How To Use Expectation In A Sentence

Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
All this seems to contradict the expectation of the manipulation theorists.
In a downward inflation trend, salary expectations lag the decreases in inflation.
And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on! Clarissa Harlowe
Haven't seen remake, so I think my perceptions of the Wenders flick were relatively uncolored by expectations of what I thought it was ‘supposed to’ be about.

The company reported strong profit margins in its fourth quarter results, although revenues were below expectations.
Thus the expectations regarding the strength of sexual selection for polygyny, polyandry, and monogamy are fairly simple.
Even men who marry commoners are struggling to afford lobola, which has increased with the expectations of parents whose daughters are marrying into the mushrooming black middle class.
As the days and games tick by, perhaps they will implode under the pressure of expectation. Times, Sunday Times
Expectations, helpfully, could scarcely be lower.
Second, women have a longer expectation of life than men.
And now he called Ahithophel, and consulted with him what he ought to do: he persuaded him to go in unto his father's concubines; for he said that "by this action the people would believe that thy difference with thy father is irreconcilable, and will thence fight with great alacrity against thy father, for hitherto they are afraid of taking up open enmity against him, out of an expectation that you will be reconciled again. Antiquities of the Jews
Rewarding performance Motivation is a choice to channel energy into certain activities in the expectation that valued goals will be rewarded.
Directory assistance provider Conduit said it had made a profit after tax in its last quarter, three months ahead of expectations.
It also has led us to rethink the notion of naturalness and the rock solid expectation this used to lead to, of finding new physics just beyond the electroweak scale. Two cheers for string theory
Users visualize the Undo facility in different ways, depending on the situation and their expectations.
Once we have this information we will prepare a quotation with the aim of trying to ensure your aims and expectations are exceeded whilst remaining within your budget.
For some time he lived with the expectation that he was going to die.
Many hospitals deliberately tried to avoid challenging or openly discouraging the parents' hopes and expectations for a perfect or near-perfect recovery.
Afterwards, Conradt spoke of her team that had exceeded everybody's expectations except its own.
And events since the Report have exposed the emptiness of any such expectation.
In this light, even the discussion about successors to Heinlein nags at me, because I see it, perhaps unfairly, as another aspect of trying to come up with easy categorization in a field where such categorization is anything but easy and where labels create false expectation after false expectation. January « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
A suitable ‘expectation’ of Aristophanes is raised by the ludicrous circumstance of his having the hiccough, which is appropriately cured by his substitute, the physician The Symposium
Like many men since time immemorial, he is living more in hope than expectation.
They found that the couples whose expectations matched their relationship skills were most satisfied.
I hope their label recognises that although the album may not have reach their expectations, that, it is infact a quality album* and a fan fav, and don't just discard it. Undefined
Every four years, our brave lads and lasses tend to venture to foreign slopes with faint expectations, which will be duly fulfilled, as they wind up racing to a plucky 32nd in the giant slalom or 29th in the luge.
And it sounds like Jim and his wife, by not using the term stepfamily, that can be a very beneficial thing because they weren't putting labels on individuals, and therefore, they were removing the expectation that naturally comes with those labels. NPR Topics: News
Therefore the rational expectations hypothesis suggests a valid method of incorporating additional information when estimating macroeconomic models which contain expectation terms.
The Tokyo market was slightly lower, weighed by the Bank of Japan's tankan survey for December, which showed that sentiment among big manufact urers deteriorated for the first time in seven quarters, although the outcome was slightly better than economists' expectations. Asia Mostly Down; Tankan Hurts Japan
Her life became more and more squalid and her expectations diminished.
the expectation was spread both by word and by implication
These results run contrary to our expectations.
The fact is that the world is out of everyone's expectation. But some learn to forget, but others insist.
In contrast to the general picture in the technology sector, data storage minnow InTechnology recently had to put out a cautionary note that its profits were likely to be ‘significantly ahead’ of general stock market expectations.
Few human pursuits can conjure up such overblown expectations, fanned by holiday brochure photo-spreads showing impossibly white beaches domed by suspiciously azure skies.
The implication being that our expectation would be for something quite the opposite? Times, Sunday Times
Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache. The Younger Set
The women have to purchase expensive gowns and matching accessories to keep up with expectations.
The play explores children's honest if naive attempts to reconcile conflicts between rules of peer friendship and the expectations of parents.
