Every violation of the law is damaging to the good order and expectations of society. |
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Be realistic about your expectations and allow yourself to roll with the punches. |
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We need to understand your aims and expectations as well as any budget restraints you might have. |
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The waboom forms part of South Africas fynbos vegetation and lives up to expectations with its adaptations to fire. |
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Milne gives a big Aberdonian laugh and says how much she loves confounding expectations. |
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Sometimes, I abominate feminism, for it discloses to me that what surrounds me is wrong, and it increases my expectations for a better society. |
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It's a quirky little film, but it packs a wallop, toying with our expectations. |
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I did ponder at one time whether it would be a good idea to put together a contract of expectations for choir members. |
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Interest had waned over time although expectations were high that the site clean-up might re-awaken it. |
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At the outset, comunicate with your clients about their goals and expectations in adopting a qualified plan. |
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Like in earlier wargames, the rigors of wargaming changed expectations of a war with the Soviets. |
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Bolstered by a handful of Academy award nominations, I had high expectations for this film. |
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Directory assistance provider Conduit said it had made a profit after tax in its last quarter, three months ahead of expectations. |
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The women have to purchase expensive gowns and matching accessories to keep up with expectations. |
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The washout heightened expectations for the five-match series against the world's top-ranked teams starting at Wellington tomorrow. |
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A bull market usually accompanies expectations of widespread good corporate results. |
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But they agree its new parliament, for the moment, will be too weak to meet expectations. |
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Advance bookings exceeded all expectations and well over 1,000 anglers journeyed to the resort to compete. |
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Earnings per share of 107.1 cent for last year were a whacking 22 per cent ahead of market expectations. |
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Playing down to his sexist expectations worked, but the idea that because she was a woman she must not be a threat still rankled. |
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Statements like these indicate that most advisors are meeting the expectations of student advisees. |
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Public Enemy's Chuck D is constantly calling on rappers to live up to their potential rather than down to expectations. |
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The festival is a training ground for aerialists, now in its third year, and has well exceeded expectations. |
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No publishing house of our size had ever won the prize and we consequently couldn't afford to go in there with high expectations. |
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The shop's optimism is set against other major retailers' expectations for flat trading next year. |
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Her sentence is nonetheless unduly harsh and rather stupidly unimaginative, as well as completely out of kilter with community expectations. |
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Contrary to expectations, moving leopards around has only aggravated the problem. |
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The application is now in daily use and is exceeding the client's performance expectations by a wide margin. |
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He expressed expectations that Germany will reassume its leading position in commodity exchange with Bulgaria and in the field of investments. |
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The code of ethics falls short of the expectations of many because there are no clear-cut penalties stated for recalcitrant legislators. |
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The expectations are further reinforced in those school systems where children are streamed by ability. |
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But, once again, the last thing the town needs is airy-fairy suggestions about creating a new image creating false expectations for the future. |
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It takes place in the synagogue on Yom Kippur, introducing expectations of an ultimate reckoning. |
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When you don't have a strong sense of self, you become a reflection of other people's hopes, wishes, expectations and opinions about you. |
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The good news for lovers of overwrought kitsch is that the second series promises to live up, or down, to expectations. |
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The key is using rock-bottom rates to help shift executives' expectations in a more positive direction and revive animal spirits. |
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These claims have been based on false hopes and expectations that have been built up by woolly-headed lawmakers. |
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Talking of great expectations, I had my first workshop for The Smoking Room today. |
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Whatever our expectations are of Cotswold cuteness, we're out of step with the locals, who clearly haven't been alienated by the refurb. |
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It's an extremely odd little movie, all in all, and it's a little tough to understand the high expectations. |
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But if you free yourself of these expectations and regress back to a seventh grade mentality, you will have a great time. |
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As for revenue growth, investors still want to see it, but they've reined in their expectations. |
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They made allowance for what could be realistically achieved in the time available and adjusted their expectations accordingly. |
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The confusion can be traced to the uniformitarian expectations that the deposits were laid down over eons of time. |
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We used the test with Yates's correction to avoid spurious rejection of the null hypothesis when expectations are too small. |
