But Thursday's ruling dashed hopes for new limits nationwide on gerrymandering.
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The president's remarks dashed hopes that tariffs would soon be lifted.
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The sanctions dashed hopes of a rapprochement between Moscow and Washington.
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The Cyprus dispute is a repository of dashed hopes and broken dreams.
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There have been setbacks — years of failed clinical trials and dashed hopes.
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For young people, property prices represent dashed hopes and a looming intergenerational battle.
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The history of presidential election is littered with big wins leading to dashed hopes.
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All of Simon's dashed hopes and disappointments become worth it in this one moment.
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These positive impressions come in the context of a recent history of dashed hopes.
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The stalemate dashed hopes for new deals on regulating the widening presence of e-commerce.
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Is 2020 the year Texas will be competitive for Democrats, after years of dashed hopes?
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Maybe me and my dashed hopes for reliving the 20-year-old past can suck it.
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This was despite the fact the potential agreement dashed hopes of a deal to cut production.
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But Ms. Mastropietro knew what awaited her: budget cuts, layoffs and the anguish of dashed hopes.
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Ever since it closed, it has been a drag, offering promise and dashed hopes in equal measure.
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Her 2009 critical flop turned cult classic, Jennifer's Body, was rife with anger, betrayal and dashed hopes.
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But dashed hopes for higher rates have left it down 1.5 percent versus the dollar this month.
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Eastman, it seems, was a man filled with longing, and with dashed hopes that he helped dash.
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After all, negotiations with North Korea have led only to dashed hopes for the last quarter-century.
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This, too, has dashed hopes that China's integration into the global economy would lead to its democratization.
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Gold came under pressure last week after the Fed dashed hopes of an interest rate cut this year.
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South Korea said the launch dashed hopes for Seoul's new liberal government's aim for peace between the neighbours.
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Oil came under pressure this week after Saudi Arabia's oil minister dashed hopes for a possible production cuts.
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Earlier in the week, Saudi Arabia dashed hopes of oil production cuts to reduce the global supply glut.
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Yikes. She'd be one of the starkest cases of dashed hopes and downward mobility in modern American politics.
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Is a history of amazing fights, dashed hopes, and advanced age reason enough to give Henderson a title shot?
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Now, for refugees who supported the opposition, President Bashar al-Assad's victory has dashed hopes of ever going home.
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Dashed hopes for much more – immediate nuclear disarmament by North Korea — could ramp up tensions rather than reduce them.
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But he said investors are eager to hear how Pfizer's overall strategy might change, given its dashed hopes for Allergan.
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You'll recognize all the familiar throes — exalted expectations and dashed hopes, disillusionment and embarrassing self-delusion — in fiction about work.
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The mayor of Orange Beach, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, said Alberto brought rain and aggravation – and dashed hopes for record crowds.
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Chancellor Sebastian Kurz dashed hopes that he and his conservative People's Party would reject an alliance with the extremist Freedom Party.
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But the emergence of hundreds of coronavirus cases in Japan, Italy and South Korea has dashed hopes of a speedy recovery.
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The U.S. dollar index fell to its lowest since early August after the Fed dashed hopes of further interest rate increases.
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The news dashed hopes that the person found wandering a Newport neighborhood was the missing boy, who would now be 14.
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"This dashed hopes in the market that additional support for infrastructure spending would support commodity demand," said ANZ in a note.
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Brent crude dropped nearly 3 percent, below $40 a barrel, after Iran dashed hopes of a coordinated production freeze any time soon.
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In between games, the men speak of dreams and dashed hopes: homesickness and low pay are often the least of their woes.
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There were missed opportunities and dashed hopes, but to blame Mr Blair for nearly all of them, as Mr Bower does, is absurd.
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We hear about Gil's dashed hopes when he failed to become the voice of CBS at an audition he thought he had nailed.
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That dashed hopes of an undisputed transfer of power as the longtime leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, steps down.
