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Example sentences for "cannot hope"

  • Even with maximum encouragement of Production, we cannot hope to remove scarcities within a short time.

  • We may easily convince him that their power will soon become, by his assistance, such as he cannot hope to withstand, and show, from the examples of other princes, how dangerous it is to add to the strength of an ambitious neighbour.

  • I, who claim no other title than that of an old soldier, cannot hope to prevail much by my oratory; it is enough for me that I am confident of confuting those arguments in the field, which I oppose in the senate.

  • One feature of this visit I fear I cannot hope to see repeated, yet one without which it could never have been accomplished.

  • I cannot hope adequately to respond to the personal sentiments which have been so graciously expressed nor adequately celebrate the deeds and the virtues of your distinguished guest.

  • A low shuddering sound, which I cannot hope to describe, but alas I can never forget, broke from the lips of the tortured man.

  • How it occurred I cannot hope to make dear, for here my recollections merge into a chaos.

  • Of course, I cannot hope to make you understand; but it was extraordinary.

  • Looking around me, I saw also, with such a pang of horror as I cannot hope to convey to you, that the ring of green eyes was now unbroken about me.

  • I cannot hope to make you feel one little part of the emotion with which those instants were laden.

  • We cannot hope to reach many positive conclusions, but rather merely to discuss certain possibilities and probabilities in regard to the main factors of the differentiation of racial mental types.

  • He cannot hope to do so before we reach London.

  • We cannot hope to reach Parton, before they overtake us," Oswald said.

  • Still, however large a force he may raise, we cannot hope to check their first incursion.

  • How it occurred I cannot hope to make clear, for here my recollections merge into a chaos.

  • A low shuddering sound, which I cannot hope to describe, but alas!

  • We cannot hope to escape her, and therefore I advise that we resume our course, and make ready for an encounter, though it is more than likely that she will prove to be a friend.

  • That being the case, we cannot hope to move during the daytime, and our only chance of safety is this ravine of which you speak.

  • On the other hand, we cannot hope to remain here for long.

  • For the adult generation that now works (and for how many generations to come we do not know), we cannot hope to make ideal conditions.

  • We cannot hope to change individualism to altruism merely by exciting feeling.


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