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We keep our distance, lower our expectations, stay cool, aloof, and separate. |
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The 25 per cent year-on-year jump in revenues was also in line with expectations. |
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Thus, the initial hopes and expectations for remedially oriented special education often go unmet. |
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What changed, he said, wasn't so much the behavior of the police, but the expectations of the poor, especially the minority youth. |
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Her expectations made me feel that I could do it, that being Latina did not mean that I was less, or that being Latina was a reason to do less. |
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Aspirations best represent the dreams of young women, while expectations reflect a realistic view of the world. |
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By this time, our expectations have gone so negative, that even a zero seems positive. |
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He creates a character who society considers bourgeois and sexually repressed but who does not conform to such expectations. |
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And it is changing perceptions over the strength of recovery that have also reshaped investor expectations. |
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The company reported strong profit margins in its fourth quarter results, although revenues were below expectations. |
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Compaq, which employs 2,100 people in Ireland, provided some positive news by beating dour Wall Street expectations and returning a profit. |
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And God also seems to have the highest expectations of us, not settling for second-best or letting sleeping dogs lie. |
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If we think of the average 18 th-century male as being a condescending misogynist, then Johnson confounds our expectations. |
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Ultimately, it ended up exceeding the expectations of all but the most ridiculously optimistic. |
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I had such low expectations that the film rose above my assumptions of banality. |
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I think I might have let those expectations get on top of me a little and I've probably made a rod for my own back. |
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People waiting for little green men in flying saucers should not get their expectations up. |
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The producers know how to subvert the romantic-comedy genre to suit their needs, taking wry digs at the anxieties and expectations of both sexes. |
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When you have children, it becomes all about living up to their expectations. |
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These Centres will work with communities under terms and conditions based on articulated contractual arrangements and expectations. |
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The simple graphic, though it may perpetuate the hopes and expectations of unemployed roughnecks and roustabouts, masks a more complex story. |
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Bring your own loo roll, along with low expectations, when using the facilities. |
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This was my first time baking rugalach, and this recipe surpassed my expectations. |
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More importantly, it reflects the lowering of all our aspirations and expectations. |
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The experts are better able to assimilate information, based on their expectations from the mental model. |
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It is the concern of the bank that prices have bombed along despite expectations to the contrary, he said. |
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It is quite usual for 90 per cent of the films to bomb at the box office for not being up to the expectations. |
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In the art of presidential politics naming a running mate is greeted with great expectations. |
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The contract forming a union of two people with its many attendant legal benefits, rules and expectations must be recorded. |
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The authors attributed this inconsistency to the two cultures' different expectations for children's behaviour. |
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Hitchcock seems disinterested in the relationship, tacking it on to fulfill audience expectations. |
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However, expectations are extremely high for the year ahead such that three of four repair shops are expecting sales to increase. |
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We exceeded all our expectations in getting to the final, but it was gutting to finish as losers. |
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Their wives have become spoiled, take their efforts for granted and have unrealistic expectations. |
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This type of leadership involves microscopic perceptions and macroscopic expectations. |
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Consumers like it best when the automakers package the features to reflect the buyers' expectations. |
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Even without the should and will distinction, expectations regarding tangibles are consistently low in people-based industries. |
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We've already had in excess of twenty people audition, and I'd say the average level of talent is in excess of our expectations. |
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I brought in a silk saree that represented the ambivalence I have about certain cultural and gender expectations. |
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Far from it, Revelation is an inspired piece of writing in which God speaks to our hearts and raises our hopes and expectations. |
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Our culture is saturated with stereotypical expectations for both girls and boys. |
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When the city was declared a tax-free zone, there were equally high expectations. |
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And backed by this powerful strength we can accomplish achievements beyond our expectations. |
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My expectations were aroused by the implied metaphor, but the cover is ultimately a tease, and by page four I found myself loathing the book. |
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He also looked at how our expectations of what the new technologies would do for our lives had been frustrated. |
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Other than the enjoyment of staying with family, it was an interesting experience of tedium, or rather of low expectations. |