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This has dashed hopes for the 3 percent sustained growth rate promised by the Trump administration and contributed to growing concern among economists.
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Martinaise tells dozens of stories about dashed hopes, and is overall quite bleak in its depiction of the possibility of a better future.
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The political uncertainty comes at a difficult time for Iran's leaders as the reimposed U.S. sanctions have dashed hopes of an economic breakthrough.
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"We are the poster child of optimists with dashed hopes, without a celebrity to tout our cause, much like any small town," he said.
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And China dashed hopes for a renegotiation of CPEC deals—which are, after all, commercial arrangements with state-owned enterprises, not with the state.
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Oil prices were flat on Wednesday in Asia after falling in the last session after Saudi Arabia dashed hopes of a deal this time.
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Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee dashed hopes of holding hearings to confirm a replacement for the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
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The political uncertainty comes at a difficult time for Iran's leaders as the newly reimposed U.S. sanctions have dashed hopes of an economic breakthrough.
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The show of strength dashed hopes the cartel was seriously weakened by the life sentence the elder Guzman received in the United States this year.
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Last week, gold dropped to a four-month low after the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell dashed hopes of a rate cut this year.
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Investors will welcome this sense of consistency, although the prime minister's imminent departure has also dashed hopes that grander modernisations might be on the cards.
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Later Wednesday, Trump himself dashed hopes for one alternative that would give lawmakers more power to check future emergency declarations — but not the current one.
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That's why stocks have retreated since Friday's strong jobs report, which dashed hopes of an even deeper rate cut in July than is currently expected.
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The bloodshed quickly dashed hopes of a prolonged cease-fire or a further reduction in violence after a weeklong drop in episodes across the country.
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It was a contentious, sprawling, roller coaster of dashed hopes and false dawns — a mini-series where major characters suddenly die and plot twists shock.
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Nearly two years later, the 36-year-old bank teller speaks of dashed hopes and expresses reverence for Mugabe, who died on Friday aged 95.
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CALLING RETAIL SHOPPERS Retail investors have been slow to re-warm to leveraged loan funds, deterred by repeatedly dashed hopes of near-term Fed rate hikes.
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Iran dashed hopes of a coordinated production freeze any time soon, returning bearish sentiment to the market over a supply glut that has sent prices crashing.
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Now, The TV ShowA year after City of Bones' failure, Constantin Film renewed fans' dashed hopes by announcing the series would instead be adapted for television.
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Mass protests in France have dashed hopes for a handoff of pan-European leadership from Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany to the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
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Trump's early comments on Huawei initially dashed hopes that the U.S. Commerce Department would soon approve some licenses for American companies to resume some sales to Huawei.
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Mozambique's Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane also dashed hopes that it could offer GDP-linked bonds which would give investors bump-up payments if the country's economy improves.
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But the spiraling Rohingya crisis has dashed hopes of expanding engagement with Western armies, Andrew Selth, an academic who has researched Myanmar's armed forces, wrote in September.
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He has his finger on the youth pulse and feels the rising tide of anger and frustration spreading among the youth from repeatedly dashed hopes and expectations.
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Oil prices fell as Iran dashed hopes of a coordinated production freeze any time soon, returning the focus to the supply glut that has sent prices crashing.
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The decision dashed hopes that the Democratic Republic of Congo might experience its first undisputed transfer of power by the ballot box since independence six decades ago.
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The bloodshed dashed hopes that Sudan's new military rulers - who overthrew veteran leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir on April 11 - would hand over power quickly to civilians.
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Dashed hopes, breathless victories and painful regrets make up "Shot in the Dark," a documentary that has the rhythm of some spare yet deeply felt street poetry.
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But neither the dashed hopes of so many from last year's caravans nor Mr. Trump's threats seemed to discourage many of the participants in the latest caravan.
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Yet despite heady expectations, slowly emerging oil market data once again dashed hopes that producer pledges would cause the towering oil glut to recede as soon as hoped.
