dashed hopes

This is a tale of dashed hopes, delays, repairs and paperwork, plus relentless positivity from the passengers of the ship.

The army dashed hopes of a ceasefire deal by boycotting Wednesday's talks, saying it would not attend as the RSF had not implemented "what was agreed upon" in Saudi Arabia last year.

Ever-dwindling numbers of World War II veterans who have pilgrimaged back to France, and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine that has dashed hopes that lives and cities wouldn’t again be laid to waste in Europe, are making the always poignant anniversaries of the June 6, 1944, Allied landings even more so 80 years on.

The decision to scrap the trial date has dashed hopes that Trump’s alleged mishandling of national security secrets will go before jurors anytime soon, much less before the November election.

Such comments by Powell have dashed hopes on Wall Street that the Fed would cut its rate three times this year, which as recently as March the central bank’s officials had projected they would do.