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We're living in an era of greatly diminished expectations for heroes and further diminished standards for manhood among mere mortals. |
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Family obligations, too much debt, unrealistic expectations, all of it can cause tension and stress. |
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Customers' satisfaction scores were based on their perceptions of companies' prices, quality, and ability to meet expectations. |
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Despite my rude disappointment as a child, I turned out a balanced person with realistic expectations. |
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Parties interview candidates, but no amount of scouting insures that they can play to expectations. |
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In the financial marketplace, the value of a stock can be driven up or down by expectations for the future. |
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Such a distinction reflects the importance of society's expectations about marriage, and, more importantly, about marriageable age. |
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Lateral thinking skills allow employees to keep setting the bar higher and exceeding expectations. |
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He still enjoys confounding expectations, corrupting the stereotype of the ageing thesp. |
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They found that the couples whose expectations matched their relationship skills were most satisfied. |
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All 10 of our major combat divisions are ahead of expectations for retention of soldiers. |
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Things will even out now that teams are playing more teams outside of their divisions, and the preseason expectations will look more viable. |
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Despite being mauled by critics, it managed to exceed box office expectations in its opening weekend. |
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School sports are not for the bashful, and privacy expectations are limited. |
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He has very high hopes for the band and they are currently working hard in the belief that they can beat their own target of expectations. |
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There are many areas in which expectations differ over the practice of medicine. |
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I suspect meditating on this idea might relieve me of some of my day-to-day anxiety derived from my high expectations of my own performance. |
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The expectations are not always met and we always want to believe that we are at the receiving end of a bad deal all the time. |
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The author's thorough and captivating depiction of nursing from stateside general hospitals to overseas battlefronts surpasses all expectations. |
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The expectations of both patients and evaluators may thus have biased the results. |
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These self-images and expectations seem quite normal to us, patterned as they are after the traumatic attachment patterns of childhood. |
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Cultural stereotypes, expectations and self-images play a significant role in the vicious circle of poverty. |
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Organizational culture establishes norms and expectations of how people should be treated and serve the needs of the organization. |
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This year, they bore the weight of many expectations, and it may rather have crushed them. |
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The tilt raises our expectations of what we will see when the camera stops. |
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These documents provide substantial insight into the agency's long-term expectations, especially with regard to audit trails and time stamps. |
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But government funding methods don't always mesh with real world expectations. |
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Adolescents have had a raw deal out of a government which heaps expectations on them which they can't meet. |
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At the end of the 19th century, people were full of hope and expectations of a more peaceful, more contented, less bellicose world. |
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Job losses too had a look of inevitability about then, but the two hundred and thirty plus was well above general expectations. |
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She hopes that this will help them to locate the loan that beseems their expectations. |
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Conversely, they believe tracking can doom non-gifted pupils to low expectations and exclusion. |
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For example, is it the impact of long hours, or is it the contrast between expectations and reality? |
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However everyone involved in the project pulled it off above and beyond even the highest of expectations. |
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Unlike the minstrel who sings freely, with his audience joining in, Spenser now has to deal with the expectations of his audience. |
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I don't want to big it up too much, as then the whole experience might fail to meet my expectations. |
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The problem with success too often is it creates expectations, or even misconceptions among critics and fans alike. |
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And my sense from watching unemployment claims and inflation expectations is that the misery index is set to get worse, not better. |
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But in spite of the misleadingness of such expectations, they nevertheless exist. |
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On the other hand, consumers have long since become wise to the tricks of visual designers, and adjust their expectations accordingly. |
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The effect was to throw prices and expectations into chaos when stocks were short. |
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Anger triggers are situations in which expectations of fair play are violated. |
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Maybury took advantage of their weak expectations for this and arranged an air raid on London, one misty, rainy night. |
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As prices go up, people who currently hold Bitcoins develop greater and greater expectations for the currency. |
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If so, that is far beyond my expectations, and no doubt a bitter blow to Democrats who harbored fantasies of retaking the chamber. |