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But Iran, back on the world oil market after the lifting of years of sanctions, swiftly dashed hopes of a deal, saying it would not abandon its share.
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But the emergence of hundreds of cases in two major economies outside of China — South Korea and Italy — have dashed hopes of a speedy recovery from the epidemic.
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On Wednesday, its internationally acknowledged leader dashed hopes of a quick revival of U.N. ceasefire negotiations after his side withdrew from them as eastern forces shelled the capital.
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As world leaders gather in Davos next week at the dawn of the 2020s, they confront a similarly decisive historic moment and a comparable set of dashed hopes.
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The formation of the new government no doubt came as a relief to many in Iceland, but the lineup of the new administration dashed hopes of radical change.
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Wall Street's main indexes eased from their record highs in the past two sessions after the Fed dashed hopes of interest rate cuts this year and oil prices fell.
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But the show makes an exception in this scene, as the words of "America the Beautiful" (where the episode gets its name) play over the couple's horrifically dashed hopes.
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Stocks in Asia mostly rose on Tuesday, though gains were capped amid potentially dashed hopes that central banks could take action to combat the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
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That largely dashed hopes for the drug and cast further doubt on whether beta amyloid is the right target for attacking the memory-robbing disease that affects millions of people.
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Waves crashing on sandy shores, weird bird noises from Wells and Yuki, and the sound of dashed hopes and dying dreams are the soundtrack of this week's Bachelor In Paradise.
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Oil prices fell deep into the red on Monday after Iran dashed hopes of a production cut, just days ahead of a potential meeting between OPEC and non-OPEC members.
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Given the dashed hopes of previous searches and the many spurious claims of Viking presence in the Americas, scientists on the project as well as outside experts have voiced caution.
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The stalemate dashed hopes for new deals on e-commerce and curbs to farm and fisheries subsidies and raised questions about the body's ability to govern increasingly disputed global trade.
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The German economy did not grow in the final three months of 2019, and the outbreak of coronavirus has dashed hopes of a rebound at the start of this year.
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The bickering over trade language has dashed hopes of Japan, which chairs this year's G20 meetings, to keep trade issues low on the various agendas at the finance leaders' meeting.
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Offsides After centuries of colonization and exploitation and decades of dashed hopes on the pitch, I want to see an African country get an equal place on the world stage.
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At the same time, Dr. Harvey is learning to let go of his own dashed hopes and expectations, of a long life lived with his beloved wife by his side.
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"There was nothing too unexpected about yesterday's vote but there is still a feeling of dashed hopes that an agreement has not been reached," said Commerzbank rates strategist David Schnautz.
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The Russian market has become a victim of dashed hopes about the relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that once promised a thaw in diplomatic ties.
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Sunday's protest comes days after the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a pivotal moment that dashed hopes China would democratize before it took control of Hong Kong in 1997.
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Beijing recently dashed hopes it would loosen its grip on those measures to stabilize the economy, saying it will not use the property market as a form of short-term stimulus.
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The bickering over trade language has dashed hopes of Japan, which chairs this year's G20 meetings, to keep trade issues low on the list of agendas at the finance leaders' meeting.
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Some investors may see dashed hopes of a recovery anytime soon for Deere, based on two billionaires — Warren Buffett and Bill Gates — reducing their stock holdings in the farm machinery giant.
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HUAWEI WAIVER PROCESS CONTINUES Trump's early comments on Huawei initially dashed hopes that the U.S. Commerce Department would soon approve some licenses for American companies to resume some sales to Huawei.
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Beijing recently dashed hopes it would loosen its grip on those measures to stabilise the economy, saying it will not use the property market as a form of short-term stimulus.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Monday as Iran dashed hopes of a coordinated production freeze, while the dollar rose ahead of a policy meeting at the U.S. central bank.
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Beijing has dashed hopes it would ease its bubble-curbing measures to boost the faltering economy, saying it would not use the property market as a form of short-term stimulus.
