hope for the best

Examples of hoping

hoping

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

No sane human being would search through all the 221 dimensions of the model blindly hoping to find some optimal sound!
Others settled as dependants of these men, hoping one day to be able to establish their own homesteads.
Biologists are hoping to learn more about the nervous system and the way in which it functions by using computer modelling techniques.
Usually they attempt a neo-classical contract, hoping that the uncertainty can be encompassed within its flexible clauses.
It was still a foreign place, whither one fled hoping to find 'quiet life without thinking', populated by straight-talking, businesslike, practical locals.
Vainly hoping to demonstrate by upright living their fitness for mainstream society, they clung tenaciously to bourgeois respectability and doctrinal orthodoxy.
The region's governments therefore need to find ways to live with volatility, rather than hoping it will disappear.
They sought state laws setting qualifications for conductors, engineers, and telegraphers hoping to control and limit the supply of skilled labor in their own occupations.
These findings have several implications for political scientists hoping to study campaign effects.
When challenged, the defender will attempt deterrence by also threatening to fight, hoping that the challenger will not press on with her demands.
I am hoping that all of you will benefit from this new series in your daily work.
Unable to operate as independent political actors, they attach themselves to other groups, hoping to attract favours and resources.
Other major contexts are 'inactive' but always hoping to become active.
A 28 year-old man with widespread melanoma is hoping the doctor will offer him a new treatment.
The man can only flee, hoping to escape the police.
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