And with only about 7,000 new police officers expected to be trained this year, we are a long way from the hoped-for force of 50,000 skilled regular officers and 12,000 border officers.
The partnership and the hoped for residual force of American soldiers in the country are crucial to Afghanistan's survival, said a former senior government figure.
If the overall legislation wasn't as draconian as many critics of Wall Street had hoped for, it did force the banks to change the way they did business.
Maybe the general election next year will move the Republican candidate toward the center, but I'm hoping for another force to nudge them into the mainstream -- big business.
The coalition forces hoped for intelligence on who might be behind the attacks on the base, or at least enough support to make the village inhospitable to the enemy.
In Basra, a city whose capture the British and American forces had hoped for in the early days of the war, the situation was complex.
Some complainants clearly hoped for a ruling that would effectively force Germany to leave the euro.
This was not the outcome officials said they hoped for when they started a new housing enforcement program three years ago, which allowed the city to make repairs at severely distressed buildings and then, it was hoped, force landlords to pay for the work.
And the office itself has been likened to a form of political purgatory, with occupants passing time hoping for some outside force to elevate them.
"He was the most passionate leader one could hope for, a motivating force without parallel," wrote Steven Levy, author of the 1994 book "Insanely Great," which chronicles the creation of the Mac.
Many who pushed for the designation of "genocide" hoped to force a response from Washington.