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This has dashed hopes that Temer's lame duck government can push through Congress business friendly measures such as the privatization of Brazil's largest utility, Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA, known as Eletrobras.
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The derelict neighborhood around Trump Towers Rio, like many abandoned projects throughout the city, is a reminder of dashed hopes in the aftermath of the country's sudden descent into economic recession.
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The violence dashed hopes for a restart to stalled talks between the main opposition coalition and the ruling military council over who should govern in a transitional period after Bashir's overthrow.
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It is also a reminder of the dashed hopes in the region, seven years after a fruit vendor's self-immolation in Tunisia touched off what became known as the Arab Spring.
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And the outside elements only reinforce the purgatorial air in which the Tyrones are adrift; even when they go out for a spell, they trail a cloud of dashed hopes and regrets.
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Their sudden departure caused U.S. markets to tumble overnight, as it dampened optimism on trade talks and dashed hopes that Beijing might be preparing to buy large quantities of American agricultural goods.
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Opposite, a fortified former headquarters of the Kurdish autonomous region's ruling party serves as a base for the Iraqi forces that led Kirkuk's swift recapture in October and dashed hopes of Kurdish independence.
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Overnight comments from Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, dashed hopes for a possible production cut to tackle the global supply glut and sent already low oil prices lower still.
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From an economic point of view, the VAT increase, which needs to be approved in further readings to become law, has all but dashed hopes of lower interest rates, a Reuters poll showed.
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Last week, the mood among gold investors turned gloomy, pushing the metal to a four-month low after the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell dashed hopes of a rate cut this year.
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He is now a middle-aged politician in a suit, a legislator preaching the coexistence of Arab and Jew in a time of dashed hopes, almost daily acts of terror, and regional chaos.
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But a jump in new cases after China deployed a new diagnostic method and a record rise in the death toll dashed hopes that the epidemic was slowing and swiftly subdued risk appetite.
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Last week, the mood among gold investors had turned gloomy, pushing the metal to a four-month low after the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell dashed hopes of a rate cut this year.
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Peter Praet's comments dashed hopes that the ECB was about to launch a new Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operation (TLTRO) to alleviate the pressure on struggling lenders in countries such as Italy and Greece.
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While the BOJ has effectively dashed hopes that it would adopt unorthodox "helicopter money" stimulus methods, the market has maintained its expectations that the central bank would ease in one form or the other.
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His election has also dashed hopes for U.S. approval of a 12-nation trade pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a linchpin of Washington's "pivot" to Asia and a pillar of Abe's economic reforms.
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Friday's report showing that gross domestic product grew just 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter brought to a conclusion another year of dashed hopes for economic liftoff — "escape velocity," as it is sometimes called.
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The annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin dashed hopes for a slowdown in emissions of CO23 - the byproduct of burning fossil fuels that scientists say is the main cause of the greenhouse effect causing global warming.
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"Global investors have completely capitulated after there was no Powell put," said Yasuo Sakuma, chief investment officer at Libra Investments, referring to dashed hopes of more dovish comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
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Dashed hopes for a new chapter The election was supposed to be a new chapter for Zimbabwe, a way for the government to end sanctions from Western powers and convince investors to come back.
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The breakdown in talks came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany had a phone conversation in which, according to one British official, Ms. Merkel dashed hopes of a deal.
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His ability to generate mesmerizing clusters of sounds out of grim discards — the aura of despair, dashed hopes, and death emanating from the forlorn objects — made me want to know about him and his work.
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It is not hard to imagine the dream of modern party leaders: that all China should forget the passions, fears and dashed hopes of 1989, so that future anniversaries pass without a flicker of dissent.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Host Brazil is likely to miss its medal target after losses in judo, almost certainly a first Olympics without a swimming medal since 2004 and dashed hopes in tennis and archery.
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Libya's internationally recognised leader Fayez al-Serraj dashed hopes of reviving peace negotiations on Wednesday after the Libyan National Army (LNA) of Khalifa Haftar shelled the port of the capital, held by al-Serraj's government.
