Mr. Wolf, the Syosset accountant, became a client last year in the hope of breaking out of a career rut.
Yes, his team were superbly organised; but they did not cling merely to the hope of breaking out every 15 minutes in search of a set piece.
With hotels, food and flights to pay for, players have little hope of breaking even each week unless they advance far in a tournament.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, international auxiliary languages such as Interlingua and Esperanto were developed in the hope of breaking down language barriers across the globe.
In 2011 some members started another group, You Ask Atheists Answer, a forum that aims to facilitate discussions about atheism in the hope of breaking down hostile stereotypes.
In this uneasy setting, women are anonymous and love is an alien force with no hope of breaking through the singer's callousness.
At last year's New York City Marathon, the Ethiopian Bronx resident Buzunesh Deba entered with the hope of breaking the course record of 2 22 31.
But a new summit meeting only makes sense if there is a realistic hope of breaking the impasse over Jerusalem that halted the Camp David talks.
Eurozone finance ministers, known as the Eurogroup, are holding an emergency meeting in the hope of breaking the deadlock over Greece's debt crisis.
The best hope of breaking their grip may be the creation of a democracy caucus now being pushed by Chile, Poland, South Korea and the United States.
But it is no exaggeration to say that this is the only real hope of breaking the downward spiral of not just American politics but of American governance.
