Our expectations are indeed minimal.

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

In each instance, our expectations are defied.

No surprise, then, that governments have sought to manage our expectations carefully.

However, the year did not deliver to the full of our expectations.

It weakens the document, which does not live up to our expectations and goals.

Knowing their personal qualities, I remain convinced that under their enlightened leadership the outcome of our discussions will meet our expectations.

It has also left a lot undone and has not met our expectations in several areas.

Naturally, we are delighted to participate in this debate, and we are doing so from the perspective of our practical experience and our expectations.

In all those cases, the Court has met our high expectations for authoritative language on matters of international law.

If all of our expectations of attaining our goals have not been met, we must do even more to further coordinate our efforts to find new mechanisms for resolving strategic problems.

Seminar expectations

I appreciated the real estate values beyond everybody's expectations and the owners of the park turned me down for eight million dollars last year, and said, Mr. Strickland, you ought to get the Civic Leader of the Year Award because you've appreciated our property values beyond our wildest expectations.

We recall that our heads of State or Government, at the end of the High level Plenary Meeting, expressed similar expectations.

Goals and expectations

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.

The review clause would enable us all, collectively, to weigh the actions and contributions of Council members objectively and honestly against our collective expectations for better security and for peace and to address their delivery with regard to these expectations.

Others have lower expectations.

The expectations are high.

When we act as if we really believe that someone can be better, is better, then they will often rise to our expectations.

It is now the responsibility of us, the Member States, to mobilize our efforts in order to ensure that those expectations are met.

Great Expectations for the Renminbi

An Age of Diminished Expectations?

The Summit of Low Expectations

Such expectations are patently unrealistic.

The world's expectations are high.

Hence, their expectations were met.

The final document adopted yesterday at the summit (resolution 60 1) has unquestionably fallen short of our expectations. However, it provides us with guidelines that will enable us to carry out our work.

At the same time, we can no longer plan our national development on the expectations of enjoying preferential access to the markets of the world.

However, I must say that the outcome document does not meet our expectations and that discussion must continue until a broader consensus has been obtained.

Freedom from want, freedom from fear and freedom to live in dignity must be the leading goals of our Organization so that we can meet the rightful expectations of our peoples across the globe.

The first useful lesson concerns expectations.

Defining performance expectations for programme delivery

With reference to the cluster entitled Freedom from fear , contrary to our expectations, the report takes some positions that we feel ought to have been more balanced.

Again, maintaining realistic expectations must be paramount.

So, contrary to expectations, things stayed put.

Those expectations turned out to be illusory.

The album did not initially meet expectations.

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 access to huge online archives of information about the war doesn t guarantee that it is organized or presented in ways that accord with our expectations of war reporting.