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"President Trump has dashed hopes of a phase one trade deal by mid-December and also hinted at 'no deal' until after 2020 elections, implying a prolonged uncertainty well into the next year," they said.
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Tariffs on Chinese garlic increased from 2000 to 25 percent on May 9, when the U.S. hiked tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods and dashed hopes that a U.S.-China trade deal could come soon.
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Japan Display expects to post its fifth straight year of net losses in the year ending this month, as disappointing sales of Apple's iPhone XR, the only model with LCD screens, dashed hopes for a turnaround.
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Tariffs on Chinese garlic increased from 236 to 2000 percent on May 9, when the U.S. hiked tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods and dashed hopes that a U.S.-China trade deal could come soon.
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Activists in China will undoubtedly attempt to test the censors, and many people who were alive at the time of the massacre and remember the dashed hopes of those days will seek to force a reckoning.
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The recently increased risks of more U.S. sanctions against Russia have all but dashed hopes for more rate cuts this year and in the first half of 2019, a Reuters monthly economic poll showed last week.
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Severe shortages of foreign currency, fuel and electricity have sent inflation soaring to its highest since 2008, and dashed hopes the economy might recover under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took over from Robert Mugabe in 13.
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But if Mr. Ryan — the author of a novel and three books for young readers — is unflinching in depicting their liabilities, he also displays a gift for excavating the dashed hopes and yearnings that lie beneath.
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Shortages of foreign currency, fuel and electricity are characterising Zimbabwe's worst economic crisis in a decade and have dashed hopes the economy might recover under President Emmerson Mnangagwa who took over from Robert Mugabe in 2017.
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The HTC Vive Focus (Image: HTC) Today HTC announced a cool new completely standalone VR headset for China, and then promptly dashed hopes in America by confirming the cancellation of the standalone headset intended for US audiences.
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Japan Display expects to post its fifth straight year of net losses in the year ending this month, as disappointing sales of Apple's iPhone XR, the only model with an LCD screen, dashed hopes for a turnaround.
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The finding dashed hopes that the search and rescue operation was zeroing in on the ARA San Juan, which was carrying 44 crew and gave its last signal five days ago after earlier reporting an electric malfunction.
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Local investors say the currency was also hurt by dashed hopes that Assad's battleground gains would encourage wealthy Syrians abroad to seek opportunities in the war-ravaged economy, many of whom were also scared by tougher sanctions.
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Libya's internationally recognised leader Fayez al-Serraj dashed hopes of reviving peace negotiations on Wednesday after the Libyan National Army (LNA) of Khalifa Haftar shelled the port of the capital, which is held by al-Serraj's government.
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Asian stock markets wobbled and the safe-havens of the Japanese yen, gold and bonds rose after the new numbers from Hubei province dashed hopes the epidemic was stabilising and the Chinese economy could bounce back quickly.
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Asian stock markets wobbled and the safe-havens of the Japanese yen, gold and bonds rose after the new numbers from Hubei province dashed hopes the epidemic was stabilising and the Chinese economy could bounce back quickly.
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Gold prices slipped on Wednesday as U.S. threats of tariffs on an additional $20.22 billion of Chinese goods pushed safe-haven flows to the dollar and dashed hopes that Washington will eventually step back from the escalating row.
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His journey from schoolboy demonstrator to veteran fighter, from early optimism to last-ditch defense in the towns and farmlands of Idlib province, echoes the dashed hopes of many Syrians who took to the streets to challenge authorities.
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The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury note touched a three-week low on Wednesday after a Reuters report dashed hopes the U.S. and China would sign a "phase one" agreement before the end of the year.
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The head of Libya's internationally recognized government Fayez al-Serraj dashed hopes of reviving peace negotiations on Wednesday after the Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar shelled the port in the capital Tripoli, held by al-Serraj's government.