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Every administration seems to reach its own modus vivendi, squaring expectations with realities between the policy and intelligence communities. |
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My expectations were tainted with scenes from the old black and white war flics. |
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The further that respectable society shuns the children, the more they follow the only route open to them and fulfil all negative expectations. |
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Thus the expectations regarding the strength of sexual selection for polygyny, polyandry, and monogamy are fairly simple. |
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If the coach continually voices such limited expectations then his players are unlikely to raise their sights very much higher. |
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What we found when we dined there two weekends ago measured up to our expectations in every way. |
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Changing family structures, such as the emergence of blended families, have further obscured set expectations for male providers. |
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Part of his job, he says, is to keep the expectations of the fans in check, something that he singularly failed to do when he was manager. |
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By the time you are old enough to visit the place, your expectations of it are unattainably high. |
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It is true that many of us became involved in the feminist movement with unrealistic expectations of bonded sisterhood. |
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This is where those teams who arrived in Portugal unburdened by expectations of returning home with a trophy are at a possible advantage. |
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The difference is, though, now that the administration itself is actually doing a very uncelebrated job of tamping down expectations. |
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It's still to be determined what kind of moxie Rodgers has when faced with expectations. |
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But what she wanted had become so convoluted with previously unconfessed expectations that Rachel wasn't certain what it entailed any longer. |
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The problem with this definition of expectations is that it muddles customers' judgments and their estimates of probability. |
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While the film is making respectful money, the trades seem to report that it is underachieving according to expectations. |
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For those who train the staff of multichannel contact centers, the implications of these changes in customer expectations are significant. |
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It is hard to underemphasize the tension between autocratic church structures and the everyday expectations of most parishioners. |
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Slowly, holding her breath, feeling her stomach turn with bleak expectations, she walked across the room to the operating slab. |
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A healthy body image means wanting to look and feel good while avoiding unrealistic expectations. |
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The means may well have undershot her individual expectations for championship glory, but the ends were pure sweetness. |
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It is an unenviable task, yet it is a vital one if a modern healthcare system is to be delivered and patient expectations are to be met. |
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I'm listening now to the Concerto, which always seemed to be hobbled by unexpressed expectations. |
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A unique romantic comedy, unfettered by the normal expectations of the genre, is a rare and wondrous thing. |
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Projections made on the back of a good year in 2004 will raise unfulfillable expectations in gullible consumers. |
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He uses extremely creative images of the devil and demons in order to slyly subvert our expectations. |
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For Senaka, and tens of thousand others like him in Sri Lanka, the restoration of the service raised expectations that are still unmet. |
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Many of our relationships are burdened by expectations, desires, hidden fears and unquestioned assumptions. |
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Now we demand that our celebrities shoulder that burden, saddling them with our hopes and the heavy weight of our often unreal expectations. |
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More recent comments have drifted in the direction of the threat to social partnership being created by unreal pay expectations. |
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By proclaiming that mothers are the best option for the children in every case, they are set up for unreal expectations. |
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This was partly because of the unreal expectations that had been built up beforehand, and to which we in the media undoubtedly contributed. |
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Rushed consultation and planning inevitably lead to unreal expectations, delays in implementation, and failure to deliver planned benefits. |
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Part of the problem with the parliament is, as commentator Iain McWhirter says, naive idealism and, after a 300-year break, unreal expectations. |
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And Krissi is the perfect solution for people like me, who have unreal expectations about their capabilities. |
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With an abundance of crises and challenges do we have unrealistic expectations of our corporate leaders? |
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When you lay out your expectations, your bottom line, then you give the man a concrete thing to respond to. |
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Rather did their solution become more urgent as public expectations rose and were transformed into spontaneous and unsanctioned actions. |
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The slate had to be cleaned of all bourgeois conventions, traditions and expectations. |
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Made a nice snipe hunt Wednesday, expectations were low since my friend had struck out last week. |
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We are not doing it in order to conform with societal norms or expectations. |
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He was making a mockery of how our society works and our expectations. |
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Changing the medical profession from one that is paternalistic to one that is self aware and quickly responsive to society's expectations is a difficult assignment. |
