Last time people thought that any action in an increasingly desperate situation could generate optimism.

The next few weeks will help determine whether the optimism generated by January's vote can be sustained.

"We can wait it out," said Kathy, generating as much optimism as she could.

Such progress has generated renewed optimism at an exchange that for many years seemed to be floundering.

Naturally enough, these parallels with the golden era are generating considerable optimism.

A 37-point season-opening victory will generate considerable optimism about what lies ahead.

Under the skin, though, the craft are sufficiently different to generate cautious optimism that the hovercraft is at last coming of age.

Scoobey's enterprising nature and his ceaseless activity tended to generate optimism in any situation.

They passed the University of Technology, a tall grey building that could not have generated much optimism in the hearts of those who entered it.

However, in the optimism generated for the future, in the hope engendered in the emerging generation, this beginning had already accomplished much.