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Once rabid public support, which some say rivaled the Montreal Canadiens at one point, was in terminal decline by the turn of the century, thanks to years of mediocrity, labor disputes, drama, dashed hopes, and a crappy, crumbling stadium.
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With little strategic value, the two territories have become a symbol of dashed hopes and growing anger with Israel on the part of Jordan's political establishment, which says the 1994 treaty with its neighbour has brought no peace dividend.
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Beijing has dashed hopes it would ease its bubble-curbing measures to boost the faltering economy, saying in a high-profile work meeting in July it will not use the property market as a form of short-term stimulus.
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Freedom of expression has been deteriorating since her administration came to power in 2016, with prosecutions creating a "climate of fear" among journalists, the rights group said in its report, "Dashed Hopes: The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Myanmar".
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London (CNN Business)The emergence of hundreds of coronavirus cases in two major economies outside China has dashed hopes of a speedy recovery from an epidemic that has already wreaked havoc on global supply chains and hit company profits.
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By Friday, a caravan that had numbered as many as 2800,000 a week ago had dwindled to several dozen, most of them languishing in Ciudad Tecún Umán in Guatemala, where they were considering their dashed hopes and next moves.
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A slump in oil prices dashed hopes that President Enrique Pena Nieto's energy sector opening in 2013 along with telecoms and banking reforms would boost foreign investment and supercharge growth while clouds are now gathering over its budget and economy.
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Over the last two sessions, a record-setting rally in the main stock indexes hit a wall after the Federal Reserve dashed hopes of interest rate cuts this year and said the softness in inflation was mostly due to transient factors.
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The Reserve Bank of India has dashed hopes of a windfall of nearly $15 billion based on expectations that up to 30 percent of the "black cash" would expire worthless, enabling it to pay a one-off dividend to the government.
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But risk appetite took a hit again and crude prices pared gains after the Saudi, Russian, Qatari and Venezuelan oil ministers dashed hopes of a deal to cut a huge oversupply of oil, proposing instead to freeze output at January levels.
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It was the seminal mistake of his presidency—one that set the tone for the next eight years of dashed hopes, and helped pave the way for Donald Trump to harness the pent-up demand for change Obama had unleashed.
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Days after 8-year-old Guatemalan immigrant Felipe Alonzo Gomez died in the hospital on Christmas Day while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, his family is sharing their dashed hopes for him and mourning their loss.
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Dimitris Christofias, a Communist whose disastrous term as president of Cyprus was marked by financial crisis, dashed hopes of reconciling the divided island, and a freak explosion that knocked out the country's main power supply, died on Friday in Nicosia.
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In the economic boom that followed, kawaii, defined as something both lovable and pitiable — which is to say, something lovable because it is naïve to forces larger than itself — provided both solace and consumerist distraction from dashed hopes for change.
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But this speculation was dampened by the results of the funding round, sparking a modest sell-off in bond markets already on the back foot after the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut rates but dashed hopes of further easing.
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TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's internationally recognised leader on Wednesday dashed hopes of quickly reviving U.N. ceasefire negotiations after his side withdrew, saying talk of them resuming had been overtaken by events as eastern forces continue to shell the capital.
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Shares in SocGen were down by around 2 percent in early session trading on Thursday, with the broader market falling by a similar amount after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates and dashed hopes of a more dovish outlook.
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Scores of people have been killed since the beginning of the year in a series of attacks that have dashed hopes of an end to the violence of recent years and stepped up pressure on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government to improve security.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Treasury official dashed hopes for a World Bank capital increase in the near term, saying the multilateral lender first needs to review its balance sheet to ensure resources are going to countries and projects that need them most.
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Japan Display has estimated it will post its fifth straight year of net losses for the year ended in March, as disappointing sales of Apple's iPhone XR, the only model with a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen, dashed hopes for a turnaround.
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To critics, though, the Parliament is no more than window-dressing for his authoritarian rule — a fractured and toothless institution that marks the culmination of five years of sometimes bloody political tumult, and that represents the dashed hopes of a truly representative democracy.
