Credibility and fairness are the basic economic issues voters care about, surely – along, of course, with a general hope for a better future.
The general hope was that Barry Ackroyd would get this for The Hurt Locker (and, by implication, all the other great films he's shot).
On the other hand, Luther's vehemence and forceful rhetoric were so compelling that, rightly or wrongly, his name came to be fused with the general hope of improvement in human affairs.
The best Croatia could do was send over free-kicks and corners in the general hope of finding Mario Mandzukic, only to succeed in picking out less accomplished finishers who missed the target every time.
(Plague of frogs? New ice age?) The general hope is that the combination of weak economic data, falling commodity prices, bank runs in Europe and signs of panic in developed market bond yields will force the central banks into easing action.
Since yesterday, a sign of the general hope that the U.S. will really help out — cardboard signs began appearing on street corners and in neighborhoods all over the city saying, in English, "We need help," usually followed by "Food-water-medicine".