His films do not pander to escapism or to the audiences settled expectations about entertainment.
On the field, the pretournament expectations were more pedestrian and luckily dashed. A Fun, Creative Germany
Anger triggers are situations in which expectations of fair play are violated.
High Expectations – Vick is joining a team that many believe will reach the Superbowl this year. The Eagles Signing Vick Will Fail | myFiveBest
He holds certain expectations about the teacher's role.
Will it meet the expectations of nurses, who want the government to settle their claim for pay parity in the same way it did for teachers in 2002?
Studies using those that do exist provide little support for the rational expectations hypothesis.
Penelope-like, she both weaves a narrative and contextual account of Lippi's life and work and unpicks her handiwork, creatively frustrating the reader's expectation of biographical closure.
Contrary to mathematical expectation, the presence of Rupa and Dullah did not decrease the loading time by two thirds.
Children can be made to suffer when they fail to match their parents' expectations.
Whatever our expectations are of Cotswold cuteness, we're out of step with the locals, who clearly haven't been alienated by the refurb.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The predictions of standard economic theory – the expectation that freely operating markets will produce a certain kind of optimality – only hold good as long as the markets are not marred by serious imperfections. Limitations of markets
I would say Aliens easily equals some of those other scripts you mentioned in mastering the genre they belong to in that it was somewhat transformative to the genre and the expectations of the genre. AVATAR Reaches $500 Million In Only 32 Days; Worldwide Gross an Astounding $1.62 billion – Collider.com
So this exercise in tilting at windmills can't even be described as quixotic, since that would imply some expectation of success, however delusional. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
This is an expectation which may well have been frustrated in the experimental situation.
And the of actuarial mathematic formula for calculating expectation - of - life under linear assumption of great significance.
The further that respectable society shuns the children, the more they follow the only route open to them and fulfil all negative expectations.
Adopting the language of restitution leads to the return of unjust enrichment, while estoppel enables the son to receive his expectations.
Our expectation was that orgasm would lead to greater total recall error by producing greater overestimation.
Part of the explanation is psychological: Pain perception is made much worse by worry, fear or the expectation of pain, he notes.
It may be a rather shallow and increasingly unrealistic kind of pash, but it's still there, still cooking away against all sense of reasonable expectation. Joe Cole has the talent and stage for a late-career flourish at Liverpool
How that expectation is calculated is certainly open to debate and criticism.
The concert was brilliant - it lived up to all our expectations.
This was true, but also significant, because by trotting out the figure of 20%, he created an expectation and sound byte that will come back to haunt him and the Chinese currency at the end of the summer if unattained. Diane Francis: Chinese Cheating
Profits so far this year are in line with expectations, with the residential side trading well. Times, Sunday Times
The idea of the Ruins of Rome strikes more but pleases less, and the title raises greater expectation than the performance gratifies. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
Expectation can be a heavy burden to carry - but the weight of no expectation is greater still.
Women are held down by the expectations of society.
But according to the insta-polls, the electorate, as opposed to what I once called the expectorate, seems to have concluded fairly clearly that Biden "won," possibly because what the electorate was expecting was a debate between two candidates for Vice-President, not the raw materials for some arcane calculation of who exceeded whose expectations. The Richmond Democrat
His mind was throbbing with expectation.
It will take time to adjust your expectations and find a new focus in your life. The Sun
He has probably thus created a legitimate expectation that he will continue to apply this policy.
To ensure that measurements were unbiased by the experimenters' expectations, the image files were randomly coded.
Yet the researchers failed to find a correlation between this expectation and jurors' viewing habits. Times, Sunday Times
In my view this is partly down to the way that our expectations have changed in line with the modern economy. Times, Sunday Times
She undertook work experience with a tour operator to find out whether the reality matched her expectations.
Expectations that contradict actual experience cause stress for survivors and potential conflicts with family, work, and the medical team.
We also modify our behaviour by observing the behaviour of those around us and by becoming influenced by social expectations and values. Know Your Own Mind
But I found my efforts repeatedly foiled by the expectations of the students themselves.
Worse, the sense of expectation will be unmanageably high. Times, Sunday Times
SVILUPPO: According to the Italian wires, the Holy See's message -- as communicated by Lombardi -- included the prayer that God might "illumine" the president-elect, that he might be able "to respond to the expectations and the hopes placed in him, effectively serving justice and right, seeking new paths to promote peace in the world, supporting the growth and dignity of peoples in respect to their human values and spiritual essence. Latest Articles
I felt as I had felt when the battalion first marched from Aire towards the firing-line, a kind of keying-up and wild expectation. Greenmantle
There was an air of expectation and great curiosity.
