Annette Flanagin and Joe Wislar said they were pleased about the decrease but had hoped it would be larger.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

That's why we wish--maybe some of us believe, but at the very least the rest of us, many of us hoped--there were souls, so that death wouldn't have to be the end.

这就是为什么我们会希望，也许我们有人相信，但我们之中其他人，我们中的多数人希望有灵魂的存在，那样死亡就不是终结了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And Tyler - a Whig - hoped that Calhoun might be able to get him nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

People hoped that President Taylor would be able to bring the North and South together again.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

He tried to be neutral. He hoped the problem would solve itself.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He hoped the Union commander, McClellan, would be fooled by this plan.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

He hoped that could be done slowly, during peacetime.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

He said he hoped it would end soon. Buchanan said the dispute could be settled easily by doing two things: by ending interference with slavery in states where it was legal.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

He said he hoped to be in Heaven.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

This time,they hoped, things would be different.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Many had hoped she would be freed late this month, when the current order for her detention was to expire.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

Without drinking water, Victoria Switzer says, the house she hoped her grandchildren would visit won't be livable or saleable.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Victoria Switzer and her husband, are building what they hoped would be their retirement home in the rural hamlet of Dimock,Pennsylvania, in the eastern U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

(Speaking) He promised the Kurdish government would do its best to ensure the security of elections, which he said he hoped would be transparent, democratic,and honest.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

He said he did not know Demjanjuk personally. He hoped Demjanjuk would be sentenced if he was found guilty, but he is not looking for revenge.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

"This year,however, there were some very promising clinical results that indicate that it may be starting to work the way that people always hoped that it would.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Turkish President Gul told Talabani that he hoped that with the support of Iraqi leaders, especially those from Kurdistan, it would be possible to eliminate the cross-border activities of the PKK.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Saying the Senate stands at a historic moment, Dodd took note of the fact that the final bill is not all that many Democrats hoped it would be, but said it is a foundation that will be improved upon.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24