CARICOM States believe, given these factors, that UNDCP can and will meet our expectations.

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

Our expectations are indeed minimal.

And we keep setting our expectations higher and higher.

After all, we were ambitious and set the bar very high.

The report falls short of our expectations.

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

Everything will be within the context and our expectations.

It raises our expectations of everybody in the world.

What can we and he expect?

In each instance, our expectations are defied.

So after we had Declan, we kind of recalibrated our expectations.

First, it is important that expectations be kept modest.

Otherwise, our expectations for the beginning of the twenty first century will not be met.

Because the sixth need is to contribute beyond ourselves.

The record shows that the results have fallen far short of our expectations.

There will be a million fold improvement in what you can get for the same price in computing by 2030.

This outstanding result gives us hope that our expectations can be fulfilled.

And if our prognostications are scientifically correct, before long the great miracle will have been performed.

It must display the will to redirect the course of history towards our expectations.

In this way, a discrepancy has come about between our expectations of the United Nations and the ability to deliver on them.

Let's give an example of where we think this is going to go.

Always on the look out for things that might be different for our expectations.

There are important distributional consequences, and they're not what you always might think.

We believe that this resolution, though falling short of our expectations, marks the beginning of a more fruitful partnership for solution of the perennial debt problem, which for too long has plagued the developing countries in particular.

To achieve our goals in the area of peace and development, the United Nations must heed the words spoken in this Hall and must be a strong, credible Organization with the means to meet our expectations.

But in the circumstances the overall assessment falls far short of our expectations.

What you also notice is that in any case our perception is leaky.

Although it fell short of some of our expectations, this year apos s World Conference on Human Rights was an important milestone in the efforts to protect the rights of individuals and vulnerable sectors of society.

Thus, the results of the 30 January elections may well be below our expectations.

However, we are concerned that adequate financial resources for the implementation of the programme have fallen short of expectations.

However, we are still far from reaching our expectations, in view of the emergence of new forms of challenges to international peace and security.

Transparency in function and representativeness in composition are important if the Council is to fulfil our heightened expectations.

So to me, it's an experiment that's waiting to happen, and if it confirms the prediction, then we should have a very powerful tool.

Our expectations of what the oceans can produce is something that we don't really appreciate because we haven't seen it in our lifetimes.

That paper provides a point of departure for further negotiations, even if it falls short of our expectations in many areas.

Disarmament has not taken place automatically since the end of the cold war, thus disappointing our high and premature expectations.

With the cold war behind us, it is often frustrating to note that progress in this field has not kept pace with expectations.

So one of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

like mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song, which I'd like to play for you some of our predictions for what that song will be like.

However, a few remarks may be useful on the significance of the agreement reached and our expectations.

There have been huge leaps. There will be a million fold improvement in what you can get for the same price in computing by 2030.

Years after that historic opportunity, we have come to realize that our optimism was unjustified.

We walk across graduation stages, high on our overblown expectations, and when we float back down to earth, we realize we don't know what the heck it means to actually save the world anyway.

As with many of the thinkers we just met, sometimes our wildest guesses