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In this paper, it is demonstrated, via a counterexample, that E-stability generally does not imply learnability of rational expectations equilibria. |
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Indeed, they mistrust women, whom they see as enforcers of middle-class earning expectations they cannot meet. |
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The administration is, however, keeping expectations for enrollment numbers comparatively modest this time around. |
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If this happens, Bulgaria will become a country in which expectations are based on what has been achieved rather than on unfading faith in miracles. |
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From there, the company continued to do exceedingly well, likely beyond any of their initial expectations. |
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Too often we hear people in modern sport trying to take the pressure off themselves by lowering expectations, inflating the life raft in case things go wrong. |
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For my littlest brother, 24, my parents have given up their traditional expectations. |
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In the earnings report, it lowered expectations for sales growth and profits margins in the coming year. |
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We laid it on the line to the players just what our expectations were, and offered to release anyone from their contracts who didn't buy into our vision. |
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Call it horror lite, or fright by numbers, but this sub-genre has become fairly predictable, even by the standards of a genre that often trades on meeting our expectations. |
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In Storytelling, he unflinchingly confronts politically correct expectations of ethnic groups and the disabled, but also has the courage to do so with humor. |
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Depending on demand and expectations, the event might have even been ticketed. |
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The red pepper and goat's cheese tart lived up to expectations. |
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When I was a kid, the circus never really lived up to my expectations. |
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Being a rookie athlete requires you to leave a world of familiarity, where you've established credibility, to step into a new realm of high expectations. |
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Despite what people see in him, Rick has no desire to fulfill their expectations. |
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So while expectations are optimistic, any dates, at least for the time being, should be fungible and are not set in stone. |
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I am convinced that the low expectations of the citizenry are rooted, in part, in the way logical positivism has vastly exaggerated the role of the expert. |
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Marr acknowledges that, in shedding pivotal players and considerable sums from both the playing budget and debt, his club must also shed expectations. |
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In my view, they should do, as the lower the expectations the better. |
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The expectations have certainly changed since I arrived, but there are some good teams in this division and no-one is going to run away with the league this year. |
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If you can't see yourself doing much typing on a touchscreen, the iPad's keyboard will exceed your expectations. |
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Joe enjoys the sexual sway she holds over men, toying with their preconceived expectations in order to satisfy her appetite. |
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If we could adapt our image and actions to blend in with the pale landscape of suburban life, then we could escape the trap of family obligation and expectations. |
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In addition to the second-hand traumatization of hearing hour upon hour of human misery, there are expectations that accompany such intimate sharing. |
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Profit expectations fell eight points to a 10-year low of 2 percent. |
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Sure, if Romney finishes below 40 percent the media will moan and groan that he failed to meet expectations. |
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Common partners can serve as referral agents and relay expectations and responsibilities as part of the process of bringing together two hitherto unconnected firms. |
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Three experiments assessed four variables that may affect verbal irony processing: people’s expectations of events, event outcome, evaluations of outcome, and shared common ground. |
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What he has delivered is a powerful and solid opera, beautifully attuned to the expectations of its audience, challenging but never going too far, involving and magical. |
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Bradford supermarket giant Morrisons today warned annual profits would be substantially below expectations as trading flagged at unconverted Safeway stores. |
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Despite Euro elite expectations, Italian voters have not meekly submitted to foreign-imposed austerity. |
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All proteges and all mentors are required to articulate individual expectations and goals through a process of open dialogue that results in this binding agreement. |
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It is therefore important for speech writers to recognise the fact that, whatever they scribble, should tally with the audience or expectations of the listeners. |
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Given the tangle of alliances and expectations, this led to war. |
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Nothing is truly comparable to this Russian holiday based on unfounded expectations and ungrounded hopes culminating in one night of absolute happiness. |
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So another summer slips by with Yorkshire flattering to deceive in knockout cricket, the high expectations of the first half of the season suddenly evaporating into thin air. |
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Some people whose expectations go awry never do get back on their feet. |
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And then, of course, not even an hour passed before he slithered down to those expectations and buckled. |
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The program began to teeter under the weight of its own outsized expectations, questionable staffing decisions, and naivete. |
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Men are more likely to have unrealistic expectations that they would succeed, rather than fail, in this Hobbesian state. |