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For after suffering from decades of decline, Zimbabwe is also facing a drought and devastation from Cyclone Idai that has further dashed hopes that the economy will quickly recover in the wake of the downfall of Robert Mugabe in a coup in 2017.
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All eyes were on China at this year's APEC summit in Lima, Peru just over a week after Trump's surprise victory in the United States dashed hopes of the largest-ever U.S.-proposed trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), coming to fruition.
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Last year, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions dashed hopes for reform when he disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science, an Obama-era advisory panel that sought the input of research scientists in improving the standards and soundness of forensic analysis and testimony.
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"News that President Trump walked out of the meeting with Supreme Leader Kim, because the two sides couldn't reach an agreement over North Korea's nuclear disarmament, dashed hopes for an easing in geopolitical tensions," analysts at ANZ said in a morning note.
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They added that this speculation had been dampened by the results of the funding round, sparking a modest selloff in bond markets already on the back foot after the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut rates but dashed hopes of further easing.
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After many years of rumours, dead-ends and dashed hopes, the first film adaption of The Dark Tower (the movie based on Stephen King's epic fantasy series) is finally on its way — and we now have a 3-minute trailer to sink our teeth into.
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It was a recipe for failure, leaving a sense of disappointment and anger among lawmakers and survivors of those lost in an epidemic of mass killings — another instance of dashed hopes that the latest unimaginable slaughter would be the one to finally provoke a compromise.
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LONDON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - German 10-year government bond yields fell to their lowest in nearly seven months on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates as expected but dashed hopes of a more dovish stance fueling a global selloff in equities.
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Emerging in the early 1990s with the Cynical Realism movement, Liu Wei responded to the dashed hopes and malaise of a generation impacted by the Tiananmen Square massacre by creating sarcastic portraits of his family and friends, rendered in bright colors and expressionistic brushstrokes.
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Uber Technologies Inc's tentative settlement of a major class action has dashed hopes that courts would soon rule on the crucial issue of whether its drivers are employees or independent contractors, and turned attention to National Labor Relations Board cases that pose the same question.
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But a series of missed deadlines for handing over governance to the Palestinian Authority, and the removal last month of the Egyptian intelligence chief who had brokered the reconciliation talks, have dashed hopes and left the two factions squabbling, the rapprochement slowly bleeding out.
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Russia-Japan relations: President Vladimir Putin, after a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, dashed hopes that Russia would return two small islands north of Hokkaido that the Soviet Union seized at the end of World War II, leaving a decades-long territorial dispute unresolved.
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The Turkish government unveiled a plan on Wednesday to help the country's banks survive an epidemic of bad loans, but it dashed hopes for more sweeping measures to address an economic downturn that has become a threat to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's hold on power.
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ABU DIS, West Bank — Like a monument to dashed hopes, an unfinished Palestinian parliament building stands derelict on a ridge in Abu Dis, an unimposing West Bank suburb of Jerusalem that the Trump administration has proposed as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
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Is this the aesthetic hell we currently inhabit — touring renovated sections of Manhattan dotted with fashionable waterholes, where we can relax and talk turkey before scooting off to the next gallery opening to see the latest expression of our lost illusions and dashed hopes?
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China has also signalled it will promote plans for regional trade integration, vowing to seek support for a Beijing-backed Asia-Pacific free trade area at a summit in Peru later this month, after Trump's win dashed hopes for the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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The appeal, citing evidence of a police set-up and lack of proof of a crime, came as New York-based Human Rights Watch said Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's government had dashed hopes for Myanmar's first democratic leader in decades to protect free speech.
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First off: Bad news, Expanded Universe fans—that Mara Jade cameo in Episode IX looks less likely now that her creator, Timothy Zahn, has seemingly dashed hopes that she'll show up in the movie, saying that he's had no heads-up that Lucasfilm plans to use the character.
