One hopeful sign is the gradual increase in prices for residential homes throughout the United States.
The most hopeful sign is that some of the new financial companies seem willing to pitch in.
Republicans took from that a kind of dispassionate assessment of Keystone, which some regarded as a hopeful sign.
Then yesterday, he told the doctor he was Babe Ruth, a hopeful sign.
But it is at least a hopeful sign that people are now feeling partially confident to come back to work.
The most hopeful sign is that Delta expects to begin limited domestic flying at Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday afternoon.
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On one side it's a hopeful sign that we have a parliament in place that can help us govern the country constitutionally.
One hopeful sign for taxpayers: In most categories, audits have declined recently.
The vice president said that is a hopeful sign that the GOP would not allow the country to default on its debts.
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But the most hopeful sign is the surge in bank lending.
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Another hopeful sign was that, in a part of the world where respect for the law is skimpy, the elections themselves were pretty clean.
The editorial may be a hopeful sign as the international community tries to coax Pyongyang back to six-party negotiations aimed at ending its nuclear program.
Perhaps the most hopeful sign is that, in India, Mr Vajpayee seems to have public opinion with him in trying to make peace with Pakistan.
Reformers took this as a hopeful sign, but it was hardly surprising: when Mr Chen also sought American protection, the incident became a national embarrassment.
One relatively hopeful sign has been the unemployment rate, until today.
Word of the pope's reported support for civil unions in Argentina sparked debate, with some praising his stance and saying it was a hopeful sign of possible reforms.
But the iMac is a bold departure from the mediocrity that has marked the company's products in the 1990s, and a hopeful sign for millions of Mac fans.
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Later this week, Obama visits New Jersey where beachfront businesses are reopening after Superstorm Sandy, a hopeful sign for Oklahoma residents just now coming to grips with their own loss.
In one hopeful sign, an American oil and gas company has gone into partnership with the Eritrean government to explore the northern reaches of the country, where natural gas was found in the 1960s.
One last hopeful sign: The Bloomberg U.S. Truckload Trucking Index, consisting of companies like Heartland Express, Knight Transportation and Swift Transportation is up 12% since hitting 52-week lows on reports of rising rates.
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One hopeful sign: Thursday night's showcase at the Belmont in the Warehouse district featured a dream lineup including Alt-J, Atlas Genius, Frightened Rabbit, Guards and the Joy Formidable the kind of groups that might be associated with indie rock.
One hopeful sign: The Obama administration has promulgated a new model Bilateral Investment Treaty that, despite extraneous regulatory baggage it comes with, could well help guide U.S.-China efforts in the direct of more, not less, open investment across borders.
If that is the case and the increase in sales among private furniture and home furnishings retailers can be attributed at least in part to home staging, then that should be a hopeful sign that the housing market is picking up.
Another hopeful sign is that Mr Nastase's comparative popularity has weakened support for the opposition Greater Romania Party and its leader, Vadim Tudor, a sycophant in Ceausescu's court whose xenophobic nationalism won him 33% of the vote in last year's presidential election.
One of the player's contemporaries, John Fleck, has agreed on a new deal to remain at Rangers and the club are hopeful that Wilson will sign a contract extension to keep him at Ibrox beyond the end of next season.
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The decision won't have any immediate bearing on these policies, but some observers are hopeful that it may be a sign of things to come.
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Abbott is also hopeful that winger Lewis Neal will sign a long-term deal with the club after joining from Preston until the end of the season.
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