My own parents had anything but low expectations for me and my sister.

We love challenges, but when expectations are low, trust me, we will sink to them.

We are alarmed that expectations for COP17 are so low. Where is the global leadership that must respond urgently?

Nominal interest rates for periphery countries sovereign debt have remained extremely low, and, even when taking into account expectations of very low inflation (or even deflation), real interest rates are low. The eurozone now is facing not only a financial crisis, but a stagnation crisis.

Public expectations of possible peace dividends remain high, but there is a general perception of low Government responsiveness to the needs of the population.

Phelps key observation in macroeconomics was that the relationship between inflation and unemployment is affected by expectations, and since expectations themselves are endogenous they change over time so, too, will the relationship between unemployment and inflation. If a government attempts to push the unemployment rate too low, inflation will increase, and so, too, will inflationary expectations.

Seminar expectations

At the same time, a host of new regulations to promote financial stability are forcing banks, pension funds, and insurance companies to stock up on government securities. Thus, today's low interest rates are more a reflection of distortions in financial markets than of low growth expectations.

Environmental NGOs worry that raising expectations could worsen the fallout from failure, damaging efforts at the national level to build low carbon economies. But this threatens to become a self fulfilling prophecy.

Goals and expectations

Goals and expectations

Were your expectations met?

Great Expectations for the Renminbi

The world's expectations are high.

Hence, their expectations were met.

Our expectations are indeed minimal.

In reality, of course, QE whether the expectation or execution of it would affect both interest rates, and the inflation expectations that are derived from them. So, if ECB President Mario Draghi wants to highlight the fact that nominal interest rates are lower today than last August, he must also acknowledge that, given low inflation expectations, real interest rates have moved little.

LONDON Speaking in the happier economic times of 2005, Mervyn King then, as now, Governor of the Bank of England stressed the importance of entrenching public expectations of stable, low inflation. He warned that, if you let inflation expectations drift too far away from the target, you can end up in quite serious difficulty with a costly process to bring them back again.

The monetary easing undertaken by the US Federal Reserve raised expectations for a devaluation of the US dollar that might help US exports. But domestic savings remain low in the face of persistently high levels of public debt.

It's about our beliefs and expectations.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

She lived up to our expectations.

Defining performance expectations for programme delivery

At the same time, the traditional engine of economic development industrialization is likely to operate at much lower capacity. The resulting combination of high public expectations and low income producing capacity will be a major challenge for developing economies everywhere.

His response was contrary to our expectations.

Other people's expectations affect how we behave.

Its modernization was far beyond my expectations.

The result is opposite to our expectations.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

Expectations of health care also continued to rise.

Sometimes we even have these formalized cultural expectations.

OK. We can violate your expectations about shape.

So why didn't agriculture markets perform to expectations?

How can we respond to these expectations today?

Employment levels globally had fallen short of expectations.

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

(a) Crisis of public confidence and rising public expectations.

Falling oil prices and the prospect of a prolonged period of low inflation also seem to have affected inflation expectations. Given the potency of the recent oil price shock, the risk is that inflation may temporarily slip into negative territory in the coming months.

Private sector expectations from the WTO negotiations on trade facilitation

Private sector expectations from the WTO negotiations on trade facilitation

Canada will do its part to respond to those expectations.

By continuing to shunt Roma children into special schools, where expectations are low and results still lower, EU member states are squandering hundreds of millions of euros annually in productivity and tax revenues. The message is simple improving opportunities for Roma is morally right and economically smart.

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

He had the expectations of his senatorial father and Washington, D.C.