Sentence examples similar to had hoped for progress from inspiring English sources
When it finally agreed, last September, to a set of principles that included getting rid of its nuclear programmes (a first public hint that it has dabbled with potentially bomb-useable uranium, as America insists, as well as plutonium) in return for security assurances and aid, America, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia may have hoped for progress at last.
"We had hoped for faster progress".
The chief executive of the Australian Conservation Foundation, Kelly O'Shanassy, said it had hoped for more progress towards cleaning up the "woefully dirty" national car fleet.
Before he left for the airport, Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told the BBC that they had hoped for more progress.
It's hardly surprising that we've not seen the progress many had hoped for.
"We are concerned because we are not seeing the progress that we had hoped for this week," he said in Geneva.
"They are as disturbed as I am that we haven't seen the kind of progress that we had hoped for," he said.
"Sadly, we have not made the progress that any of us had hoped for this season," said chairman Ellis Short.
The military gains have yet to be followed by the sort of major progress toward Iraq political reconciliation that Bush administration officials had hoped for.
