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But several officials saw the meeting as a hopeful sign.

So I guess that could be taken as a hopeful sign.

And there have been hopeful signs about the program in the future.

Despite the problems, there have been hopeful signs as well.

But in general, the material went over, a hopeful sign for the future.

American military officials view the recent return of several hundred families as a hopeful sign, though.

"People are looking to that and seeing a hopeful sign."

There are a number of hopeful signs in this report.

For all of that, party leaders saw some hopeful signs last week.

But he said the new confession is a hopeful sign.

There are very few hopeful signs of change on that front.

It was the first hopeful sign since we had entered the house.

That so many of them could even feel their pain was, I supposed, a hopeful sign.

The commissioner's side has taken that as a hopeful sign.

Despite hopeful signs from the oil industry, the city is not out of the woods.

And yet, there are hopeful signs that the worst is over.

But most was for accounting changes, and there were hopeful signs.

It was a hopeful sign, though this fact by itself guaranteed nothing.

But the mere fact that he had lived through the night was a hopeful sign.

"It's very important for the Group of 24 industrialized countries to give the outside world a hopeful sign."

In commercial banking, hopeful signs could not come soon enough.

I was inclined to view Husband's presence as a hopeful sign.

Hard as it is to believe, there are hopeful signs in Nigeria.

There are hopeful signs that the West is waking up.

Of course that might be construed as a hopeful sign.