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How to use the word Expectation in a Sentence?

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Spirited debate and the free expression of ideas cannot flourish in an atmosphere of turmoil and instability, what is at stake is the expectation that any member of this body, whoever that might be, has a duty to strive to maintain decorum so that the people’s work, the work of all Montanans, can be accomplished.

David Bedey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is part of a long process since the summer. There was expectation that rents would fall and that didn’t happen. Rents peaked last summer. Every month since then, they’ve been moving sideways, with a modest increase, it was just enough to set a new record.

Jonathan Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s some expectation for Brazil and China to sign a joint statement around the climate crisis.

Renato Ungaretti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As an athlete, you don’t want to show any weakness, i knew that there was … a lot of expectation on me at this point in my career. So I just felt like I always wanted to just live up to the expectation more from pursuing a standard of excellence, but maybe also just from my whole life being a girl in the sport.

Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In a world full of options; why limit yourself to having an expectation.

Freddy Gomez

added by freddy2gomez
1 year ago

The deposit insurance scheme in the US is significantly more generous than in Europe, and there is a growing expectation that the US Treasury will move swiftly to fully guarantee deposits if more banks turn insolvent.

Susannah Streeter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It really is going to be this expectation that you are going to need to borrow something to get through college, it’s like that perfect storm.

Elizabeth Shermer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As far as any sort of expectation or prediction, I want them to have fun. I want them to play well. I want them to bring excitement that everybody’s talked about, but I have a feeling, knowing the coaches in the sporting department, failure is not an option.

Carolyn Kindle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This expectation is becoming more visible in the growing number of companies resorting to layoffs as a hedge against a potential economic slowdown, people who are laid off pull back on spending, and even those who are still employed may begin to do the same due to worries about losing their job, thus potentially sending consumer spending into a downward spiral.

George Ratiu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There has been an expectation that [inflation] will go away quickly and painlessly; I don’t think it’s guaranteed that’s the base case, it will take some time.

Federal Reserve

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think Biden’s political situation is stronger not weaker after the midterm because the expectation was Bill Clinton would lose Democratic House by more and would lose the Senate as well.

Pete Wehner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That is the worry: That you get turmoil in financial markets, a big tightening in financial conditions and that adds to downward pressure on economic activity, that is certainly the worry. It’s not our expectation.

Jan Hatzius

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This year, we’ve continued to see flock depopulations throughout the entire year, and there’s an expectation that we’ll continue to see it into 2023.

Brian Earnest

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry—or laugh.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

No one could've predicted Fetterman would have a stroke and would be well ahead if people didn't have reservationsabout his health, warnock and Kelly are very strong, and my expectation is that they can win their races. When it comes to Mandela Barnes, it was clear that he was vulnerable on crime — which is Ron Johnson's major emphasis — but I wouldn't call him a weak candidate like a Walker or Masters.

Jessica Tarlov

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While I supported much of the Justice in Policing Act, I did not favor the language on Qualified Immunity, i voted to forward the legislation to the Senate with the hope and expectation that negotiations would generate a compromise.

Dean Phillips

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People's data is being used without their consent to put them into a box and try to manipulate them into not just buying something, but voting for a particular person or changing their beliefs about a particular issue, people have a reasonable expectation to be able to engage in specific interests without being wantonly targeted by political campaigns because of that.

Samuel Woolley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't know the answer to that, my expectation, as I said before, is that anything we put on the floor would be at 60 votes, and there aren't 60 votes, probably for anything at the moment on either side.

John Thune

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My expectation is that Apple will probably have to nudge prices up.

Ben Wood

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's so stressful now because every match I play, I'm kind of expecting to play so good, such a clean performance is not realistic in a sport like this where you're playing day in, day out. I probably have to lower the expectation of playing like it's a Wimbledon final every time. There are so many capable players who can play.

Nick Kyrgios

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Should we actually go into a recession, policymakers don't have the appetite to do the standard things we've done in the past, there's not much expectation that Congress will respond.

Chad Stone

Found on CNN
1 year ago

State of the Union, i assume that is being undertaken, and I have every expectation that it will be shared with us. So I look forward to that.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Country Music Biggest Night will without a doubt live up to Country Music Biggest Night expectation this year, during an evening when we celebrate the best of the best in Country Music, we are thrilled to have two award-winning hosts at the helm ! I can not wait to see what Luke Bryan and Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning have up Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning sleeves, which I'm sure will be hilariously unpredictable and playfully energetic, just like the two of them.

Sarah Trahern

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I expected myself to contend and win again this year, so to be able to do it this late in the season when you’re running out of tournaments and you put that type of expectation on yourself, it’s so satisfying.

Tony Finau

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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