These are the facts on the ground that doom Palestinian hopes for a sovereign Palestinian state no less than Israeli hopes for a wholly Jewish state.

Some of those hopes were fulfilled.

Nevertheless, profound economic and political transformation in Latin America has masked a deep disparity between reforms and reality indeed, between hopes and their fulfillment.

Banking on the IMF

So far, these hopes have been dashed.

RS That's one of the idealistic hopes.

But even skeptics nourish many hopes.

Bo certainly did not disappoint.

At last, the world must recognize that the hopes stirred by the 1990 s peace process have been completely dashed.

As a result, an administration in which many had placed high hopes is lapsing into demagoguery and ineffectiveness.

However, the politics of frustration, of ambitions raised and then thwarted, is clearly one such cause.

Yet the document that they will now vote on is more likely to dash those hopes and dim Egyptians prospects for democracy.

Such actions undertaken by the Armenian side do not comply with the spirit of negotiations, in the framework of which positive hopes have been strengthened recently.

But don't hold your breath.

These hopes have proven illusory.

But, in each case, those hopes were dashed.

Hence, their expectations were met.

Canada will do its part to respond to those expectations.

Back then, Afghanistan s people held great hopes for an immediately wonderful future.

The world has a lot riding on America s election.

There are two hopes for avoiding this disastrous outcome.

However, since 2000, hopes have been gradually fading.

The situation in the territory, characterized by poverty, unemployment and violence, was deteriorating steadily, making slimmer any hopes placed by the Palestinian people in the road map.

A new, wide ranging free trade agreement, with Latin America at its heart, would be an excellent way to realize these hopes.

The prospects of a stable future look increasingly dim.

In Davos this year, great hopes have given way to great apprehensions.

Our discussion on the question of Palestine this year leaves us with mixed feelings of hope and an awareness of the challenges that lie ahead.

But the onset of opportunities and the fulfilment of hopes must be based on mutual trust.

The best example is US President Barack Obama, on whom so many hopes rested probably too many for any one leader.

But these hopes were dashed as international lending dried up and trade collapsed, sending developing countries down the same spiral that industrial nations took.

As one participant put it, this view is the result of the politics of expectation the expectations of this summit were much higher and much more wide ranging than what is contained in the draft outcome document.

This expectation is an inevitable consequence of Turkey s geography and history.

But as hopes of integration with the West wane, so a feeling of exclusion is growing.

Expectations and confidence in democracy, the market economy, and the larger European project have suffered as well.

Hopes were high that he would deliver progress against the extraordinary poverty.

When Barack Obama was elected US president, there was hope for progress.

Hopes that a popular uprising might topple the regime have fizzled.

Information and communications technology (ICT) has long been hailed as a harbinger of a global change.

have been unearthed. In this broader context the expectations on the CD are truly high.

As a result of those expectations, despite the present environment in which families have been undergoing tremendous and rapid changes, Governments have given increased emphasis to strengthening and empowering families.

The hopes raised by the announcement of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza were disappointed by its continuing policies concerning the settlement of the West Bank and the construction of the wall.

First Georgia, then Ukraine, and most recently Moldova have all been big EU hopes.

There is more fear today in the West, but also a little less hope in Asia.

On the one hand, certain hopes and opportunities exist, and the General Assembly is convened on the basis of those hopes.

What we call terrorism has many causes, and one must beware of facile explanations. However, the politics of frustration, of ambitions raised and then thwarted, is clearly one such cause.