Some would, for instance, forgo meat at meal time, in the hope of making a call or sending an SMS that would enable them to put more food on the table later.
In summer 2020, after a period of too-low inflation, America's Federal Reserve said that it would tolerate inflation that was a little above its 2% target for a time, in the hope of making up for undershoots.
Yet time and again innocent people have been shown to confess to crimes in the hope of a more lenient sentence—or simply to make the interrogation stop.
[Ben] Breeding works by crossing two different rice varieties with favourable attributes, in the hope of a new variety which carries both of those characteristics.
And when the people heard about this, they started to wrap those sticky rice dumplings into bamboo leaves and threw them into the river in the hopes of preventing the fish from eating his body.
On her return to Egypt, Cleopatra found that her sister Arsinoe, who had been released from roman captivity, was plotting with an anti-Caesar faction in the hope of seizing power.
CVC took a huge risk in buying into the sport, at a time when several teams were threatening to break away and form a new outfit, in the hope of extracting a larger share of profits.