Major General WILLIAM CALDWELL (U.S. Military Spokesman): Although there is reason to be optimistic that this plan will succeed, it is important to acknowledge that it will not turn the security situation overnight.
It is still worth a try, although I am not vastly optimistic about it.
"This is not some naive, optimistic young man who has inherited a fortune and is about to blow it on some fantasy project on the north coast, " Mr Shaw said.
It is not every day that perma-bear Nouriel Roubini sounds relatively optimistic on macroeconomic matters.
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But BBC NI health correspondent Dot Kirby is not optimistic that local health chiefs will give it the go-ahead.
Even Mr Cameron must find it hard to be optimistic about that prospect: Mr Putin is not famed for his openness.
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Another vote is scheduled for late Friday, but I am not optimistic that it will mean much.
While the company is better off now that it's with Polycom, I'm still not too optimistic.
Short-dated futures responded more to this less optimistic forward-looking indicator than to the inflation reading given that it is not only backwards looking but also based on the fact that the ECB has already shown its readiness to raise rates on inflation grounds.
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"I am not an economist, but I am optimistic our business is coming back just like it did in the last recession, " Staples Chief Executive Ron Sargent said during the call.
It is not a given they will get their (200 or so) new users, but I would be optimistic that they will exceed that number.
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Zimring insists, plausibly, that he is offering a radical and optimistic rewriting of theories of what crime is and where criminals are, not least because it disconnects crime and minorities.
Nevertheless, Dr Menon is optimistic that the design will work not only for data storage, but eventually, once it includes bricks containing banks of processors as well as hard drives, for general-purpose computers as well.
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