These estimates are, however, based on optimistic and fairly conventional predictions for economic growth.

People who work with patients here say they are wary of optimistic predictions.

Even by the most optimistic (or dire) predictions, such organisms are probably decades into our future.

While that possibility could still prove true, none of the optimistic predictions about the well have yet been accurate.

I have saved the most optimistic and happiest prediction for the last.

One of the authors' most optimistic predictions was that America would become a wine-drinking nation.

He offered his own optimistic predictions for the season.

The most optimistic prediction is that these may be in place by next summer.

I am afraid that the time to put them right is still a long way off, much further off in fact than any optimistic prediction.

Their most optimistic prediction is that the fire will be fully under control on Monday.