One hopeful sign is the gradual increase in prices for residential homes throughout the United States.
Narrow losses -- which still add to a candidate's delegate total -- could keep more than one hopeful in contention.
One hopeful sign for taxpayers: In most categories, audits have declined recently.
One hopeful is Steve Stivers, running for a district that includes most of Columbus, the capital, and a big swathe of suburbia.
But there was one hopeful moment as CNN was interviewing him.
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One hopeful example is the municipality of Laktasi, near Banja Luka.
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.
"I already have a masters degree in physics and astrophysics a PhD in astronomy, I'm a scuba diver, I speak basic beginner's to advanced Russian, and I have flying experience, " one hopeful, Tracy Parker, tells CNN.
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 relatively hopeful sign has been the unemployment rate, until today.
In five days of Olympic competition, Britons had been collectively holding their breath, watching as one Olympic hopeful after another failed to win a gold medal.
One mayoral hopeful, former City Council Member Sal Albanese, a Democrat who is polling lower than Mr. Liu, urged the comptroller to drop out of the race.
One Democratic hopeful, Howard Dean, the ex-governor of Vermont, has attracted the interest of many Arab-Americans by calling on America to be more impartial in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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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My message is a hopeful one that can unite our country around a common cause.
John McCain, the one Republican presidential hopeful among the five, used the hearings to highlight the consequences of pulling troops out of Iraq.
And it sets up the final struggle between the prison group and the Woodburians, ending on both a surprisingly tragic note and a surprisingly hopeful one.
One of the most hopeful signs I came across was inside Johnny White's sports bar.
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Zoo officials are hopeful this one will become the third giant panda born in the US to survive into adulthood.
In Division One, Wellington remain hopeful of gaining promotion but they suffered a heavy defeat against Dorridge in their first match.
Jones remains hopeful that one or other will be fit for Sunday's match, but hopes to make a more detailed assessment when the squad reconvenes on Friday after recovering from the Baggies game.
Bedingfield, for one, is still hopeful.
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The next five-day game scheduled for Manchester is not until 2014, but the county are hopeful of landing one of three 2013 Ashes Tests that have yet to be allocated.
But her journey since then remains one of the most remarkable and hopeful stories I have heard.
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One worker said that she was hopeful unions would help fight for better wages and set strict limits on overtime.
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Ipswich are three points behind sixth-placed Wolves in the Division One table and Holland is still hopeful the Suffolk club can achieve promotion via the play-offs.
Now they are hopeful that the technique could one day be used to protect human oocytes against the ravages of cancer treatments.
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