The subject varies greatly depending on social norms and community expectations.

And people's expectations concerning welfare, growth, education and other social and economic needs have to be met.

These constraints are due not to the absence of egalitarian provisions but to the weight of social expectations.

Poverty, social inequality, injustice, social exclusion and the estrangement between expectations and reality bring about an element of instability, working against the strengthening of democracy and development.

The code of etiquette in Japan governs the expectations of social behavior in the country and is considered very important.

Social malaise is deepening as expectations and actual prospects for economic improvement are likely to remain poor for the foreseeable future.

As expected, Chilean social media users have taken notice, commenting on their expectations for this new way of interacting with their leaders.

Seminar expectations

Goals and expectations

Others have lower expectations.

The expectations are high.

But that measure, instead of restoring financial calm, led to an escalation of expectations regarding what the state could and should do, and exacerbated social tensions.

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.

Our expectations are indeed minimal.

The combination of economic growth (now in reverse because of the global crisis) and atrocious levels of inequality and social segmentation will continue to breed the same unmet expectations and social resentment that cleared Chávez s path to power.

However, the progress remains insufficient, vis à vis the standards set by the international community and the expectations of the local people for improved economic and social conditions.

President Mohamed Morsi s government struggled to address Egypt s inherited economic and social crises in the face of the enormous public expectations created by the 2011 revolution, whose protagonists sought not only freedom, but also economic development and social justice.

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

The first useful lesson concerns expectations.

Defining performance expectations for programme delivery

But it is also a phase that is characterized by expectations for a better standard of living, justice, human rights, freedom, rapid development, social services and, of course, participatory governance.

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.

Under both traditions, the rule of law requires a living body of rules and practices that adapts to changes in values, institutions, practices, expectations, and behaviors in a complex social system.

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.

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.