His response was contrary to our expectations.

Contrary to many people's expectations, the Sudan Liberation Army did not launch an attack on the day of the signing of the peace agreement.

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.

Contrary to expectations, the collapse of communism did not bolster international cooperation. On the contrary, all international negotiations on global warming, financial regulation, and nuclear disarmament (despite the efforts of US President Barack Obama and former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to conclude a bilateral nuclear disarmament agreement) launched since the end of the twentieth century have failed.

Contrary to the expectations of transparency advocates, greater disclosure of government information does not make public discourse more rational and less paranoid. If anything, it fuels conspiracy theories (there is nothing more suspicious than the claim of absolute transparency).

She lived up to our expectations.

Seminar expectations

Anything else would run contrary to our values, it would run contrary to the wishes of the people on the ground, it would run contrary to our interests.

The result is opposite to our expectations.

Goals and expectations

Goals and expectations

Very much to the contrary.

Expectations of health care also continued to rise.

So why didn't agriculture markets perform to expectations?

How can we respond to these expectations today?

Were your expectations met?

Canada will do its part to respond to those expectations.

But I don't want to create too many expectations.

Great Expectations for the Renminbi

The world's expectations are high.

Hence, their expectations were met.

Our expectations are indeed minimal.

His behavior is contrary to his belief.

It's about our beliefs and expectations.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

Defining performance expectations for programme delivery

National systems are expected to deliver security and respond to growing public expectations.

Other people's expectations affect how we behave.

Its modernization was far beyond my expectations.

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

All such attacks are contrary to international humanitarian law.

Others apparently a minority have ruled to the contrary.

To a man, they were excellent, continuing to exceed expectations on this upward trajectory.

The problem is not that cap and trade is an ivory tower theory that cannot work in the real world on the contrary, its performance surpassed expectations. In the 1980 s, it enabled lead to be phased out more rapidly than predicted and at an estimated annual savings of 250 million relative to the command and control approach.

We will need to listen carefully to them and to the expectations of their people.

Sometimes we even have these formalized cultural expectations.

OK. We can violate your expectations about shape.

Employment levels globally had fallen short of expectations.

Those exposed to agent metaphors had higher expectations that price trends would continue.

On the contrary, they're sisters.

There is no contrary evidence.

Rather, the contrary is true.

On the contrary! He shall be flung to the Crusher.

On the contrary! He shall be flung to the Crusher.