It was hoped that the report would defuse the hostilities between Japan and China and would thus help maintain peace and stability in the Far East.

He hoped that that would again be the case.

It is hoped that this will also benefit the emancipation of female students.

True, those walls did not work as well as had been hoped, but Japan was nonetheless much better prepared for a tsunami than Padang is.

It is hoped that similar facilities will open in other regions.

It is hoped that a memorandum of understanding can be quickly finalized with Kenya.

It might have been hoped that the bank supervisors who stress tested the banks would try to estimate the size of the banks losses on toxic assets.

It was hoped that 35,000 would return by the end of the year.

And if there is one tremendous if there is one great catastrophe about the places that we've built, the human environments we've made for ourselves in the last 50 years, it is that it has deprived us of the ability to live in a hopeful present.

The target audience was the Board, but it was hoped that other stakeholders would also be reached.

However, it is hoped that a proposal will be submitted by the end of September 2005.

It was to be hoped that any judgements given would be seen as an act of justice, not just a mere procedure.

It was hoped that the United Nations Democracy Fund would provide grants which complemented that good work.

It is hoped that that will be done before the end of August 2005.

It is hoped that with the completion of the project, the situation will be positively changed and that the dropout rate will be reduced.

It is hoped that rapid progress in that relationship will be achieved in that phase.

It is hoped that the best will not be sacrificed to the good.

It hoped that those improvements would lead to effective changes in application.

It was hoped that Governments in the region would contribute resources and technical assistance so that UNODC would be able to increase its activities.

In 2004 Germany ranked thirtieth in the world in life expectancy (78 years for men).

It is hoped that this concession will soon be extended to all African countries.

It is hoped that organized repatriation of Sudanese refugees to southern Sudan will start in the coming months.

He hoped that the draft resolution would be adopted without a vote, as in previous years.

It was to be hoped that the Conference would take into account the serious concerns of the countries of the African continent.

In time, however, the changes might amount to less than was first hoped, and could actually bring about a situation that arguably is worse than the status quo ante (the French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Iranian Revolution come to mind).

In the longer term, it is hoped that carbon capture and sequestration will lead to zero emissions fossil fuel energy systems.

It is the sixtieth anniversary of the first, and hopefully only, uses of nuclear weapons, at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It is envisaged that this project will lead to the development of a national Science and Technology Databank for the country.

It is hoped that with this information, Member States will be able to better track the various initiatives that are under way.

More years must not be lost it was to be hoped that the compromise would lead to completion of the work in 2006, as planned.

Strong support was expressed for the proposal that the secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention work with the secretariat of the Stockholm Convention on the study on synergies, which it was hoped would indicate ways for increased efficiency of the secretariats.

Those developments are indicative of the hopeful trend that we have spoken of since the beginning of the year, but there are other trends too.

The Chinese delegation hoped that the future deliberations of that body would be marked by additional effectiveness and pragmatism along with greater flexibility.

Although the figures are not broken down by sex, it is hoped that this and other data will be available in 2004.

It was to be hoped that, during its thirty second session, the Board would take a decision on the Cooperation Agreement either to continue it or not.

It was therefore to be hoped that, during the next replenishment of the Facility, contributions for financing the implementation of the Convention would increase significantly.

Nevertheless, eradication efforts in 2005 were not as successful as hoped and the total area eradicated this year has been limited.

It was to be hoped that consensus could be reached on the remaining bracketed areas and that the optional protocol could thus be finalized during the Sixtieth session.

It was to be hoped that at the Bali meeting the international community would show that it was determined to build up the capacities of the developing countries in order to enable them to develop without damaging the environment.

Hopefully, the full establishment of the Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED), under its able Executive Director, Mr. Javier Rupérez, would resolve the problem.

He hoped that, with the ratification of the Convention, specific measures would be taken to implement it and that substantial assistance would be provided to countries affected by desertification, particularly in Africa.

Cultural diversity was a great advantage in the field of human rights and she hoped that the proposed increase in OHCHR resources would enable its composition to be more geographically balanced.

It was to be hoped that those concerns would lead to real measures being adopted domestically by Russian politicians, who all too often remained silent in the face of such phenomena.

He hoped that the bureaux of UN Habitat and the Commission on Sustainable Development would be able to solve the problem of the scheduling of the Commission's thirteenth session and the twentieth session of the UN Habitat Governing Council.

It is hoped that those of us who achieved a full measure of self government in year's past, through independence, free association or integration, can provide useful insights for those who will follow.