reasonable hope

collocation in English

meaningsofreasonableandhope

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reasonable
adjective
uk
/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/us
/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/
based on or using good judgment and therefore fair ...
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hope
noun[C or U]
uk
/həʊp/us
/hoʊp/
something good that you want to happen in the future, or a confident feeling about what will happen in ...
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(Definition ofreasonableandhopefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Instead, we have to reckon with finitude and fallibility without surrenderingreasonablehopefor empirical knowledge.
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All of these individuals shared thereasonablehopeor expectation that the government would be motivated by practical considerations.
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The physicians agreed totally, and simply claimed that the intervention sought by the parents had noreasonablehopeof promoting that end.
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That is something one couldreasonablehopefor.
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That was areasonablehopeto entertain in 1955.
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Older patients with acute leukaemia and aggressive high grade lymphomas require intensive combination chemotherapy to have areasonablehopeof attaining clinical remission and long-term survival.
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We would then have areasonablehopeof being able to afford to pay our rates.
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If we get that, we may have areasonablehopethat peace will follow.
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We are told there is noreasonablehopethat discipline will be restored.
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Whether that was areasonablehopeor not, it has not been realised.
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There are, none-the-less, four reasons forreasonablehopethat our needs will be met.
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I have, therefore, areasonablehopeof being returned at the next election.
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Things may go sadly wrong, but at least there is nowreasonablehopefor the future.
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In the light of what has already happened, it is something we havereasonablehopemay actually occur.
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We should do better to concentrate on matters in which there is areasonablehopeof progress.
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They hoped—a perfectlyreasonablehopeat the time—that they would thereby set an example to the private sector.
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We have areasonablehopethat we may be able to finish to-morrow evening about five or six o'clock.
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I say that on this point there is no hope, noreasonablehopethat any greater discipline will be enforced.
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And, where possible, we should see that prison sentences offer somereasonablehopeof reform and rehabilitation.
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There is, accordingly, areasonablehopethat in due course the revenue account will come out on the right side.
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I think that is areasonablehope, and we have evidence to show that it is so.
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We should be happy enough today if we had more carriers, or areasonablehopeof having more.
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Have they a definite object, which they have areasonablehopeof achieving, in entering into negotiations on this matter?
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I want to suggest that there is a possible strategy that offers areasonablehopeof preventing a major war.
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There is areasonablehopethat all this can be achieved, and that at least a trickle of exports can begin to flow in 1948.
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