After a few years of operating with these expectations in view, departments would undertake self-assessments of their contributions and submit the results to their various deans.
With the expectations of Bank of England hiking rates next week the sterling will see some weakening.
They will have to seek coalition partners and to reassure international investors if they are to meet the expectations of their people. Times, Sunday Times
Ballyhaunis expectations were severely tested in the early stages of the half when a knee injury led to the retiral of midfielder, Michael Webb, and his removal by ambulance to hospital.
With the consistent intervention of human nature, expectations do creep in and that is where the fun starts.
The expectation among the villagers is that the new model would serve as a path-breaking example for the rest of the country to emulate.
This was a zinger of an interview also, and Terry actually didn't come out all that good, nor did Bill, although I had really low expectations for him, and he exceeded those until the end.
As Radcliffe shattered a world record in each one it appeared that she became more and more strangled by her own expectations and those of others.
Her elder daughter, in whom she placed the greatest trust, failed to match her expectations.
He said that the expectation and excitement prompted by the Jubilee across the nation has confounded the cynics.
A Mexican glass shop made unit (making assumptions here, of the many glass shops I have visited in Jalisco, somewhat primative by US standards) would likely have a butyl seal and maybe get a 5 - 10 year life (those were the expectations here in the past). Dual Pane wood windows
That requires changing the inflationary expectations of consumers and businesses. Times, Sunday Times
Carrying the name, along with all of Maurice's expectations, becomes too much for the free-spirited ex-con.
Differences may arise when the young people do not have the same expectations as their parents.
It is not an unreasonable hope, but it could be an impatient expectation that sees you selling yourself short. Times, Sunday Times
Women are too often constrained by family commitments and by low expectations.
“I take the liberty to enclose a copy of the amendments recommended by this Convention,” he wrote Washington from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on June 22, 1788; “they were drawn up more with a view of softening & conciliating the adoption to some who were moderate in their opposition than from an expectation that they would ever be engrafted in the Constitution.” Ratification
The hustle and hurry of the job persist in a surreal atmosphere of expectation and denial.
Both Milton Friedman's theory of monetarism and the rational expectations school of macroeconomics challenged the effectiveness of activist monetary policy.
After reading Landois 'paper I have been working at the stridulating organ in the lamellicorn beetles, in expectation of finding it sexual, but I have only found it as yet in two cases, and in these it was equally developed in both sexes. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
But Mr Trichet's concern is that higher headline rates could push up inflation expectations, leading to bigger pay demands, and so trigger a wage-price spiral, as in the 1970s.
The current expectation for spring growth is the fescue and lespedeza will take an early lead in the battle of the grasses, in which case TLC will be ready to fight back with herbicide. TradingMarkets
Most retail sales figures matched analyst expectations, but some big department stores undershot estimates. Blue Chips Take a Breather, Snap a Three-Day Win Streak
Now on to my other comments, first, the shuttle is a vehichle that was tasked with many missions/expectations early on that it had no business doing. STS-125 Space Shuttle Atlantis Lands at Edward Air Force Base - NASA Watch
She suspects that she got it because she had no expectations of success. Times, Sunday Times
A new government in Baghdad will have to do its utmost to meet popular expectations.
Camilla again denied the charge, and strove to prevail with her to undeceive the Baronet from any false expectations. Camilla
The volume of gifts collected to date has far exceeded anyone's expectations.
BofA-Merrill expects Latin American equities are to return 27% in local currency in 2011, thanks in large part to expectations that earnings will grow considerably 26% in U.S. dollar terms, anchored by domestic growth engines positioned to benefit from higher commodity prices, and low perceived macro risk given that countries, companies and households are underleveraged. Forget China, Look To Latin America
Expectation is a calculus of futurity, an extrapolation of narrativised past events into the future.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. Chuck Palahniuk
He has little expectation of passing the exam.
According to figures released on Friday, US consumer sentiment tumbled in early July as the stock market drubbing soured Americans' expectations.
