Sentence examples for rational hopes from inspiring English sources

Nick Clegg sat sombrely on the frontbench while the chancellor knocked down his rational hopes for new property taxes with prime ministerial prejudice.

Friedman indicated the Dodgers could afford to sign both Turner and one of the closers — if the market obeyed the team's rational hopes for the player's value.

First is his comeback from surgery, becoming a terrific pitcher once again, beyond all rational hope.

That it might happen a little faster is a rational hope, and a proper holiday wish.

The past half-century of disciplined and dematerializing demand and more intense and efficient land use encourage a rational hope that humanity's pressure will not overwhelm nature.

Lewis wrote, "The pleasure I now felt in having tryumphed over the rockey Mountains and decending once more to a level and fertile country where there was every rational hope of finding a comfortable subsistence for myself and party can be more readily conceived than expressed".

Saramago had a very high regard for truth; I think he chose to stop the story on a high point, not because he believed the ideals of social justice would ever be fulfilled – I'm not sure he "believed in" anything, in that sense – but because he judged a rational hope more useful than despair, and because he sought beauty in his art.

"While that was a rational hope, it has turned out to not be the case".

The greater the power in which hope is placed is conceived to be, the less realistic and rational that hope is likely to become.

These have only served to obscure the facts, a close discernment of which would give any rational person hope that we will soon see an end to this senseless tragedy.

The Royal Wedding was last weekend, and if you're anything like me it was probably an instructive lesson in how the political, or the rational, cannot hope to over-power the emotional.