the Open Era began in 1968 -- even if her defeat meant she missed out on a long-held dream.
Making cars, as the other big chaebol do, was a long-time dream of Samsung's chairman, Lee Kun Hee, and the company has been taking out newspaper ads swearing it would not give it up.
Such mining has been a long-held marketing dream, and pulling it off would be a very big deal.
The lessons that carry me and serve as the foundation of my work come from a long history of people that had a dream based on a strong love for their children and principle of giving and serving others.
It had long been a dream of the company's cofounder, engineer Alfred W. Fielding.
At Upside, I had a dream of publishing long, Playboy-style interviews with tech titans and venture capitalists.
It is a long way from the original dream of click 'n borrow, but then the Internet was never going to change business in predictable ways.
Yet this situation seemed a pipe dream not so long ago: Iraq's security forces, serving an elected government, assume primary responsibility for the good order of their own country.
The journey to reach the American dream is a long and difficult one, but now that I am here, I am so thankful for the life that my parents provided for me here in America.
With her skin pallor verging on translucence, and a long, tigerish mane, she could be a Victorian dream of the untouchable, and you can picture Millais and Rossetti dropping their brushes at the sight of her.
The first in a long chain of shoes dropping as the crowd-funding dream slowly transforms into a nightmare?
"It has been a long time coming, " he said, describing his move as a "dream".
"It's been a dream of mine for a long time, " Wallenda told CNN before the Niagara Falls attempt.
Even trying to realise that unrealistic dream represents a large and long-term commitment.
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It is a dream we had for a long time.
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The initiative sidesteps a years-long stalemate in Congress over the Dream Act, draft legislation designed to legalize undocumented young people that has been ensnared in a broader debate about immigration overhaul.
No idea how long I was down, but a dream and a half later I found myself on my knees, my face on fire, holding in my hands not the milk but a huge Yale padlock.
He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
It is a dream of mine, something I have held for a long time.
The stall tactic will work for as long as people sleep through the details and dream of a solution.
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