Obama s ascension to the US presidency represents a revolutionary landmark in America s history that should not be allowed to fall victim to inflated expectations.

More importantly, the fears underlying the bicycle theory are wildly inflated.

Likewise, reactions to the Karadžić decision show how inflated the perceived stakes are.

Aron exaggerated the power of reason, while Sartre inflated the power of action.

Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and sulfur have been detected in the planet's inflated atmosphere.

Seminar expectations

There was a housing bubble, and loans were made on the basis of inflated prices.

In short, Israel s current leadership has inflated security into a surreal new cult, trumping morality.

Kan s status quo approach to alliance management won t hold up long, because Hatoyama s bungling has inflated Okinawans expectations about evicting the Marines. The current governor will likely block any construction to relocate a base on the island, exercising a de facto veto, particularly with the gubernatorial election due in late November.

Goals and expectations

That helped Germany and France, but it also inflated real estate bubbles in Spain and Ireland.

Rather than spurring investment in plant and equipment, low interest rates inflated a real estate bubble.

Others have lower expectations.

The expectations are high.

Clearly, trade data are being inflated as companies carry out fake transactions to bring capital into the country.

)It is likely that this figure is inflated by a substantial number of personal blogs that mention fashion.

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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.

Issuing the stock to the public at an inflated price a year ago, the shares initially traded even higher.

But, while the resulting surge in capital flows to emerging markets stimulated economic growth, it also inflated asset bubbles.

Now Gaza residents are forced to apply for passports in Ramallah, and they use agencies which charge inflated amounts.

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

The first useful lesson concerns expectations.

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Britain joined America s Iraq adventure with the same inflated perceptions of its military capacity and diplomatic clout that trapped Bush.

We lived the better part of the subsequent decade with a misguided sense of extended prosperity and inflated a financial bubble.

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.

Periodical physical verifications were not conducted, and asset values were incorrectly recorded with data in some cases inflated by millions of dollars.

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.

Sustaining a high budget deficit over many years will lead to an unmanageable debt buildup, unless that debt is inflated away or restructured.

The real estate bubble inflated and collapsed partly because millions of Americans borrowed more than they could afford to repay and knew it.