Theatergoers may be in mourning, but "Six Shooter" sends a wonderfully hopeful signal about Mr. McDonagh's second - or was it his first?

"The Government lost, but the opposition didn't win," Mr. Pedersen said, in a hopeful signal for Mr. Schluter.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the move, calling it a "a very hopeful signal" for relations with Russia.

His deep drive to the center-field warning track had hopped over the fence, and Rodriguez waved his hand in a circular motion, a hopeful signal for a home run.

At last, the sensors return the first hopeful signal.

The relevant question is whether the Arab endorsements contain hopeful signals - and they seem to.

"We have received a very hopeful signal that the federal government might support the project," he added.

Turkey's Parliament can send a hopeful signal about the country's political future by electing Judge Ahmet Necdet Sezer as the country's next president.

The hand of the European Union is clearly evident in some of these hopeful signals - and we should bear this in mind since we often tend to underestimate our own capacities.

But one small hopeful signal emerged today as lawyers in a separate racially charged case said they were prepared to discuss the possibility of a plea agreement.