It would, hopefully, help to create mutual trust and confidence among the five powers. A United Nations staff should be able to consider the problems of the various nations more impartially than the staff assigned to the member delegations. The reports prepared - and they should deal with legal, scientific and military questions - should be as objective as' possible. Humphrey, "A New Approach to Disarmament", The New Republic : Just as the cause of disarmament may be furthered by the appointment of a neutral Chairman so might it be furthered by the creation of an impartial and objective United Nations technical staff. It will be unique in that it will sell an idea - something that is already in existence. Hopefully, Happy-Marriage Week will be unlike any of the well-worn celebrations now in existence. The forgotten man and woman, rediscovered once a year! Alone they are negligible en masse they are news. The happiness that flourishes, unnoticed, in countless happy homes may not be news, but happiness celebrated simultaneously by millions immediately makes headlines. Curran, "Happy-Marriage Week", Good Housekeeping July 1950: To put happiness on the map, even on the front page, for a whole week out of the year can not fail to achieve some good. Le Conte Stevens, "University Education for Women", North American Review, January 1883: Despite the political transgressions of the present generation, there are some subjects left in which it is hopefully possible to improve on the results left by our forefathers. Some 1883 examples of evaluative hopefully:Īllan Pinkerton, The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives, 1883: These facts Manning gleaned in a conversation with the proprietor of the hotel, while he was making his preparations to commence his search for the man whose crime had led him such a long chase, and whose detection now seemed hopefully imminent. But the "traditional meaning" of hopefully, "in a hopeful manner", still accounts for 24% of instances, so it's misleading to say that this usage is "all but lost". So evaluative hopefully is certainly now part of American English. By the 2000s, 76% of COHA's instances of hopefully are evaluative, many from esteemed writers in well-edited sources.
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