A string of dashed hopes over deals with South Korea, Morocco and most recently Brazil have confounded French leaders, despite last year's military intervention in Libya having acted as a showcase for the Rafale.
"They referred to the book, or to the author's voice; and they tended to pick out a string of scenes and hope that something inherent in the story would hold it all together.
Of headlines splattered across newspapers announcing certain nations had secured their borders to limit the influx of people pouring in, clinging to a single tattered string of hope.
Ms. Phillips actually opens "James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon" with a string of exotic vignettes, hoping to hint at the rampant eccentricity of her highly changeable subject.
When Jason, 15, was ordered to the Oakley Training School in March after a string of burglaries, he hoped to get treatment for his bipolar disorder, which relatives say arose from sexual abuse he suffered at age 3.
Like much of life, the house-hunting process turned out to be a string of butterfly-high hopes followed by canyons of disappointment.
The delegation found evidence of a string of gross violations, giving hope to campaigners that the watchdog would act.
Joseph Estrada told a meeting of his supporters in the capital, Manila, that he was still the elected president.Yoshiro Mori, Japan's prime minister, apologised to the Diet for a string of recent scandals.Faith, hope, charityPresident George Bush announced plans to set up a new White House office to distribute billions of dollars over ten years to religious groups for charitable and social work.
But the reasoning for the decision by the appeal committee will be seen as an embarrassment at a time when Fifa is trying to implement a string of reforms that it hopes will maintain its victim status in the eyes of the US Department of Justice and the Swiss Attorney General.
When winter sports show The Jump earned its moniker of the most dangerous programme on television after a string of celebrity accidents, Monkey hoped the bad luck dogging the programme's producers Two Four would not transfer to their new ITV car show Drive.
