Such expectations are patently unrealistic.

I think families expectations and the career guidance given to students are unrealistic and not that helpful.

Mariangel Calderon recommends on her blog El Ovario (The ovary) not to have unrealistic expectations after no strings attached sex.

The kinds of expectations for real estate prices that have informed public thinking during the recent bubbles were often totally unrealistic.

OIOS also observed that some HOAs had unrealistic expectations about the support to be expected from missions, especially with regard to movement of personnel and cargo requests.

But the adequate servicing of the debt and, therefore, the performance of the securities, were based on expectations of continued rises in housing prices that proved to be unrealistic.

Unrealistic expectations exacerbate these psychological impediments to progress. In an era of instant access, people often expect immediate relief from symptoms, which is difficult to achieve when it comes to chronic pain.

That is both unrealistic and unreasonable.

The plan was unrealistic and failed.

That condition is simply unrealistic. It is simply not feasible.

Seminar expectations

The current American initiative sounds reasonable, but it is essentially unrealistic.

Military action was unrealistic for so small a country as Mauritius.

In relation to public private partnerships, it was pointed out that many of the early expectations and hopes for such devices had been unrealistic and that it was now possible to see not only opportunities but also limitations and to address how to overcome the latter.

Unfortunately, Obama s all encompassing promises might prove to be just as unrealistic.

Their exports should not be subjected to unrealistic rules of origin conditions.

Goals and expectations

Obama may soon learn that his timetable for withdrawal from Iraq is unrealistic.

OIOS often found that the performance indicators used were unrealistic or not measurable.

Others have lower expectations.

The expectations are high.

Devolution might sound unrealistic, but once upon a time so did the European Union.

Repatriation of Iraqis is unrealistic and definitely out of question for any foreseeable future.

Their desires and ambitions are not unrealistic in the circumstances, but they are frustrated.

Goals for such projects tend to be broad, qualitative, stretch unrealistic and success driven.

Campaign time frames were often unrealistic and there was ineffective mobilization of local resources.

Great Expectations for the Renminbi

An Age of Diminished Expectations?

The Summit of Low Expectations

The world's expectations are high.

Hence, their expectations were met.

Our expectations are indeed minimal.

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

The first useful lesson concerns expectations.

Defining performance expectations for programme delivery

Calls for an agreement on the most controversial elements of a final peace settlement are unrealistic.

Events in Belarus and Ukraine have made the Euro Asian Economic Community project appear increasingly unrealistic.

Fibonacci gave an (unrealistic) biological example, on the growth in numbers of a theoretical rabbit population.

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.

The Government of Southern Sudan suffers from serious financial constraints, owing to unrealistic assumptions about its oil revenues.

If there were no change, it was unrealistic to expect development aid to reach its intended beneficiaries intact.