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As the night went on, the Sanders campaign's hopes of causing an upset in Colorado came to pass, although he lost Massachusetts by a 50-48 margin.

Championship opposition was much more easily overcome here as second-half goals from the impressive Sebastian Larsson and the lively James McClean extinguished Peterborough's hopes of causing an upset.

The campaign would quickly seek to cut off the country's leadership in Baghdad and a few other important command centers in hopes of causing a rapid collapse of the government, officials said.

Military planners said the immediate goals would be to break the Iraqi Army's will to fight, driving large number of troops to surrender or defect -- and offering them guarded sanctuary if they do -- while cutting off the leadership in Baghdad in hopes of causing a rapid collapse of the government of President Saddam Hussein.

Federer, scrambling back to retrieve a lob, almost conjures up an outrageous trick shot at 30-0, but his improvisation doesn't quite pay off and the ball trickles into the net, as do his hopes of causing any damage in this game.

Despite the defeat, Scotland will go into next Saturday's match against South Africa with much to be optimistic about and high hopes of causing an upset.

The emerging U.S. strategy appears to be one of diplomatically isolating Russia and Putin, in the hope of causing him to rethink his heavy-handed tactics.

"The tactic of trying to provoke a response in the hope of causing wider violence and mayhem is long established on the far-right and among extremist groups.

We are left with the image of liberalism's last act – the attempt to hurl extremism's weapons back at it, not in the hope of causing serious damage but because there are no other weapons left.

Rory Delap's long throws appeared to be the home side's only hope of causing consternation in the Hull defence and for a long time it seemed the game might only be remembered for an original counter-tactic deployed by the visitors.

They could discourage hostile governments not just from launching a direct nuclear (or chemical or biological or radiological) attack, which could invite devastating retaliation, but also from passing weapons or materials to a terrorist group in the hope of causing second-hand mayhem.In this section Don't do it Good food?