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Bearish sentiment about the oil market resurfaced Monday after Iran dashed hopes for an output freeze in the near future, but that doesn't mean there should be expectations that crude prices will fall even further, said Joe Petrowski, founder of Mercantor Partners and a former CEO of Gulf Oil.
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Investors and economists have been particularly concerned about how the continued shutdown of factories in China could affect global supply chains, but the new outbreaks in two major economies -- Italy and South Korea -- have rattled markets and dashed hopes of a speedy recovery, sparking this week's worldwide stock rout.
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Oil producer Iran swiftly dashed hopes of a deal however, saying it would not abandon its share in the oil market, although Reuters cited two two sources familiar with the matter as saying the OPEC member could be offered special terms under a global deal to freeze oil production levels.
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On first reading, this announcement—which as an artwork is titled Thwarted Projects, Dashed Hopes, A Moment of Embarrassment—appears absurd: A person can't retire their official identity and endow themselves with a new one simply by writing a note; Piper points to the futility of such an endeavor in her last line.
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The dramatic shattering of a month-long truce between Beijing and Washington this month has dashed hopes of a trade deal, and these investors are bracing for more bad news, such as further sanctions on Chinese companies, pressure on ratings agencies to downgrade Chinas credit rating and even moves to drive up the price of oil.
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The dramatic shattering of a month-long truce between Beijing and Washington this month has dashed hopes of a trade deal, and these investors are bracing for more bad news, such as further sanctions on Chinese companies, pressure on ratings agencies to downgrade China's credit rating and even moves to drive up the price of oil.
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The mother of James W. Foley, the first American hostage beheaded by the Islamic State, expressed concern Thursday that Turkey's assault on Syrian Kurds, who have been guarding thousands of ISIS detainees in Syria, would lead to prisoner escapes, resurrection of the extremist group and dashed hopes for punishment of the killers of her son and others.
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Mr. Albee's Broadway debut, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" the famously scabrous portrait of a withered marriage, won a Tony Award in 1963 for best play, ran for more than a year and half and enthralled and shocked theatergoers with its depiction of stifling academia and of a couple whose relationship has been corroded by dashed hopes, wounding recriminations and drink.
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This is how the Metropolitan Museum describes Levine's 1981 photograph of Walker Evans' photograph, "Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife" (1936), a close-up portrait of tight-lipped Allie Mae Burroughs, the wife of an Alabama sharecropper: Levine's works from this series tell the story of our perpetually dashed hopes to create meaning, the inability to recapture the past, and our own lost illusions.
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Traveling along the migrant trail in reverse, from Idomeni in the north down to Athens and across the Aegean to the islands where refugees arrive from Turkey, amounted to a tour of dashed hopes: for refugees who are barred from going forward and do not want to go back, and for the Greek people, who see little chance of escaping the economic and social trauma of the past decade.
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Both Adams and showrunner Marti Noxon have dashed hopes of Camille Preaker coming back to our screens, with Noxon saying "This is it, so bask in it while you can" and Adams taking a step back for the sake of her mental health: "Unlike Big Little Lies where all of the stars wanted to come back, Sharp Objects, it's a very dark character, very dark material," HBO president of programming Casey Bloys told Deadline.
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But for the sizable faction of the conservative elite that recognizes Clinton is a conventional Democrat, and that the country can survive four or eight more years of Democratic rule, they owe it to the public to be crystal clear about the fact that Trump is a unique threat: Clinton represents the dashed hopes of a conservative policy course correction, but she's a fundamentally capable steward of the government and Trump is not.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellFlorida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus On The Money: Senate sends coronavirus aid package to Trump | Lawmakers race to draft next stimulus | Stocks close with steep loses | Treasury offers guidance on deferring tax payments McConnell takes reins of third coronavirus bill MORE (R-Ky.) dashed hopes of easy passage Thursday, denouncing the Democratic offering as an "ideological wish list" and canceling the Senate's planned break, pushing the House to do the same.
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