But at least there was a counter to any hope Mr Rabbani might have of simply taking over a "totally mistaken" hope, said a (Pushtun) former foreign minister now close to the former king Mohammed Zahir Shah.
That big number had become a millstone around the players' necks, the local press felt, numerical code for mistaken hopes.
Begay has accepted responsibility since his arrest, answering numerous questions from reporters, speaking to children at schools, admitting his mistakes, hoping to make amends instead of excuses.
Thubron goes to places most other sojourners can't — because they're not so much geographic locations as states of mind, formed from the lifelong accretion of intriguing facts, mistaken hopes, mysteries.
When you make a mistake, you hope your team is good enough to overcome it.
Many Georgia leaders believe that was a terrible mistake, and hope that Mississippi voters at least can learn from Georgia's example.
SENATOR BOXER -- Well, if you can't admit to this mistake, I hope that you'll MS. RICE -- Senator, we can have this discussion in any way that you would like.
If no 1099 has yet been sent to the IRS indicating an IRA distribution, you could quietly fix the mistake and hope the taxmen never notice.
Once a user has gone to the typosquatted site by mistake, the hope is that they will be convinced into buying whatever the typosquatter is selling.
Therefore, I am now making an apology to my friends at Sant Ambroeus for this awful mistake and hope that my story here will be an honest attempt to make amends.