On the other hand, some market pros pooh-pooh any October fears, noting that the market is on a roll, what with the Dow -- largely reflecting expectations of a zippier economy -- having ballooned more than 700 points since late July. Dan Dorfman: More Than Those Autumn Leaves Could Fall
Ed suffers under weight of expectation Isn't public life unfair? Times, Sunday Times
These self-images and expectations seem quite normal to us, patterned as they are after the traumatic attachment patterns of childhood.
Besides which, a complaint is usually uttered more to elicit sympathy than in real expectation that the grievance will be addressed. Times, Sunday Times
My scurrilous expectations were fired up by a headline on a handout from the Commission.
More recent comments have drifted in the direction of the threat to social partnership being created by unreal pay expectations.
In the 1590s he favoured a tactic of moderation in the expectation of a favourable political change.
Stoick, the Viking father whose body and expectations loom over the slightish Hiccup. Chicagotribune.com - News
Sergeant Troy , being entirely innocent of the practice of expectation, was never disappointed.
She felt them tremble with expectation, parting, a little out of control.
Natural gas will become the preeminent fuel of the 21 st century, according to widespread expectation.
And this proficience in navigation and discoveries may plant also an expectation of the further proficience and augmentation of all sciences, because it may seem that they are ordained by God to be coevals, that is, to meet in one age. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth
TY to everyone who wrote in about reminding people about this feature especially Megan from the Because I Read Twilight I Have Unrealistic Expectations In Men facebook group. Twilight Lexicon » MTV Awards Write In Campaigns
Why? because the doctrines he preached to them were directly contrary to their lusts and corrupt affections, and defeated their expectations of a worldly Messias, who should have answered their sensual desires with the plenties and glories of such an earthly kingdom, as they had wholly set their gross hearts and souls upon. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
We like endings to meet our expectations or it can get us down for some time. Times, Sunday Times
Giving us a brilliantly provocative model of how a text can be discussed against its own expectations, this book will prove highly productive for literary studies. The Times Literary Supplement
He couldn't have lived up to the expectation that has been thrust upon him.
Hitchcock seems disinterested in the relationship, tacking it on to fulfill audience expectations.
His normal expectation was to live on the edge of starvation.
Beginning with lyrical descriptions of visions experienced by the narrator, we develop expectations of a narrative arc that follows the structure of religious conversion or resurrection.
Given the tangle of alliances and expectations, this led to war.
And so can schoolchildren who volunteer to participate in athletic programs and whose expectation of privacy in the locker room is diminished.
The great strain for married couples in modernity is the absurdly high expectation of the marriage bond.
Its significance, for him, was that the dataller had known perfectly well that the place where he was working was unsafe, and had gone there in daily expectation of an accident. The Road to Wigan Pier
Is a good expectation, but also a perpetual dream - chaser!
I left the door and went back to the window, trying to ignore my skin prickling in expectation that someone would burst in at any minute.
With less than two years left in the initial testing phase, their expectations are being exceeded at almost every level.
The first two seasons set up an expectation that you'd be seeing people getting whacked every episode, and a lot of badass mob stuff - the kind of thing certain people can live vicariously through.
The expectation in both camps is that a bombing so close to election day would mean certain defeat for Peres.
Conversely someone who generally has good health might experience a significant impact on their quality of life from a relatively minor illness, such as tonsillitis, because they have high expectations of their health.
But she was one of those satisfactory creatures whose intercourse has the charm of discovery; whose integrity of faculty and expression begets a wish to know what they will say on all subjects or how they will perform whatever they undertake; so that they end by raising not only a continual expectation but a continual sense of fulfillment -- the systole and diastole of blissful companionship. Daniel Deronda
The costs of the vacation surpassed my expectation.
The aim of the focus groups was to identify the needs, expectations, and problems of consumers with respect to health information on the internet, with emphasis on how consumers appraise the quality of such information.
Was he simply play-acting, trying to keep expectations low so he would be underestimated?
But the biggest threat to your crucial five-star rating comes from an unexpected direction - the small percentage of guests with more unusual expectations. Times, Sunday Times
It is also the intention to match the expectations of the parties and their legal advisers against eventual outcome.
To one possessed of wisdom, the acts of a former period (thus washed off) and those of this life also (which are accomplished without expectation of fruit), do not become productive of any disagreeable consequence (such as immurement in hell). The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
The Dunblane boy chose to hit a backhand and vent his spleen by complaining about the high expectations of the British media.
Mr. Harvey had great expectations of his son, and pressured him to pursue the same career path.
