"Some have suggested in this campaign that Barack is guilty of raising 'false hopes, '" Kerry told a cheering crowd.

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Part of his job is to represent the alliance to the world: encouraging would-be members, without giving them false hopes.

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Jeff Bishop, from the Localism Network, said he thought the limitation of the bill could mean some communities entertained false hopes.

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The period has been described as a "holiday from history, " and I witnessed some of its false hopes and foolish assumptions for myself.

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Generations of fans from famously unlucky sports towns like Boston, Chicago and Cleveland grew up listening to somber yarns about curses, treachery, false hopes and heartbreak.

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America has endured many such false hopes in Pakistan.

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Second, private-sector decisions about saving and investment may sometimes be based on false hopes about profits and stockmarket returns hard to believe, given Wall Street's fine record these past few years, but true nonetheless.

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There are those who will continue to tell us that we can't do this, that we can't have what we're looking for, that we can't have what we want, that we're peddling false hopes.

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Because I prided myself on never having false hopes, on never permitting myself to imagine that things were better than they were, I asked myself whether I might be allowing the mirrors to deceive me.

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