Great Expectations for the Renminbi

Soaring speeches, high hopes, and great expectations have yielded minimal returns.

The international community has great expectations for reaching a positive outcome in Copenhagen.

Millions of immigrants arrived with great expectations of making a country and making ittheir country.

Monetarists hail the low inflation era as their great achievement. They take pride in the expert management of expectations by central banks.

Costa Rica had great expectations of the outcome of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization to be held in Hong Kong.

SINGAPORE US President Barack Obama s foreign policy landscape is littered with deflated balloons. Soaring speeches, high hopes, and great expectations have yielded minimal returns.

Seminar expectations

Goals and expectations

It is therefore with great expectations that we await the resumption of the fourth session of the Assembly of States Parties at the end of November.

Others have lower expectations.

The expectations are high.

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Such expectations are patently unrealistic.

The world's expectations are high.

Hence, their expectations were met.

Our expectations are indeed minimal.

That is why the General Assembly devoted many meetings to discussing the great problems of our times and to seeking appropriate solutions that would meet the expectations of our peoples.

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

The first useful lesson concerns expectations.

Defining performance expectations for programme delivery

My Government also has high expectations for what the Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) can accomplish when established, and we note with great satisfaction that the CTED is breaking new ground.

Again, maintaining realistic expectations must be paramount.

So, contrary to expectations, things stayed put.

Those expectations turned out to be illusory.

In each instance, our expectations are defied.

The album did not initially meet expectations.

Ahmedinejad s election two years ago came with great expectations, with the new president pledging to bring oil prices to the dining table of all households in Iran, and to crack down on corruption.

Sometimes we even have these formalized cultural expectations.

OK. We can violate your expectations about shape.

It is the government s job to stabilize expectations.

And such expectations can only end in disappointment.

If expectations are low, talks can only fail.

Employment levels globally had fallen short of expectations.

But there has clearly been a great deal of reliance on this strategy, with companies shedding employees not only because they must, but often because they have not met Wall Street analysts financial expectations.

First, it is important that expectations be kept modest.

Yet the current situation is shifting expectations into reverse.

Today, the Fed is again playing the expectations game.

Cultivating high expectations without progress could even be dangerous.

America s unipolar expectations have not been ratified by events.

As education levels rise, so do expectations about work.

But Joulani's announcement didn't actually meet his group's expectations.

Yet the idea was suddenly revived two or three years ago. The context this time was a desire to achieve expectations of greater monetary stimulus, in order to facilitate recovery from the great recession of 2008 2009.

That is why Sierra Leone welcomes and with great expectations the Secretary General's recommendation to create a Peacebuilding Commission charged with the responsibility of promoting assistance for post conflict countries to transit from war to lasting peace.