Suppose the bill cleared the Commons (an optimistic thought) it would still run into sand in the Lords.
Asked if this meant the government was no further forward in fixing the UK's economy than when it started, he said underlying structural problems had been worse than initially thought and he was now "less optimistic" about its long-term ability to bounce back.
But Mr Fine, of Hunters estate agents, said he thought a 25% increase was a bit optimistic.
What you might regard as an optimistic note is the degree of thought and debate that's going into the issue of how to regulate geoengineering research before it happens.
Nice thought, although it's maybe a bit optimistic to talk about the crash as history just yet.
After living in the UK for the last 10 years, I tried to be optimistic on England's behalf and thought they might actually front up against South Africa.
Responses were evenly split between those who predict consumers will spend more and those who expect less holiday spending. (A smaller group thought sales would be flat.) Those who are optimistic cited pent-up demand, greater confidence among those who have jobs and the recent returns charted by retail stocks.
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Anybody who thought the current coalition government would last was being far too optimistic.
Firms thought that current business conditions had got a bit better and were more optimistic about the next six months.
Kinross paid a premium when it obtained Red Back last year, with company officials at the time optimistic that expansion of Tasiast ultimately would yield more gold than many analysts thought.
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Perish the thought, say senior Spanish officials: there are no more secrets in the banks, and the optimistic outlook rests on the predicted success of recent reforms (eg, to make the labour market more flexible) and scores of new ones to be adopted in the coming year.
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