They will not disappoint.

It brought us hope.

Morley sings Women of Hope

The shine has similarly worn off the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China).

Shimon Schocken's rides of hope

One woman no longer believes love will ever find her.

Yet there is perhaps a silver lining in the clouds over New Orleans.

I lost hope in freedom of the press in Jordan a long time ago.

I remember the hope among people after Aoun visited Geagea in prison and how everything turned south afterwards.

Frustrated by their lack of success, the Gibbs decided to return to England in late 1966.

Many people believe, in fact, that death begins in the eyes, not in the heart, not in the lungs, and that's when people give up hope, or when any life form gives up hope.

DAVOS The World Economic Forum s annual meeting in Davos has lost some of its pre crisis panache.

Ants vary in colour most ants are red or black, but a few species are green and some tropical species have a metallic lustre.

Out of Iraq Bloggers Caucus rounds up the reactions of some Iraqi bloggers under the title Iraqi Bloggers Losing Hope.

But if not an office, then where? flashed through my head. So I went down to the local police department and I said, Hi, I want to work for you.

One of these, and it's paradoxical because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers.

And in general, I got this sort of idea that the poor in the world lived lives that were wrought with suffering and sadness, devastation, hopelessness.

When Parfit does come to the question of what matters, his answer might seem surprisingly obvious.

Bassel isn t coming back and every day the hope that he will ever come back fades away. Maybe I need to start dealing with his disappearance rationally and logically.

It was hard to believe that what I had imagined was now built, permanent and had lost nothing in translation.

Yet, even as the luster of the China miracle dazzles the world, the Chinese seem loath leave behind their dark feelings of victimization.

Education is the key to giving strained populations hope for a better future. And hope is fundamental to negating the allure of extremism, in all of its forms.

We know that the principles and the rules, if we can figure them out in these sort of primitive organisms, the hope is that they will be applied to other human diseases and human behaviors as well.

It brings us that much closer to realizing the full potential of choice, to inspiring the hope and achieving the freedom that choice promises but doesn't always deliver.

But the prospect of war in Europe now seems like a remote threat, and the varnish of the EU s past success seems to have faded, even to those who have not forgotten the bloodstains beneath.

The Indo European root of the word hope is a stem, K E U we would spell it K E U it's pronounced koy and it is the same root from which the word curve comes from.

Israel could have embraced the Arab Spring as an opportunity, rather than as a profound risk. If Arab citizens could transform their culture of humiliation into a culture of hope, perhaps they would be able to reconcile themselves with Israel s existence.

And people had hope, yes, but until they realized their situation worsens every day either because they are being killed or because, somehow, they are poorer than eight years ago.

For a time, we shared the stage with our distant cousins, Neanderthal, who clearly had some spark of awareness, but whether it was the increase in the size of the brain, or the development of language, or some other evolutionary catalyst we quickly left Neanderthal gasping for survival.

In this captivating talk from the TED archive, cartoonist Ben Katchor reads from his comic strips. These perceptive, surreal stories find the profound hopes and foibles of history preserved in objects like light switches and signs.

The fourth big opportunity is supporting countries in transition. This year s dramatic events in North Africa and the Middle East inspired people around the globe.

Fortunately, the US and Chinese economies are underpinned by societies that remain dynamic, vibrant, and hopeful. Young people in other parts of Asia, especially India and the ten ASEAN countries, are similarly optimistic as well they should be.

Until September, Medvedev made great efforts to encourage hopes for change. But Putin never lost control over the governmental apparatus, and the prospect of his regaining the presidency never dimmed.

Providing the refugees with an education would cost around 500 a year less than 10 a week per pupil. That is a small price to pay for hope.

And yet, if I just allowed myself to be overwhelmed by these feelings, I wouldn't be doing my job because I have to actually be there for them and make sure that rituals happen, that practicalities are seen to.

So, Sarah and I my wife walked over to the public library, which is four blocks away, on Pacific Street, and we got the OED, and we looked in there, and there are 14 definitions of hope, none of which really hits you between the eyes as being the appropriate one.

Perhaps America, and especially Bush, will be persuaded to join the rest of the world in the fight against poverty and to protect our planet s environment. In facing and planning for disasters, whether natural or man made, we must do more than hope and pray for the best.

But what I'm more concerned about in many ways is that, as we de link ourselves from nature, as we de link ourselves spiritually from these animals, we lose hope, we lose that spiritual connection, our dignity, that thing within us that keeps us connected to the planet.

It is said that you can survive 40 days without food, eight days without water, and eight minutes without air, but not for a second without hope. Like many of the young refugees in Lebanon, Dilan and Ahmad are losing hope that they will ever be able to attend school again.

Moreover, the north s troubles are only part of a wider national story of surging unemployment, restless young people, endemic corruption, and a growing sense of hopelessness. Jonathan appears to be incapable of tackling the official corruption that, as the US report emphasized, pervades all sectors, from the police to the courts.

When Parfit does come to the question of what matters, his answer might seem surprisingly obvious. He tells us, for example, that what matters most now is that we rich people give up some of our luxuries, ceasing to overheat the Earth s atmosphere, and taking care of this planet in other ways, so that it continues to support intelligent life.

More recently, Harvey Cushing, who really developed neurosurgery as we know it, who changed it from a field of medicine that had a majority of deaths resulting from surgery to one in which there was a hopeful outlook, he was very conscious that he was not always going to do the right thing.