Sentence examples for had hoped something from inspiring English sources

I had hoped something would have been learned from the Savile debacle," he said.

I had hoped for something purer.

Under Mr Najib people had hoped for something better.

They had hoped for something different given that while underground, the Islamists had emphasized the universal rights of man.

"We had hoped for something different," said Sophie Richardson, the China director of Human Rights Watch.

That reduction disappointed the stock market, which had hoped for something more.

These Afghans had hoped for something along the lines of the Americans' B-52 carpet-bombing in Vietnam.

Human rights activists and victims of Duvalier's notorious 15-year regime had hoped for something else: justice.

He had hoped for something more on this afternoon -- some of those kingfish, perhaps, or some stripers.

"We had hoped that something would come out of the trial about the baby, but nothing did," she said, holding up a laminated picture of her mother.

This is a dish unlikely to satisfy nervous investors and markets, who had hoped for something to calm their fears rather than to feed them.