Warrenpoint community needs to vocalise its hopes and expectations and make its voice heard.
Even less realistic is the expectation that an already overextended government could do it even if it wanted to.
Our efficient machines which promised to give us more leisure time have only increased our expectations and anxiety about being more productive. Christianity Today
Since the brother [134] of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes, and time that grows old in itself bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation .... From Chaucer to Tennyson
Thus, the reappointment contract provides nontenured faculty with no expectation of continued service after the annual contract's expiration.
_celibataire_ of the same name, from whom he had some expectations, but who died shortly after this esclandre, and did not name the Vicomte in his will. The Parisians — Volume 03
It had been a success far beyond their expectations.
Bradford supermarket giant Morrisons today warned annual profits would be substantially below expectations as trading flagged at unconverted Safeway stores.
Movies must meet the expectations of the broader non-comics reading audience who are aware that Superman, Batman and Spider-Man are good guys who fly from a phone box, drive a big car and spin webs, any size, and that's about it. murren Empire News
They may also have the expectation that alcohol makes it easier to make sexual advances, and thus they may use alcohol intentionally for achieving such a purpose.
Canberran does not have the same kind of expectation as Evans, having never finished on the podium. The Age News Headlines
They can thereby create patient expectation of the level of demand that will be serviced.
Austin's linguistic distinction mirrors the crucial difference between the expectational and conventional theories of promising. Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych
The result is contrary to expectation.
So, in AKV, Lewis (1946, 305) claimed that the full statement of a probability judgement should be of the form “That c, having property F, will also have property G, is credible on data D, with expectation a/b and reliability R”, and is assertable in whatever sense Clarence Irving Lewis
Civil War combat had hardened him to a pessimistic expectation of repeated failure.
In that case the rational expectation of the average price level must be P 2.
No publishing house of our size had ever won the prize and we consequently couldn't afford to go in there with high expectations.
What counts most now is that the process of military justice be fair, as I have every expectation it will be.
In the absence of dominance, the expectation of the variance is a second moment in gene frequencies, and the variance of the variance a tractable fourth moment.
The results of the competition exceeded our expectations.
There was a general expectation that he would win.
But if you free yourself of these expectations and regress back to a seventh grade mentality, you will have a great time.
For those of us who fulfill our baptismal call to follow Jesus in and through the sacrament of matrimony, kenosis is the call to a self-emptying or dying to our needs, hopes, and expectations.
Shaw traced the origins of these expectations to the wreck of the Birkenhead, a troopship and one of the Royal Navy's earliest steamships that had hit a rock and foundered off the coast of South Africa in 1852. Why must a captain never leave a sinking ship?
He uses extremely creative images of the devil and demons in order to slyly subvert our expectations.
Halfway pre-tax profits exceeded expectations but were still off by almost 20 per cent. Times, Sunday Times
P 500 companies showed 190 with earnings above expectations, 94 with earnings below expectation and 36 equaling expectations.
Moreover, official forecasts of the economy play an important role in shaping those expectations. Times, Sunday Times
Every violation of the law is damaging to the good order and expectations of society.
In other words, I suggest that accomplishment may again outstrip expectations. Some Economic and Financial Consequences of Defence
Indeed by this time the whole party were gathered, and in impatient expectation that the dinner would make up to them in some degree for the various disappointments of the morning. Melbourne House
So it was really beyond my expectations to see so many people reading my blog. Times, Sunday Times
It is understood that the Government has done nothing to discourage City expectations that it will curtail its gilt-edged buying programme.
It was as much climbing as marching, and, as Bill Gedge said, "all agin the collar;" but the men did not seem to mind, as they mounted higher and higher in the expectation of finding that the next turn of the zigzag was the top of the pass. Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills
Her sentence is nonetheless unduly harsh and rather stupidly unimaginative, as well as completely out of kilter with community expectations.
When her expectations are sadly disappointed, she crashes a chic Montreal party and desperately tries to fit in.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
I came to Morocco with minimal expectations and prejudgments.
When our expectations are disappointed, we blame ourselves rather than Nature.
Faced with instant gratification expectations, has Obama reached too far in tying his presidency to his $3.6 trillion budget proposal? Turning an ocean liner in an era of speedboats
What is particularly striking is the bounce in expectations concerning future business.
His magnificent grey velvet suit seemed to be floating aimlessly in a raging sea, as if petrified in the expectation of waking.

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