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America, it turned out, was far less ready for a black president than his supporters expected (or hoped), exemplified in virulent attacks that exceed the norm for a president.
To be sure, many of us had hoped that the agreement would noticeably improve Iran’s relations with its neighbors and the US, and that has not happened.
During its first term, the Bush administration hoped that it could solve the North Korean nuclear problem through regime change.
While I hoped that they might be proven right, the recent stream of weak economic data, including May’s timid net job creation of only 69,000, confirmed my doubts.
It is to be hoped that Ukraine’s Russian-speaking citizens, having witnessed the economic despair – and sometimes the bloodshed – caused by the Kremlin’s manufactured pro-autonomy movements, will realize that they are being turned into Putin’s pawns.
India had never previously purchased an American fighter plane, and the United States hoped that India would cement the emerging bilateral strategic partnership with a hefty check.
There is a third force still in play, though much cursed, abused, misused but relied upon and hoped for - Western help.
It is to be hoped that Barack Obama, should he win America’s presidency, will recall the tolerant Indonesia where he grew up and shape policies toward it accordingly.
By the end of this year, it is to be hoped, the ECB will start to do its part by implementing quantitative and credit easing.
Moreover, their commitment to reduce the debt and balance the budget – on which their admission to the monetary union was based – proved to be far less meaningful than their European partners had hoped.
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.
Though China’s leadership will, it is hoped, lack the drama of 2009, President Xi Jinping will undoubtedly make an impression of his own.
While India’s government had briefly hoped that the proof might enable Pakistan’s weak civilian government to rein in the malign elements in its society, the Pakistani authorities’ reaction has been one of denial.
This, it was hoped, would solve the capital misallocation problem that seemed to be leading to an unsustainable rise in debt.
By increasing the maturity of the debt, the central government hoped to alleviate financing constraints on local governments and allow them to pursue financial stimulus.
The Pope was, therefore, right when he called for more love and was wrong when he hoped that people would listen.
It is to be hoped, of course, that things will not come to that.
Through the strategic deployment of Mecca, it is hoped that the region’s radicals – Iraqi Shi’a, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, and the Iranians – will undergo a kind of “healing” as they gain access to Islam’s holiest sites.
Although bilateral tensions began to build from 1998 onward, due to the Taliban’s refusal to turn over Osama bin Laden to Saudi Arabia (his homeland), the Kingdom still hoped that petro-dollar diplomacy might solve this problem.
Many companies and company boards hoped that this heightened interest would pass quickly; instead, it has matured.
With such efforts, Abbas hoped to underscore the real goals that must be pursued, countering Israeli attempts at diversion.
They might make more money if they hoard a little of their grain today and sell it later; and if they do not, they won’t be able to afford it if next year’s crop is smaller than hoped.
The Fed, it is to be hoped, is finally coming clean on the perils of asset-dependent growth and the long string of financial bubbles that has done great damage to the US economy over the past 20 years.
Both Musharraf and his supporters in Washington hoped that mainstream parties’ participation in the election would end Pakistan’s governance crisis and provide popular support for a decisive confrontation with the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Today, its economic links in Asia are deep, and – it is to be hoped – permanent.
And it is frightening to Americans, who until recently believed – or perhaps hoped – that they were living in a republic based on the traditions established by George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt.
The reason is clear: by taking time to set the stage for liberalization, governments hoped to limit the initial spike in price inflation, thereby avoiding a wage-price spiral and curbing capital flight.
It is to be hoped that it will not be overshadowed by calls in Congress for Japan to apologize more formally than it already has for the comfort women.
An $800 billion stimulus did not have the effect for which its proponents hoped, largely because it was accompanied by a big increase in private savings.
The high-handed tone of the Hull Note of November 26, demanding Japan’s withdrawal of all its troops from China, was a final blow to the moderates in Japan’s government, who still hoped for diplomatic negotiations.
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