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Whether maintaining greens, tees, approaches or fairways, the triplex mower has the ability to deliver results that meet golf course superintendents' high expectations. |
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And through him, millet has a perfect vehicle for her dark, understated wit and tendency to upend narrative expectations. |
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Guitarist Jeremy Hora spoke prior to show time about his bandmates, the pressure of living up to the expectations of such a successful debut, and his love for Gordie Johnson. |
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That is why this new year presents a crucial opportunity to get beyond managerialism, targets and struggling to catch up with public expectations. |
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A key issue is the mismatch between expectations and what this economic system is delivering. |
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The first was using multilevel curriculum, which called for students to learn the same curriculum content but with different expectations for outcome. |
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He was a Rorschach test, vaulted into the presidency by positive perceptions and unrealistic expectations. |
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With substantial on-screen competition from cable and satellite as well as terrestrial broadcasters, expectations of the BBC have never been higher. |
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Unfortunately, it only takes one divorce-related or estate sale to shift expectations lower in a step function. |
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But Pawlenty then ran out of money after not meeting expectations in the Ames straw poll, so he dropped out of the race. |
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The stock market has been buoyant, and interest rates have been rising in part because of expectations of higher economic growth. |
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The results from these studies are generally consistent with theoretical expectations of higher genetic diversity in tetraploids than their diploid progenitors. |
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In fact, the scene was a rather optimistic one, centering on pride that Lonegan had outperformed initial expectations. |
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While all of the above-mentioned strategies take into account expectations for future market returns, not all of the strategies account for investment risk tolerance. |
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The result in all three cases is a chasm between image and performance that magnifies the narrative of dashed expectations. |
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Deepening the money pit were the expectations of corrupt government officials and adoption facilitators. |
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But although the Assembly had been regarded with high expectations in 1917, once it had been dispersed the mass of the population had abandoned it as an ideal. |
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Instead of substantively responding to these failed expectations, the ACE takes a spin-cycle approach. |
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The empirical debates have to do with such topics as monetarism, Keynesianism, inflation, market structure, rational expectations, and efficient institutions. |
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Both Milton Friedman's theory of monetarism and the rational expectations school of macroeconomics challenged the effectiveness of activist monetary policy. |
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The sandwich was well up to expectations and this was followed by a warm and very fresh fruit scone which crumbled as we spread it with strawberry jam and cream. |
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The whiskey beat his expectations but didn't match his own collection. |
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There are 75 million boomers, representing a lot of angst, unmet expectations, and fading dreams. |
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His mother cast him off because he did not meet her expectations. |
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Once we have this information we will prepare a quotation with the aim of trying to ensure your aims and expectations are exceeded whilst remaining within your budget. |
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Eventually, Peter moves into the house too, also shared by a slightly loopy spinster, Miss Byron, and the pair feel free to reject society's expectations by acting up. |
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They think they will irreparably damage them, so instead of raising expectations, they coddle them. |
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In last summer's protests, that third began to coil the revolutionary energy of its frustrated expectations. |
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Once upon a time, books were meant to upset the apple cart, to make politicians nervous, threaten the status quo, shake up our expectations, make us question things anew. |
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One step too far, and ambition turns into unrealistic expectations, compulsion into craziness. |
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But the fun of reading Lennon is in his outright refusal to conform to expectations. |
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He may be an exception, but his example proves that grace can confound the expectations and machinations of curial politics. |
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You are converging two events that are freighted with expectations, essentially doubling your risk of disaster. |
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Though volunteers expected all kinds of difficulties the language barrier broke all of Shen's expectations, despite having a good command of English. |
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According to Illich, doctors had medicalized various aspects of life, including ageing, death, pain, patients' expectations, and healing and preventive therapies. |
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It has forced us to lower our sights, and curtail our expectations. |
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Without expectations of the big dramatic event or the boffo laugh, the rhythm of the voice makes manifest a yearning that might be spiritual or romantic. |
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Weekend breaks seldom exceed expectations by such a wide margin. |
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They completed everything from engines-running offloads to blackout night-vision airdrops, with results exceeding the expectations of even the most enthusiastic crew members. |
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Christmas is of no use to anyone if it is an excuse for people to play at being petty tyrants, a danger especially in blended families where expectations differ. |
