Our expectations are indeed minimal.

It's about our beliefs and expectations.

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

She lived up to our expectations.

Naturally, we are delighted to participate in this debate, and we are doing so from the perspective of our practical experience and our expectations.

His response was contrary to our expectations.

The result is opposite to our expectations.

The expectations are high. Let us take on the challenge, and let our legacy be no more poverty.

The world's expectations are high.

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

Pro speras, speras, hope in accordance with our hopes and expectations.

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

It is now the responsibility of us, the Member States, to mobilize our efforts in order to ensure that those expectations are met.

It weakens the document, which does not live up to our expectations and goals.

Knowing their personal qualities, I remain convinced that under their enlightened leadership the outcome of our discussions will meet our expectations.

It has also left a lot undone and has not met our expectations in several areas.

The final document adopted yesterday at the summit (resolution 60 1) has unquestionably fallen short of our expectations.

In all those cases, the Court has met our high expectations for authoritative language on matters of international law.

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

If all of our expectations of attaining our goals have not been met, we must do even more to further coordinate our efforts to find new mechanisms for resolving strategic problems.

For many men and boys, expectations are the complete opposite they are supposed to be sexually active.

I appreciated the real estate values beyond everybody's expectations and the owners of the park turned me down for eight million dollars last year, and said, Mr. Strickland, you ought to get the Civic Leader of the Year Award because you've appreciated our property values beyond our wildest expectations.

Seminar expectations

We recall that our heads of State or Government, at the end of the High level Plenary Meeting, expressed similar expectations.

Whenever I am absent, Ambassador Calderón will take the Chair, and I am sure that his capabilities are such that our work, the dialogue and consultations, will proceed in keeping with the expectations we all have for this last phase of our session.

Goals and expectations

Goals and expectations

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

have been unearthed. In this broader context the expectations on the CD are truly high.

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

The review clause would enable us all, collectively, to weigh the actions and contributions of Council members objectively and honestly against our collective expectations for better security and for peace and to address their delivery with regard to these expectations.

That is why the General Assembly devoted many meetings to discussing the great problems of our times and to seeking appropriate solutions that would meet the expectations of our peoples.

True, there are bright spots India, Spain, and the United Kingdom are beating expectations. The United States recovery is solid.

I believe that all of us have come here with the clear conviction that we are still far from reaching our objectives, and that we cannot fail to meet the expectations that have been created.

Were your expectations met?

Great Expectations for the Renminbi

Hence, their expectations were met.

However, economic growth and expectations are constantly threatened by inappropriate macroeconomic policies, poor economic management and external shocks.

These constraints are due not to the absence of egalitarian provisions but to the weight of social expectations.

At the same time, we can no longer plan our national development on the expectations of enjoying preferential access to the markets of the world.

However, I must say that the outcome document does not meet our expectations and that discussion must continue until a broader consensus has been obtained.

In the developing world, too, the vast majority of people have started to experience sustained improvement in living standards and are rapidly developing similar growth expectations. But will future generations, particularly in advanced economies, realize such expectations?

Freedom from want, freedom from fear and freedom to live in dignity must be the leading goals of our Organization so that we can meet the rightful expectations of our peoples across the globe.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

Defining performance expectations for programme delivery