The path to today s crisis was predictable.

Requirements were also lower than anticipated under maintenance services for laundry, catering, waste disposal and for perimeter fencing and gates.

As for Europe, it did nothing which was foreseeable.

This one was very unexpected because, you know, I grew up with the scientific worldview, and I was shocked learning how much of my life is governed by irrational forces.

Iran has strengthened its influence in Iraq, and has helped to keep the Assad regime, a key ally, in power much longer than expected.

The US government s misguided move from potential mediator and problem solver to active backer of the Syrian insurrection was, predictably, a terrible mistake.

Predictably, the Fed s critics are up in arms.

As expected, the arrival of summer has resulted in an increased level of activity of opposing militant forces.

Progress in achieving the MDGs is far from what was originally envisaged.

The demarcation exercise, expected to last approximately 96 weeks, has been delayed, and pillar emplacement along the boundary will most likely commence in 2006.

Initially, there was little basis for re pricing them rationally, because the event (a peacetime decline in US house prices) was unprecedented.

Many of the inhabitants had already fled, as the village had been on the front lines since April.

Well, he's right. I've had honest to goodness high blood pressure for a dozen years now, same age my father got it, and it's a real disease. It's not pre hypertension, it's actual hypertension, high blood pressure.

The HIV AIDS crisis is far worse than anticipated, and infant, child and maternal mortality remains unacceptably high in many parts of the world.

As it was the custom of the time, Copernicus was actually simply buried in an unmarked grave, together with 14 others in that cathedral.

The BRICS arose at a time when much of the world, especially the advanced economies, was mired in crisis. The fall of the West narrative ran alongside that of the rise of the rest.

It was really something.

Sami was already my boss.

As expected, returnee figures fell significantly around the beginning of the rainy season but began to rise again by September.

For instance, the reason members resign is related much less frequently than expected to dissatisfaction with the political culture.

If convicted, Karoui faces up to three years in prison.

Instead of aligning himself with Khamenei, as expected, Ahmadinejad began to promote a nationalist, anti clerical agenda, effectively using Khamenei s resources to challenge the supreme leader s authority and to establish his own economic network and sphere of influence.

When the revolutions of 1848 in Europe were rolled back the following year, everything was nonetheless different, as we now know.

On 12 September prior to their announced deadline, the PFLP used explosives to destroy the empty planes, as they anticipated a counterstrike.

Nonetheless, although progress has been somewhat slower than expected, the unification process in Mostar remains on track.

And it was absolutely wonderful.

My last husband was really stupid.

Finally, the establishment of the UD in the Philippines is still pending.

The variance of 521,600 under this heading is attributable to the rental of fewer than planned speedboats and pushers.

This approach, however, runs the risk that modules may be coded without having a clear idea of how they link to other parts of the system, and that such linking may not be as easy as first thought.

But the damage had already been done.

The president s statement was unexpected.

All that was not entirely anticipated when the Convention was concluded in 1982.

Moreover, the deterioration was predictable history shows that the real stock of government debt explodes in the wake of recessions caused by financial crises.

The sharp drop in population growth in the period 1990 2000 is not the result of a large drop in the natural increase.

Tradition says that before journeying to Portugal, John had anticipated future events and had said to his son Pedro, Brazil will soon be separated from Portugal if so, put the crown on your head before some adventurer grabs it.

The global economy and the US economy, in particular is growing faster than expected, and world oil prices are above 100 per barrel.

In particular, GDP growth is expected to be 1 per cent lower than predicted earlier in Sri Lanka owing to the effects of the tsunami.

Our gross domestic product (GDP) has exceeded the goals we set, and investment in the fight against poverty, has, as a proportion of GDP, also been slightly higher than forecast.

But what if there actually is a fire?

Bassel Khartabil was truly an unCommon ally.

But, given the dire circumstances at the outset, we have done far better than could have been expected and, indeed, was expected by many in 2001.

Notwithstanding the return to Bouake of Mr Soro and of the measures being taken by the impartial forces to ensure the security of FN ministers in Government controlled areas, a number of FN ministers have, as yet, not returned to the Government as was expected from the Pretoria Declaration.

CAMBRIDGE Jim Yong Kim s appointment as World Bank president may have been predictable, given the long standing tradition that renders the selection an American prerogative.

Ali helped make it possible for us to see Iraq as what it was, not as what the Green Zone was.