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The senior and junior Welsh teams exceeded all expectations by collecting eight gold medals, 15 silvers and seven bronzes at the Culinary World Cup. |
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No law or even revolution in police tactics can fully curb the rising expectations that come with a wired world. |
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Lewis and Clarke, has entirely fulfilled my expectations in setting it on foot, and that the world will find that those travellers have well earned its favor. |
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We see Annie Allen grow from childhood to womanhood in an atmosphere conditioned by poverty, racial discrimination, parental expectations, and unhappiness. |
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The Simpsons really does defy all expectations in terms of the normal lifespan. |
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Still, expectations are high, given that the series is based on a work by one of the most deified literary figures of our time. |
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Even if you were raised in a single-parent family, you'll have learnt from the relationships your parent was in, or developed expectations about what being alone is like. |
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Confusion about what is and is not within the legitimate scope of medicine risks leading the profession into a future full of unmet expectations and knotty ethical quandaries. |
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In particular, they have inappropriate expectations concerning their infants' development, tending to overestimate or underestimate motoric and linguistic capabilities. |
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More than merely instilling a positive attitude, cognitive-behavioral therapy teaches patients to reframe their expectations about what will happen if they exert themselves. |
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His strategy is to play down expectations for a breakthrough while hinting with ever increasing menace that the longer it takes the harder it will be to end the deadlock. |
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Perhaps the expectations are too high, but I wanted a little more oomph. |
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It is obvious that much depends upon the psychology of the merchants and other traders, and particularly on their expectations as to the course of markets. |
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These expectations are often narrow, oversimplified, and quite rigid. |
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Gideon Gaye's follow-up, Hawaii, confounded all those expectations but still managed to serve up a generous dose of thoughtful, evocative tunes, done to a turn. |
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My beef is the lack of communication that often fosters false expectations in patients, who then blame the local doctors when things turn out worse than they hoped. |
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The inherent nature of this drive to conform to societal expectations remains unapparent to consumers, allowing them the perception of free choice rather than coercion. |
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It goes back to that series of great expectations, the Jim Palmer syndrome. |
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As a result, reporting and public expectations suffered a dreadful, anti-climatic slump. |
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Alan, Jed's older brother, is a lawyer in their father's Toronto firm, hating his profession but saddled with the expectations of his disapproving you-know-who. |
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There must be a frank, honest dialogue with the public at large, so that society as a whole learns to have realistic expectations and to accept that death is part of life. |
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Darn my parents for their early starts in their careers and their relationship together, setting me up with these ridiculous aspirations and expectations! |
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But behind the scenes, senate aides have been tamping down expectations for a quick fix. |
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Markets would have to defend against the possibility of a strong report reigniting October taper expectations. |
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With expanding medical expectations, and ever expanding possibilities for cures for hitherto untreatable conditions, if money were no object, the sky might be the limit. |
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One explanation might be that investors in stocks have poor expectations of Democratic administrations and heightened expectations of Republican administrations. |
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While the story, the script, and the five ornate zoomorphic initials accord well with our expectations of the elite Komnenian book culture, the images seem incongruous. |
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Wanting to avoid more negative reaction, the performer will adjust his performance to conform to audience expectations. |
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Bradbrook, provided a more vivid sense of how Jonson's work was shaped by the expectations of his time. |
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In a friendship, reciprocity occurs where the contribution of each party meets the expectations of the other party. |
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In many cases we have found a significant gap between consumer expectations and reality, but we believe seamlessness is achievable. |
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Lucas is well known for his investigations into the implications of the assumption of the rational expectations theory. |
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Shares in shop chain Tie Rack fell yesterday as the company warned profits were unlikely to meet expectations for the half year. |
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Despite these gendered expectations in the literary world, Martineau strongly expressed her opinions on a variety of topics. |
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The former problem student surpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination. |
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The key is to lower expectations, and Vick was only raising them. |
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Full of genuinely funny moments and ludicrous brain-teasers, they have surpassed many expectations. |
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However, traditional formulations of unmet expectations implicitly treat only undermet expectations or unpleasant surprises. |
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In the Whedonverse, who is willing and able to become a hero often defies two-dimensional thinking or traditional expectations. |
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Mr Coppel said the start of the new year had been promising with trading in line with expectations for the first two months. |
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